Nice dry peat, sometimes a bit solvent but not too much.

Imported from my RateBeer account as De Meester Dark Master (by De Meester):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

2/II/19 - sample @ Brugs Bierfestival, BB: n/a - (2019-183) Thanks to the Belgian ratebeer crew for sharing todays' beers!
Clear dark purple brown to black beer, small aery irregular beige head, pretty stable, little adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: very roasted, caramel, alcohol, more roasted, peated. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: soft roast, alcohol, bitter, very peated, more roasted, chocolate, smoky touch. Aftertaste: caramel, malty, sugary, more malts, bitter, little peated, more roast, hoppy finish.

Pours black, creamy, dense, stable mocha head. Smell is intense, 'gappekes'. Taste is very full, roasty, full bodied, heavy burnt, ashy. Gappekes. Not great to me, but that's I suppose a matter of personal taste. Full bodied, and for once, not extremely overcarbonated. Nice beer, but not for me.

De Meester's take on imperial stout, winter beer from a bottle wrapped in paper, at Modeste. Thick and moussy, yellowish beige head, black robe with hazy burgundy edges. Aroma of Belgian chocolates, glue, fondant, brown rum, candied fig, teriyaki, beef broth, coffee liqueur, Rumtopf, walnuts. Sweet onset, condensed candied dates and dried prunes, beef broth-like umami edge, softish fizz, thick and 'greasy' mouthfeel, thick caramelly, toffeeish, nutty malts, chocolatey with a coffeeish roasty bitterish touch in the end before a long, warming and eventually astringent, rum-like booziness with strong solvent-like effect sets in. Way too boozy for its own good, but admittedly better than expected from this brewery. --- Beer merged from original tick of Dark Master - Aged in Bourbon Whisky Cask on 25 Nov 2020 at 11:08 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: New bourbon barrel aged version of De Meester’s Dark Master stout, with regular label instead of the paper wrap this time. Mousy, pale greyish beige, thinnish and irregular head, some thin grey ‘veils’ in the middle of a very dark, de facto blackish beer with still translucent burgundy, hazy edges. Aroma of toffee, liquorice and even ‘drop’, whisky, crème au beurre, marmite, bayleaf, clove, dried prunes, salmiak, burnt toast, cigar ashes, thyme, solventy effect (shoe polish). Sweet onset, blackberry coulis and candied dates, ‘krenten’, light umami edges (beef stock-ish) and light sourish undertone, softish carbonation, full and smooth body; toffeeish and slightly chocolatey malt core with toasty edges, initially sweet but turning increasingly bitter towards the end, with a mild but confident coffeeish roastiness; liquorice aspect in the end, along with impressions of bayleaf, cigar ashes and black tea, before a boozy alcohol glow takes over – only vaguely reminiscent of bourbon actually, could have been another liquor as well for all I know. Bit crude and less bourbon-forward than hoped, but still quite an impressive beer for this brewery, I guess they learned a lot from what Brambrass has been doing there… Enjoyable if you are into robust stouts with a quadruple-ish side, but I would have preferred more influence from the wood ageing (especially the woodiness itself, which remains superficial and altogether on the weak side).

Sampled @ Modeste bierfestival, Antwerp. Dark brown color, average sized off-white to beige head. Aroma is weird: malts, dark malts, hints of paint, but also liquorice, glue. Taste malts, roast, glue, minerals, liquorice, soy sauce, lightly sweetish. Weird. 6-3-6-3-11.

Thanks to Benzai. Sampled draft @ Modeste 2018. Dark brown. Nose is cough syrup, herbal, thin. Taste is weird herbal, grainy cough syrup, bit sour, gravy, strange gravy, cough syrup, thin… Weird, not a big fan.

At Winter Beer Fest 2017, Waregem. Shared with Anke!
Cloudy black with a frothy, tan head. Aroma of bourbon, vanilla, licorice, dark fruits, roasted malt and peat. It tastes medium malty & sugary sweet and light roasted bitter, quickly becoming bourbon-like alcoholic again - very warming. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Very inviting; anyway not lacking in a punch of alcohol, but could have had an even fuller body for its ABV and style.