Black
Brasserie de Bellevaux in Malmedy, Liège, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout Regular|
Score
6.68
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A dark black beer with a creamy head. Dry touches of coffee (roasted malt) that explain the bitter sip at the end.
The beer was born from a taste memory. A memory of a tour of Yorkshire in the 1970s, and of beers like Theakston’s Old Peculier. Black was developed with British brewmaster Ian Ward from the inspirational experiences of 30 years ago. With Ardennes spring water, Belgian malts, English hops, a slightly higher alcohol content, lightly carbonated and brewed the English way: the perfect example of a mixed marriage.
The beer was born from a taste memory. A memory of a tour of Yorkshire in the 1970s, and of beers like Theakston’s Old Peculier. Black was developed with British brewmaster Ian Ward from the inspirational experiences of 30 years ago. With Ardennes spring water, Belgian malts, English hops, a slightly higher alcohol content, lightly carbonated and brewed the English way: the perfect example of a mixed marriage.
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6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Black Cuvee Speciale: This beer is the regular Black which is available in 33cl bottles and cask available only between October to April. They referment and re-badge the beer, unfiltered, into 75cl bottles for the following Christmas period only. Very dark brown, nearly black in colour, the tan head sitting proud on top. Hops are Fuggles and the malts a blend of many, but mostly Pale Ale ones. The nose is fairly weak, some roasted/toasted/burnt malts being the main aromas. Those malts mentioned in the smell give the flavours a burnt feel and adds to the bitterness from the Fuggles hops that the brewer wanted (in his quest to produce a Belgian ’Old Perculiar’, with consultation with Theakstons). Bottled 27th September 2010, drank and reviewed on 18th December 2010.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2012
at 23:21
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. It’s a clear, dark reddish brown beer, with a finger-thick, dense, beige head on top. The aroma has some notes of coffee, but is mostly lightly roasted and with dried fruits. Caramel and a lightly roasted maltyness in the flavor. Medium body. Quite weak and short finish with roasted malts. I think they’re pushing it a bit naming the beer Black, judging from both color, aroma and flavor, but it’s a decent one anyway. 110826
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2012
at 03:22
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is licorice, berries, malt, yeast. Flavour is sweet, licorice, roasted malt, yeast, alcohol, berries. Medium body. OK beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2012
at 01:11
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle looks really good. Beer in the glass very dark, almost black. Dry-malty aroma. Starts mild-malty, modest roasty-smokey. Malty notes get more and more intense, also more roasty. Finish dry-roasty, hints of cacao. Not bad!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2011
at 21:59
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Dark red, almost black beer with firm, lasting, pillowy tan head. Aroma is rather restrained but burned malts, coffee, liquorice, anis and some smoke. Carbonation rather light. Flavour slightly sweet, bitter (burned malts bitter). Coffee, liquorice, some chocolate. Bit of smoke. Bit reminding of a stout too, maybe because of the pillowy head and low carbonation. Finish dry and rather mild, some malty coffee tones linger together with some smoke. Nice one.
(From 33cL bottle)
(From 33cL bottle)
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2011
at 15:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Color looks like copper a bit, kind of light amber. Don’t like the smell though the taste isn’t really bad. Medium carbo, low to medium body.
Tried
on 11 Jul 2011
at 02:47
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Pours black. Tan head. Nose of chlorinated soapy water, smoke, roast chocolate malt, hops and caramel. Taste is dry bitter baker’s chocolate, hops and chlorinated soapy water. Maybe some used coffee grounds. Body drops out of this like a stone. Odd concoction.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 May 2011
at 16:52
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
clear amber, huge smooth light brown head. aroma is licorice, rosted grains, dryness, faint sweet dark fruits. aroma is pretty much centered around licorice and roasted malts, much less around caramel and dark fruits. Still distinctly different from a porter or a stout. flavor is hard roasted malts, charchoal, licorice, dryness. sort of resembling the darkest bock’s i’ve tasted. ends a little bit sweeter than it starts out.
Tried
on 06 Mar 2011
at 08:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Bottle, 0.75 l as Bellevaux Black Cuvée Spéciale, at the 16th Kerstbierfestival) The beer poured almost black. Its head was quite large and light brown. Aroma had malts, liquorice and chocolate. Palate was full bodied and dryish with medium carbonation. Flavours were malts, roastedness, chocolate, liquorice, mildly sweetness, bit of hops and medium bitterness. Aftertaste was malty. Nice, tasty beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2010
at 10:50
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled (from beerplanet.eu). Ambery brown colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is dark dry fruits, some toffee, mild roasted notes as well as quite wooden notes. Flavour is roasted malts, some toffee, roasted notes, mild metal as well as wood and some caramel. Actually old ale is a quite good categorization for this Belgian beer...
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2010
at 05:24