Black Damnation
De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brouwerij De MolenStout - Imperial Series Out of Production
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Score
8.11
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This is the OG (original gangstah) of our Black Damnation series and the one that started it all. This beer is a blend of Struise Black Albert and De Molen Hel & Verdoemenis imperial stouts. Both beers on the very edge of darkness, of which the brewers' minds both sit on the verge of insanity.
Black Damnation is black as hell, filthy rich in the nose and boasts massive taste. This brew is the perfect marriage of the sweet, unxious flavors from Black Albert and the bitter charcoal and coffee profile from the Hel & Verdoemenis. Good luck finding some, the last batch was made in 2010!
50% of Black Albert was used with another 50% of H&V. Black coloured beer with just a sliver of a dark tan head. Aroma is glorious & full of coffee, brown sugar, dark fruity chocolate. Flavours of H&V are quite evident, charcoal and mineral notes, chocolate, cocoa powder. Good coffee chocolate finish with good balancing bitterness and hops & sugar in the after taste. 2009 vintage 12% abv 2010 vintage 13% abv.
Black Damnation is black as hell, filthy rich in the nose and boasts massive taste. This brew is the perfect marriage of the sweet, unxious flavors from Black Albert and the bitter charcoal and coffee profile from the Hel & Verdoemenis. Good luck finding some, the last batch was made in 2010!
50% of Black Albert was used with another 50% of H&V. Black coloured beer with just a sliver of a dark tan head. Aroma is glorious & full of coffee, brown sugar, dark fruity chocolate. Flavours of H&V are quite evident, charcoal and mineral notes, chocolate, cocoa powder. Good coffee chocolate finish with good balancing bitterness and hops & sugar in the after taste. 2009 vintage 12% abv 2010 vintage 13% abv.
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8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, courtesy of Toni Fluekiger, BB March 2015 - First vintage from 2010. Pours super dark brown. Aroma is strong bourbon and vanilla, some booze, coffee and chocolate. Body is heavy, but with a low but fizzy carbonation not the strong sugar bomb it could be. Sweet with only a little roast or bitterness. Palate is long lingering sweetness, continuing all the flavours. Very, very nice, ages with grace.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2016
at 15:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Deep black body. Brown creamy head. Aroma of molasses, chocolate, red wine, ... Heavily sweet, moderately bitter flavour. Especially intensity bitter in the after taste. Heavily bodied.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2016
at 14:41
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Lukt: Kirsebær, mørk sjokolade og vanilje.
Utseende: Mørk rødbrun, tilnæmret sort.
Skum/kullsyre: Lite skum, tynn ring langs kant.
Smak: En liten "sprudlende" smak i munnen, sjokolade med en herlig noe syrlig kirsebær avslutning som sitter.
Hvor: Kjøpt/Nydt@ØST, Stavanger sammen med Gorm.
Medium: Tapp@160ml, ABV@%, Når@09.09.2015
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Sep 2015
at 11:52
10/10
Aged divinely. Thanks. Menno. Shared at Ebenezer's tent town by me.
Tried
on 24 Aug 2015
at 14:25
9.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle thanks to 50Belair! Pours inky black, medium dark brown creamy head, slow to dissipate with nice lacing. So far, so good. Aroma is fudge brownies, molasses, roasted malts, cocoa powder, raisin, some coffee. Flavor is all of the above, quite sweet, light plus bitter, rich and decadent. Full body, creamy mouthfeel
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2015
at 01:44
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
330ml bottle at home, 13% ABV. Thanks Spiros!! Black color with nice creamy brown head. Aroma is roasted malty, light coffee, chocolate, nuts-hazelnuts, dark fruits, peat, leather. Taste is sweet and bitter, roasted malty again, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, dark fruity and nutty, light peated. Full body almost creamy with soft carbonation and long bittersweet nutty coffee and dark chocolate aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2015
at 15:00
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle, one of the 5 year olds they sold at Borefts this year. Beer came gushing out, shame some was lost. Probably infected. Delicious smell of roasted malt and cacao, but a bit sour as well. Taste was a bit of a lettdown, it didn’t age very well. Body somewhat thin, with a sour/sweet (infected) taste of malt and chocolate, the bitters got lost. I like the current BD series better. UPDATE. Had an uninfected as well, much better beer. Thick and heavy, with both sweet coffee and choco notes and bitter roasted malt and hop. Great beer. Rating is for the uninfected one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2014
at 03:52
9.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Collaboration between two of the most innovative micro breweries in the Low Countries and the starting point of a whole series of interesting black beers. Thick and mousse-like, dark beige head, colour uniformly and totally black, not allowing any light to shine through. Very complex and powerful aroma of coffee, cacao, dates, iron, cinnamon, peat, tobacco, dried plums, liquorice, ashes. Very thick, creamy and oily mouthfeel, almost ’chewable’, sweetish and profoundly malty, some iron, complex spicy notes of pepper, cinnamon and liquorice, in the end a more coffee-like toasted bitterness with aromatic hops and warm, lightly tingling, gin-like alcohol, very long and very complex. This is what happens if two already very profound beers are combined to perfection.
Tried
on 02 Aug 2014
at 06:15
9/10
Tried
on 17 Apr 2014
at 09:51
9/10
Tried
on 01 Feb 2014
at 22:29