@ 2019

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

29 November 2019. At Billie's Craft Beer Fest. Cheers to the lovely Anke, tderoeck, 77ships & Ghent beer crew! Hazy black, very thin, frothy, beige head. Aroma of speculoos, vanilla, cream, chocolate, mocha, caramel sauce. Taste has sweet chocolate & cream with soft dried fruits; bitter core of cinnamon, clove, pepper, supported by nutty, bready, toasty maltiness. Dry, peppery hoppy finish, quite spicy & woody, with lingering chocolate & burning rum alcohol. Medium to full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Nice combination of spices, BA profile & 'dark' maltiness.

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

Pours black, medium tanned head. Smell is full on 'green' coffee. Taste is raw, 'green' coffee. Good roasty base, with a nice balance between sweet and bitter. Maple seems completely lost, sadly enough.

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Coffee- and maple syrup-flavoured strong stout aged on cachaça barrels (a Brazilian kind of rum), from this Brazilian craft brewery in the São Paulo region in Brazil. Papery lacing, mousy, slowly breaking but generally very stable, beige head on a black beer with thin mahogany-brown edges. Aroma of candied figs, prunes, coffee cream, roasted chicory, maple syrup indeed, black chocolate, brown rum, old oak barrels, old liquorish. Sweet onset, dense, candied dates and figs, very light umami accent, very spritzy carbonation for the style with a thinning effect on an otherwise full and thick, toffeeish and hazelnutty to eventually dark-chocolatey malt profile with a roasty-bitter finish aided by clear tannic woodiness and a leafy hop bitter note; retronasal ‘vanilla’ from the oak and sweet maple syrup are clear enough, as well as an outspoken coffee aroma. Long, heating, rum-coloured finish. Weirdly overcarbonated and too spritzy for this kind of beer, but the flavours are surely well chosen and match perfectly together.

Harsh barrel notes

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

30/XI/19 - sample @ Day 2 of Billies Craft Beer Festival 2019, BB: n/a - (2019-2098) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!

Aroma: spicy, chillies, spicy, very roasted, coffee. MF: ok carbon, full body. Taste: sweet start, thick, lots of alcohol, soft roast, sweet malts, sugary. Aftertaste: malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, lots of alcohol, sugary impression.