8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

This is one HUGE beer. This is extreme beer!
Pours opaque brown, with little to no head...........oh but wait..........the head forms after i’me done pouring, almost like a nitro beer. The nose is very complex. Loads of dark fruit, (apples, figs, plums, cherries, raisins, berries) some burnt malt, and sugar, and lots of oak, with touches of oaky vanilla.
Flavor is sweet, as soon as it hits your palate, you get the sweetness, but then it tails off to a strong bitterness enrobbed with dark fruits, oak, and a semi bitter finish, with more of the oak vanilla, and alcohol. Wow, this is very robust beer, the mouthfeel is thick and viscous. This would easily last 15 years if kept properly, and it would easily benefit from some age.

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Taster on Black Christmas #7. Appearance: ugly murky pale brown. Aroma: sweet, dark fruits, some bourbon. Taste: along the same lines. Overall: good.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle thanks to Denise! Pours dark muddy brown with a small offwhite head. Aromas of caramel, dark fruits, vanilla, light nutty notes, booze. Taste has caramel, vanilla, dark fruits, light vinous tannic and subtle bitterness in the back.

8

No px z woda, figi, cukier, melasa... ciut malo mi ciala

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Many thanks to Erzengel for sharing! As The Bruery Papier. A black beer with a small tan head. Aroma of strong dark malt, riped dark fruits, oak. Taste of strong dark riped fruits, strong caramelish malt, chocolate, vanilla, oak, slightly boozy.

6.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5

75cl as Bruery Papier 2009. Great alcoholic woody whisky nose. The beer starts smooth and intense. Nearly no carbonation, intense with lots of wood and malt. In the aftertaste there is an intense sticky concentrated liquorice aroma with hints of salt. Very strange and nearly undrinkable, covering all other aroma. Sticky concentrated dry. The great beginning with its smooth bourbon barrel whiskey and the intense round rich malty basis ends in a sticky dry liquorice swamp. Moderate bitter with salty sticky liquorice in the end. No idea what happened here or if it should be like this (doesn't taste infected or something like this, probably only too old) but for me the complexity and fragile aroma are destroyed by the ending. Sad.

8.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9.5

Bruery’s second anniversary beer, vintage bottle at Bruery Sucre Tasting in Bierboom in Bruges. Thin, off-white, lacing head, quickly dissolving in the middle; translucent, coppery burgundy colour, misty. Intense and perfumey aroma of red wine, caramel, hazelnuts, wet oak, vanilla tannins, old madera, cranberry, blue plum, sherry, marmelade, rosehip. Intense, candied sweetness in the mouth paired with dried mushroom-like umami accents, brown sugar sweetness lingering but not cloying; thick but smooth caramelly and honeyish, lightly nutty malt sweetness leading to warming, brandy-like alcohol, quite strongly so and a bit wry, but not disturbing so much seen this beer’s great complexity; drying woodiness and lovely retronasal vanilla tannins make for a pleasant aftertaste. Great beer, but obviously much more a barley wine than an old ale.

5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Original vintage 750mL from WholeFoods, drunk 2/20/16.
Murky mahogany body is probably quite clear, though it’s not determinable. Dark beige head atop slowly but steadily fades to nothing.
Lots of chocolate, raisin, light toasted character and tons of prune and grapey-soy oxidation. The alcohol is certainly there, though not harsh/hot at this point. The chocolate-like malt character is pleasant enough but that’s about the only enjoyable aspect.
More of the same in the flavor, with low/loose carbonation, too much sweetness (since this is a Bruery beer) and lots of dirt, earth, prune and milk chocolate that just don’t go well together with the heavy cherry-vanilla notes. I don’t know how I ever liked old stouts/old ales/barleywines. They’re way too sweet/syrupy and boozey young and then you’ve gotta find a very small window before they’re flat and oxidized.

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Bottle 2011 vintage, thanks ClarkVV. Dirty brown color. Aroma is oxidation, wet cardboard, dark fruit and caramel.

Flavor is heavy oxidation. Some dark fruit but this has sat to long. Really to long. Ouch