33 cL bottle. from 2005. Pours dark brown with a diminished light brown head. Mild chocolate malt aroma. Solid metallic and roasted malt flavour. Slight oxidised flavour too. Lingers into the finish with a smooth chocolate note, but also some oxidised flavours.

Bottle: Poured a dark black brown with a tan to light brown color head. Aroma is a fruit filled with sweet liquorice candy. Taste is a sweet burnt malt, also has that candy style sweetener taste. Another original beer by Brouwerij de Bie which makes it interesting pick up to say the least.

Towering yellow-brown head leaving fine lace over near-black beer with red lining and some interesting blobs. Heavy, fruity nose, both with blackcurrant and with citrus fruit drops from the childrens’ sweet shop. Extremely estery-fruity laden nose, but not all natural. Bit of liquorice and very faintly lactic. Not sweet, dry, woody and liquorice flavour, even ink. Like a stout made from liquorice wood, with a dash of lactic acid and burnt malts. I cannot perceive other spices as indicated on the label, or it ought to be vanilla. Empty palate, definitely its worst feature; "false" filling by sugars. Despite a lot of weaknesses, it still remains a rather original brew. And very rare - BeerMania, indeed. I have reclassified it as a sweet stout, ’cause that’s what it is.