Bottle, vintage 2017. Color: Very dark ruby, no head. Aroma: Dark fruit, red wine. Taste: Dark dried fruit, red wine. Fruity. Pretty strong red wine. Subtle wood, tannins, herbs and red fruit, caramel. Moderate to above moderate sweet and bitter. Nice.

On tap @Luppolo Station in Rome. Black coffee bean color almost black with a medium ivory bubbling foam. Nose: oxidation, dried prunes, wet paper a bit, wood and red grapes firmly present. Mouth: clean, thin in a way, residual caramel and (red) wine

On tap @Luppolo Station (Rome). Nera, densa, impenetrabile, schiuma avorio/beige medio-leggera. Al naso frutta secca, datteri maturi, vino rosso marsalato, ossidazione, leggero solvente. In bocca è dolce con leggera acidità, con note di caramello, prugne mature, vino marsalato. Corpo pieno, carbonazione medio-leggera. Non proprio raffinata, ma niente male.

13 September 2025. At 17de Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to the whole crew!

Blackcurrant, ruby port, red wine, wood. Sour blackcurrant, cherry, almond. Woody tannins, dried fruits, red wine-like alcohol. Quite a similar experience, not too bad.

Original rating: 6/8/8/6/8=7.5. 26 October 2019. At Struise Shop, Bruges. Shared with Anke, cheers to Bart! Pours hazy dark amber-brownish with a thinning, off-white head. Aroma of sherry, blue grape, wood, vanilla, brambles, old furniture, wet tobacco, weirdly 'zurkel' (sorrel). Taste is light to medium fruity sweet, notes of plum, raisin, grape, herbal bitter touch, woody too, sourish undertone of brambles & sorrel, retronasal bready maltiness. Dry, herbal hoppy finish, ripe blue & dark fruits, wood, warming wine-like alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Bit weird sourish, old character, but enjoyable.

8cl sample at Struise Brouwers @ The Old School (visited 25.5.2019). F: no real. C: dark brown, hazy, opaque. A: dark malts, bit chocolate, caramel, woody, bit red wine, red fruits. T: dark malts, chocolate, cocoa, bit woody, red wine, caramel, dry on the palate, medium to full body, low carbonation, not so complex as I expected yet fully enjoyed.

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2018, Day 1. A black beer with a small beige head. Aroma of red fruits, riped dried fruits, wood. Taste of raisins, caramel, strong riped fruits. Slightly boozy.

Thanks! Sampled draft @ Billie’s Beer Festival 2018. Day 1. Dark brown going to black. Nose is alcoholic malt syrup and slab of sugar. Taste is dark bread vinous malt syrup, all plain sugar syrup with vinous streak, all sugary malt syrup like Pannepot is these days not a fan at all plus vinous. Sigh.