A deep dark brown stout with a thin moka head. A light chocolate aroma with licorice notes, and a bit of coffee. In mouth, a sweet cold coffee with herbal notes, a bit lighter than expected but quite nice. Tasted at Mondiale 2007.

Draft @ Redlight Redlight. Cheesy aroma. Minerally bleu cheese salty flavors. Def funky. Easy finish with hints of roast and chocolate. Dark brown color.

Bottled at Horsens Beerfestival. Black body with a brown head. Moderate aroma of malt, roasted coffee and a certain discrete sourness in the background. Flavor is mild roasted malt, coffee, dry fruit and a very pleasant sourness lurking in the background. A bit odd, but I really appreciated this freshness from a relatively mild porter.

Tap at Gingerman. I am a bit biased because I seem to like almost everything from BFM. And going into this I was thinking this would be a light version of the Imperial Stout, which it was. Pours beautifully black into a small goblet with a thick brown head. Aroma is, as hoped, lightly fruity, funky, brett and who knows what else with dark malty fruits behind that. Taste has a bit less funk to it and comes off as a very easy drinking, lightly fruity, with a hint of roast, stout. Lighter body makes this a non-stop drinker. I really could just keep drinking this all day. Another winner from BFM.

33cl bottle. Pours blackish/brown with beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, floral and spicy. Taste roasted with caramel notes, also noticed some oaky character light coffee/chocolat malts, light floral notes and dark fruits. Somehow the bottle indicated it was a biere de garde.

Big thanks to Degarth for opening this rare treat. Pours deep dark brown with brown head. The aroma is dark roasty malts, sweetness and some burnt malts. Way in the background is a murmur of grainy Munich-like malts. The taste is mildly roasty malts and mild burnt malts. The malty flavors grow to midway and become mildly sweeter and seem to carry with them faint dark fruity esters onward to the finish.

Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color ale with a nice foamy head with good retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of honey and light roasted malt notes. Taste is sweeter then expected with less bitter notes then expected and more dry fruits and honey. Body is thinner then what I was expected with some medium carbonation. Interesting and different for sure but not necessarily something I would go for very often.

75 cL bottle, 2006 vintage. Pours deep brown to black with a dense chocolate brown head. Slight herbal, acidic and with some mild roasted malt. Flavour is acidic roasted malt. Smooth and not unpleasant. Ends bitter and acidic.

Bottle at Horsens beerfestival. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, alcohol, caramel, fruit. Flavour is sweet, alcohol, caramel, malt, hop.

Bottled at Horsens Beerfestival. Brownish black with a small tan head. The flavor has a bonfire-like sourness, some coffee, roasted malt and caramel- The flavor has caramel and roasted malt. Medium body. Pleasant, but not what I would call a typical stout. Rating: 6-4-6-3-12-3.1 (061028)

Bottle, 75cl. The beer introduced itselves by volcanoing out of the bottle, ending on the table, but there were enough beer in the bottle to get a good taste for all of us. It had a murky brown, very dark brown actually, body, and a dense, beige head on top. Burnt, sour, chocolate aroma, quite heavy. The flavor had licorice, burnt malt, chocolate, sourness and some barnyard notes. Medium body with a high co2 level. Nice, slightly sour finish with roasted malt and coffee. Pleasant. Maybe a bit sour, but it had the power to take it. (070928)