Tough Cookie
Brussels Beer Project in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout Special|
Score
6.95
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This stout has a biscuity malt base full of body, a low bitterness, spicy touch from the speculoos & creamy mouthfeel. A great beer for this fall weather.
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Tough Cookie from Brussels Beer Project 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Pastry stout dedicated to a 'biscuiterie' in Brussels, containing lactose and Christmas pudding spicing - so a very wintery offering from BBP. At Huzaar. Medium thick, irregularly edged, pale yellowish beige, stable head, jet black robe. Aroma of chestnut liqueur, hazelnut grounds, nutmeg and indeed 'speculoos', clove, cookie dough, milk powder, Christmas pudding for sure, caramel, bitter 'fondant' chocolate, cinnamon, liquorice. Sweet onset, not sticky though and quite clean with impressions of old raisins and dried figs, medium carbonated; light sourish undertone matching with sweeter, rounded, creamy lactose, hovering over a caramelly, dark-chocolatey middle, a bit toffeeish and syrupy, in the end well-spiced with clove, cinnamon and ginger accents, but also nutmeg. Light bitter-toasty and hoppy notes in the finish as well as some warming, gin-like alcohol; the 'speculoos' and Christmas pudding effects prevail, in a bittersweet, ethereally spicy way. Draws inspiration from both actual pastry stout (lactose, roasted grains) and Belgian Christmas 'Scotch' (spices), but the emphasis even seems to lie more on the latter than on the first; not really my thing, but interesting and solid enough.
IPARater72 (1339) reviewed Tough Cookie from Brussels Beer Project 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Dark brown pour with with a creamy, white/beige head. Aroma and tastes of cocoa/chocolate, speculoos, and malt/white bread. Probably a good thing that the speculoos is not too strong as this would be a sign of artifical flavouring.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Tough Cookie from Brussels Beer Project 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
33cl bottle. A very dark brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of intense speculatius, caramel, dark malt, chocolate. Taste of mid sweet dark malt, caramel, speculatius. Good!
MusingAnorak (11819) ticked Tough Cookie from Brussels Beer Project 3 years ago
Tom (2085) ticked Tough Cookie from Brussels Beer Project 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle thanks to markoijelena - cheers! Aroma is sweet and sugary with sour milk. Opaque cola brown. Creamy bubbly beige head. Medium bitter and spiced with a sharp sour berry streak. Underlying creamy sweetness. More ginger root than gingerbread. Light-medium bodied. A touch of creaminess to the mouthfeel. Average prickly carbonation. Long astringent finish. My second spiced dark beer of the night. This one at least doesn't contain mushed veg.
Bierridder (4318) ticked Tough Cookie from Brussels Beer Project 6 years ago
panzerxiii (3989) ticked Tough Cookie from Brussels Beer Project 6 years ago
Sebletitje (15877) reviewed Tough Cookie from Brussels Beer Project 6 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Draft @ BBP Taproom. Brune foncée, col blanc-cassé. Arôme au nez assez classique, stout mettant en avant qcq effluves épicées - surement du Spéculoos - dont des pointe de cannelles et léger rétro de sucre candi. Note des malts caramel, grillé, un peu crystal. Palais est malté, cara pils, pâle, Munich, pointes d'épices cannelle et clou de girofle, côté rappelant le pain d'épices, amertume fine se terminant sur un léger houblonné noble.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Tough Cookie from Brussels Beer Project 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl bottle from the brewery. F: big, tanned, quick gone. C: dark, opaque. A: a lot of coffee, chocolate, cocoa, bit lactic, dark dried fruits, dark caramel, toffee. T: medium malty base, chocolate, coffee, cocoa, bit dark fruits, toffee touch, bit more watery mouthfeel than I expected, weak bitterness, medium carbonation, nice, enjoyed.