Brouwerij Montaigu Love Comes Love Goes Port

Love Comes Love Goes Port

 

Brouwerij Montaigu in Scherpenheuvel, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production
Score
6.61
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 37 Ticks: 14
A belgian beer with added port "quinta do burcheiro reserva" from the Portugal Duoro-region.

This a "ruby" port that had matured for 7 years in oak barrels. The combination gives a very suprising taste. The fermentation in the bottle gives the beer even more evolution after years, into a very "vintage" beer.

Beer brewed with care to be consumed carefully.
Pilsner, Vienna, Cara 50, Cara 120, Special B & Choco 850 malts. Styrian Goldings, East Kent Goldings, Saaz, Cascade & Amarillo hops. 145 EBC
 

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6.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Love Comes Love Goes Port (by Brouwerij Montaigu):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

18/V/13 - 25cl bottle @ VBPF (Jette) - BB: n/a (2013-487) Thanks to Erwin for sharing today's beers!

Clear dark purple brown beer, aery beige head, unstable, dissipates immediately, non adhesive. Aroma: caramel, dried fruits, overripe fruits, mocha, brown sugar, overripe banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: mocha, burnt caramel, bitter hops, bit metallic, cocoa powder, some overripe banana. Aftertaste: little bitter, overripe fruits and banana, bitter hops, port notes, red wine, some tannins, bitter chocolate. It's pretty complex and interesting, but I'm not a big fan of port beers I guess (Broeder Jacob, Domus, ...)
Tried from Bottle on 18 May 2013 at 11:04

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
75cl bottle courtesy of and shared with sebletitje. It pours with mahogany colored body and supporting a full mocha colored head of foam. The modest aroma offers up a mix of brown sugar and dark roasted malts to chocolate malts. The taste begins with dark roasted malts and some chocolate mixing with brown sugar and small spikes of vague hop bitterness. Into the finish it picks up a mild sweet prune and muted spicy oak sensation as well as faint toasted toffee notes deep into the after taste. The toasted toffee I’m getting really helps pull this beer together.
Tried from Bottle on 03 Mar 2013 at 08:28

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
75cl bottle shared with Ibrew2or3. Bottle #124/1000. Brune foncée, col beige. Arôme reste très belge dans l’approche, note malté, caramel, léger fruité avec un Porto restant moyen tirant le bouquet vers un léger fruité rouge-vin chaud. Ceci étant, ce bouquet maintient une affiche très européenne entre Vienna et Pils. Palasi présente une belle effervescence, sucre résiduel caramélisé, légère pointe de chocolat prenant des allures de toffee. Iic pas vraiment de barrique vu que le Porto est rajouté à la bière. Le tout reste sec et fruité rouge avec pour moi un profil chocolaté profond. Les houblons arrivent en fin de bouche, ajoutant une fine note d’amertume citronnée et fleuri neutre noble euro. Note de cerise et raisin. Compte tenu des essais parfois infructueux d’autres brasserie (HTD pour ne pas la citer) à des bières en barrique, cette dernière reste agréable. Garde cependant une signature très belge que le côté Porto parvient à rendre intéressant.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Feb 2013 at 11:14

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Good medium, rather dense dark beige head, over well-carbonated deep dark brown beer; Bit bready nose, leafy and earthy. Melanoidiens and some alcohol-drenched wood, but I don’t seem to get the portaromas. (Love) gone already? Bitterish - roasted flavour, with a malty backing that makes it taste as the baked edges/crusts of a gingerbread loaf. Some alcohol there, hints at some drink, but blind I’d never guessed portwine. Warming up, leafy flavours, tad of (non-sweet) milk chocolate. Feels very carbonated, spritzy. Alcoholwarming. Slick, but not much more than medium bodied - probably well-attenuated. Interesting tryout (and to be honest, much better than I feared). Might be a point of discussion whether this is beer or rather a beercocktail, but given blind, I’d named it beer outright.
Tried on 06 Feb 2013 at 11:45