Black Swan
Brussels Beer Project in Brussel / Bruxelles / Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.17
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Black Swan is a robust yet delicate, soft and complex blackberry Baltic Porter. We went a bit overboard on the berries and used 360kg of blackberry puree for 9000L! It's dark with a nice purple brown head. On the mouthfeel, we have a nice chocolate and sour fruity finish
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle. Jet black colour with slightly late awakening, average, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, beige head. Intense, fruity aroma, notes of bramble, chocolately, dark malty background. Taste is sweet-ish and minimally tart, fruity, chocolately dark malty, notes of bramble and dark chocolate, the blackberry purée delivers even some peppery spicy aspects. Slightly viscous texture, smooth and soft, minimally cloying palate, lingering fruity finish. Quite focussed on the blackberry part, almost a bit monotonous - but well balanced and very tasty. I like it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2019
at 22:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black with a brown head - Malt and berry aroma - Malt body with a berry flavour - The berry flavour goes into a long finish - This was good
Tried
on 21 Sep 2019
at 18:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 8
Black as hell this one and a fine curly beige head on top of the woman Ok intensity in the aroma. Smooth fine carbonation level. Easy and pleasant to drink Balanced sweetness and an oily texture Black berries, chocolate, dark malt and some roast in the flavor Nice tasty evening sipper this one. Not to boozy actually [On tap at Haand Festival -19 in Drammen, Norway]
Tried
from Draft
on 30 May 2019
at 14:35
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Totally black. Smells like blackberry jam and dessert wine. Creamy with a nice body. Thin and boozy toward the end. It’s like a dessert beer with all of the blackberry cookie yeast flavors. Still delicious in small doses
Tried
on 15 May 2019
at 17:46
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
27 April 2019. At Zythos Bierfestival. Deputy Taster: Anke. Cheers to Ama Deke, Erwin, John & Meeki! Hazy dark brown-black, very thin, beige head. Aroma initially makes me think of Dr. Pepper, apart from that: sour & liqueur-drenched cherries, ‘Ersatz’ chocolate, blackberries, ‘carré confiture’, dough. Taste is medium fruity sweet, equally sour, mixing cherries, blackberries, red fruit jam with dough & chocolate, touch of vanilla, only slightly bitter (nuts, toast). Dryish, earthy hoppy finish, lingering cherries & chocolate, subtle alcohol hinting at Maraschino liqueur. Medium body, slick-oily texture, soft carbonation. Bit of a weird mix but it goes down easily.
Tried
on 10 May 2019
at 15:32
6/10
Taster On tap at Haandfestival, Drammen. Almost Black with offwhite head. Roasted malts, berries, some bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 May 2019
at 18:55
6.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Tap. Pours opaque black, large creamy tan head, dissipates slowly, nice lacing. Aroma is strong BlackBerry, roasty, ash. Flavor is Light plus sweet, light berry tartness, minimal bitter. Sharp. Too fruity. Medium body 5,6,6,4,11
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Apr 2019
at 03:54
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Cask at the cask festival 2019. A mahogany brown coloured pour with a lasting light tan head. Aroma is nice blackberry jam, tart fruit, hint of black forest gateau, cherry. Flavour is composed of tart cherry, blackberry jammy fruits, woody berries. Great on cask. Palate is semi sweet, tart, rounded, good cask condition. High strength boost ale.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Mar 2019
at 13:52
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle picked up at the Brewpub. Reddish black with a tan head. Aroma of astringent blackberry. Flavour is blackberry jam, toasted malt, boozy fruit, sharp and acidic dark fruit finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Mar 2019
at 22:29
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Brussels Beer Project Black Swan (by Brussels Beer Project):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5
14/III/19 - on tap, shared with Erwin @ Brussels Beer Project (BXL), BB: n/a - (2019-378)
Clear dark brown beer, big creamy beige head, bit irregular, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: oh boy, super fruity, blackberry jam, sweet impression, soft roast. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: bit sweet, soft acidity, lots of blackberries, bit sugary. Aftertaste: soft roast, fruity, more sourish blackberries, bit sweet, bitter finish, roasted, jam, nice stuff! I'm really surprised about the low scores here... (60 overall/29 style)
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.3/5
14/III/19 - on tap, shared with Erwin @ Brussels Beer Project (BXL), BB: n/a - (2019-378)
Clear dark brown beer, big creamy beige head, bit irregular, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: oh boy, super fruity, blackberry jam, sweet impression, soft roast. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: bit sweet, soft acidity, lots of blackberries, bit sugary. Aftertaste: soft roast, fruity, more sourish blackberries, bit sweet, bitter finish, roasted, jam, nice stuff! I'm really surprised about the low scores here... (60 overall/29 style)
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Mar 2019
at 21:12