Spacelord Cosmic Coffee 2018

Bottle. Color: Black, light brown head. Aroma: Roasted malt, coffee, mocha. Taste: Over moderate sweet and bitter, dark roasted malt, coffee and some mocha. Smooth mouthfeel. Over medium body, below average carbonation. Finish is more bitter with notes of ash. After standing some time it also gets lightly sour, same sourness as coffee beans might have. Ok, but lacking complexity, monotonous. There are way better coffee Stouts.

Black with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a lot of coffee and roasted bitter malts. Silky mouthfeel.

F: big, tanned, good retention. C: black, opaque. A: dark malts, chocolate, coffee, cocoa, bit dark fruits. T: dark malts, chocolate, coffee, cocoa, nice dry bitter on the palate, bit vinous, medium to full body, medium carbonation, taste is better than aroma so enjoyed, sample from 75cl bottle @ RBBSG 10/2018.

06/10/2018 - sampled from bottle on RBBSG 2018 Black colour with beige head. Nose is dark malts, roast. Taste is dark malts, some roast, bit licorice, ashy touch, no coffee at all.

Thank you! 750 ml. bottle sampled @ RBBSG 2018. Black, huge mocha head. Nose is bit metallic, thick grainy, burned bread. Taste is way too bitter with no balanced, burned bread & coffee with bitter ash, grounds, grain, bread, thin & overly bitter, bit empty after the harsh opening,… Not a bit success.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Malterfakker Spacelord Cosmic Coffee 2018 (by Malterfakker):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5

6/X/18 - 75cl bottle @ late RBBSG, Brouwerij Totem (Evergem), BB: 15/XI/21 - (2018-1533) Thanks for sharing the bottle!

Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, very stable, bit adheisve. Aroma: mocha, coffee, pretty roasted, more coffee, bit of a sweetish impression, hint of caramel malts, more coffee still. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of coffee up front, bit sourish, sweet, caramel malts, nice roast, some dark chocolate notes. Aftertaste: more dark chocolate, bit malty, coffee, mocha, soft bitterness.

Sampled from bottle @ late RBBSG. Dark brown to black color, medium sized brown colored head. Aroma is malts, very weird, metallic. Taste malts, dark malts, liquorice, iron, metallic, metallic bitterness. Not very good, but it is still drinkable.

Belgian imperial stout, brewed by the brother of the guy who runs M-Café in Leuven, which is exactly where I tasted this (apparently at the same time and in the same room as kraddel, initially unknowingly). Creamy, egg-white, stable, pale beige head over a black beer with hazy mahogany brown edges, only visible under bright light. Aroma of black coffee, old bitter chocolate, pipe tobacco, dried elderberries, tree leaves, cigar ashes, toasted brown bread, dry beef stock cubes, earth, butterscotch, baked banana slices, tea. Sweetish onset with outspoken roasted grain sourishness running through the whole, hints of dried berries, fried banana and fig with a light beefy umami accent, fizzy but 'refined' carbonation, full mouthfeel, tad grainy. Deeply nut shell-, black chocolate- and toasted bread maltiness, more bitter than sweet especially when a strong coffeeish roastedness comes up, even turning ashy in the finish; expressive black coffee-ish bitterness matches with peppery, leafy hop bitterness, an earthy - and in a sense very 'Belgian' - bready yeastiness and a warming yet non-wry, 'jenever'-like alcohol effect. If there should ever be such a thing as a Belgian style imperial stout, something you'll either like or not (same as with Belgian IPA attempts), then this is a classic example of it. Motivating to explore more of Malterfakker's range, though yeasty and earthy as well as very roasted and ashy and in that sense a bit old-fashioned (and typically Belgian) compared with the current international trend towards sweetness in heavy stouts. Enjoyed it nonetheless.