Draught Guinness-type cream head, rather small, over jet-black beer. Dry grains, roasted grains, rust, ironoxide, meaty. Roast, roasted nuts. peanuts, chocolate, meatroast, sweet malts, ovomaltine. Finish is sweeter; slight stoutacidity. Chewy, feels bigger than its ABV would warrant. Soft carbonation, nitro-like. A (half)pint of plain!

Almost black, a head is quite big and beige. Aroma has roastiness and chocolate. Taste has roastiness, coffee, chocolate, hint of bitterness. Medium bodied. Balanced, nice chocolate.

Burk från Etre Gourmete. Disig coca colafärgad vätska med lågt skum. Rostad men ganska frisk lätt vetesyrlig doft. Lätt kropp, rostad smakbild med inte mjuk och rund utan pigg och kanske inte syrlig men frisk smak. Mörk frukt, mörk bröd, soja och en torrare eftersmak men mjöl, järntabletter och aska. Annorlunda och ok utan att riktigt övertyga

Dunkler, cremig malziger Beginn mit milden Beerennoten. Unterdurchschnittlich karbonisiert, moderate Herbe, schwache Aromen. Malzig-herb, kurzer Abgang. 9/7/8/8/12/8

Pours dark, chocolaty brown. Small ring of cream colored head. Smell is chocolate - the cheap kind. Taste is mildly bitter, cheap chocolate, fairly rich chocolaty ending. Very mild sweetness. bit wattery (OK for the ABV) , bit too high carbo as well.

33cl can. A very dark reddish brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of red berries, caramelized malt. Taste of caramelized malt, raisins, red fruits.

Opaque dark brown, small fizzy tan head, mostly diminishing. Aroma toasted malt, cocoa, coffee, caramel, dark fruit. Taste medium sweet and light bitter, light sourish undertone, roasty notes, malty, milk chocolate, dark fruit. Medium body, watery to oily texture, soft carbonation, sweetbitter aftertaste, sourish undertone stays, fruity and spicy notes, complex brew but easy to drink, good.

25/VII/20 - 33cl can from a trade, shared @ Social Distanced BBQ, BB: II/2021 (2020-683) Thanks to sebletitje and Bierridder_S for the trade!

Clear dark brown beer, huge fizzy aery irregular crackling beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: grains, hay, caramel, lots of malts, cow fodder, very rural character. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: very malty start, grains, caramel, some milk chocolate, bit fruity, nice roast. Aftertaste: malty, grains, cow fodder, slightly sourish, sweet touch, good one!

Porter made with not just roasted barley, but roasted wheat as well, something you do not often see, not even in craft beer, from this exciting young brewing project in Brussels. 'Taupe', the French word for mole, is also used in French as the name of a dark grey-brown colour similar to the colour of the mole's fur, hence the name. Creamy, very regular, deep yellow-beige, quite thick but slowly opening head, eventually reduced to a waferthin ring on a very dark chocolate brown beer, approaching black but not quite, with ruddy-bronze, hazy edges. Aroma of fondant chocolate bars, cappuccino, iron shavings, pecan nut pie, roasted hazelnuts, brown bread, dried figs, almond, hints of liquorice, dry earth, prunes, dough, nougat, cigar ashes - and a whiff of reduced gravy after adding the sediment. Sweetish onset, lightly estery with blue plum- and fig-like notes, sourish undertone which develops further later on (the wheat, no doubt) and is initially slightly accentuated by spritzy, yet nowhere harsh carbonation; toffeeish, brown-bready and black-chocolatey malts, bittersweet but quickly shifting to coffee powder-like roasted bitterness more than lingering sweetness, yet this bitterness remains soft enough to still qualify as a porter rather than a stout (ignoring the continuum between both terms). Ends roasty, chocolatey and coffeeish with a spicy hop twist and lingering yeasty bready aspects; all the way, there is a metallic aspect, that eventually remains longer than expected. A tad too metallic and perhaps even a little bit too yeasty, but generally speaking, this is a very easily drinkable and enjoyable offering, with the wheat adding an underlying sourish streak that actually fits well into the whole. La Source in general remains a brewery to watch if you are into U.S. style craft brewing in Belgium, but this may not be their most impressive achievement so far - at least compared with many of their other beers.

33cl can (5,4%, IBU 22) from La Source (BBF: 12/10/2020). F: medium, tanned, good retention. C: black, opaque. A: rich malty, roasted tones, chocolate, bit coffee, caramel. T: medium malty base, light roasted tones, coffee, chocolate, bit dark dried fruits, cocoa, soft carbonation, more on the sweet side yet very good, fully enjoyed.