Too carbonated. Lci

Sampled at swaff 2018. Thnx for sharing. Everyone ! Pours muddy brown. Huge creamy and stable, off white head. Smell is bit bitter. Mild dark malts. Some earthy Ness. Mild chocolate aspects. Taste is sharp. Bit bitter. Roasty. Very creamy. Nice.

Huge cream-tan head, over virtually black beer. Coffee, roast, honey-glazed ham, green dark leaves, hops. Burnt/roast, dry Hessian sacks. FInish has some malt sweetness. Ashes warming up. Medium bodied, gristslick, good carbonation. Obviously good, but given the specifications, I'd expected more. 7/4/7/3/14

15/06/2018 @home - 33cl bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck Brown colour with medium tanned head. Nose is dark malts, caramel, fruity hops. Taste is dark malts, bit bitterness, red fruits, bitter fruity ending. Not getting any port notes or whatever. Feels more like a red IPA to me.

New Senne beer in collaboration with Italian microbrewery Lambrate, missed this one from tap at Dok Brewing Company a couple of weeks ago but being a Senne afficionado, I was determined to find it and bought a bottle online for a close analysis. Opens with a fierce hissing sound, but no gushing. Towering high, densely rocky, very thickly membrane-lacing, yellowish egg-white, foamy head on top of a misty, very dark burgundy brown beer, almost blackish in general looks but not quite - and therefore looking a bit more 'brown' than the average BIPA, the style in which this was apparently intended. Aroma of a lot of damp earth and moist autumn leaves, even slight and unpleasant manure firstly, gradually making room for less 'lumpish' impressions of freshly ground roasted coffee beans and cold coffee grounds, fresh black radish, green and inedible bitter garden herbs, pine-scented air freshener and spruce shoots (growing stronger in warming up), ground half-dry walnuts, dried elderberries, bayleaf, 'blood'-like iron, very old liquorice candy, brown paper bags, burnt toast, dry tea bags, wet leather, cloves, ginger. Spritzy, dryish onset, some dried blackberry sourishness alongside a restrained fig and pear sweetishness with lively, minerally carbonation on top, distracting a bit from the flavours; still supple, lean body, full and a tad resinous. Yeasty, clove- and vaguely liquorice-like phenols of a thoroughly Belgian nature appear early on and will accompany the rest of the palate, while a deep toasted nuttiness develops, escalating in a coffee grounds-like bitter roastedness, yet remaining softish with a caramelly edge. Hop bitterness is prominent in the finish, but with a primarily herbal, earthy, rooty nature combined with the earthiness and breadiness of the yeast; the hops win, however, with a long, resinous, quinine-like, spicy and eventually un-Belgian piney bitterness lingering in the back of the mouth for a long time. Remains rather juicy, yeasty and earthy, somewhat too much so for a BIPA, but that piney, redwood forest-like retronasal aroma typically associated with the style does hang on, lifting this above the average Belgian attempt at this somewhat (sadly) outpaced and often misunderstood 'new' craft beer style. Black IPAs are still a huge challenge in Belgium it seems, but I think this can be ascribed to the Belgian struggle with modern American style IPA in general, remaining stuck with this - in these cases - intrusive Belgian yeast profile, which distorts the pure glory of the New World hoppiness. That said, this effect, though clearly present, remains relatively modest in this particular case and the hoppiness is modern, piney and firm enough to make an argument that within the small range of Belgian attempts at 'Cascadian dark ale', as it is probably more adequately named, this is clearly above average. Not sure if this style is really Senne's forte - Senne is great, but probably less so at these clean, sharply edged, highly profiled Anglo-Saxon IPA variations, but still, if someone asked me to name the top five Belgian black IPAs, this will be in it, especially in the absence of serious competition.

F: big, tan to tanned, very long lasting. C: dark brown, hazy, opaque. A: tangerine, citrus, chocolate, bit coffee, roasted malts, bit tropical fruits. T: orange, tangerine, bit pine, chocolate, tropical fruits, light resinous, bit earthy, decent bitterness, medium body, bit higher carbonation, very good balanced yet not great, enjoyed, 33cl bottle from Färm shop Rue de Linthout in Brussels. F: big, tanned, very long lasting. C: brown, hazy. A: chocolate, caramel, bit dried fruits, citrus and tropical fruits. T: dark malts, bit chocolate, coffee, nice long lasting bitterness, tangerine, tropical fruits, medium body and medium to high carbonation, good one, enjoyed, sample draft shared with RB crew @ Swafff! Brussels Craft Beer Festival – 1st. day. 8/4/8/3/14 = 3,7

Thank you for sharing! Sampled draft @ Swafff 2018. More murky brown very dark amber than black, looks different from what you would expect. Cheesy hop nose strangely mixed with murky raw cookie dough malt. Taste is cheese, raw cookie dough, murky confusing cookie, murky, hazy. Good tasty beer but raw, not as precise and to the point as I am used from De La Senne, bit murky, confusing, still tasty for sure. + 330 ml. bottle @ Beerlovers Bar. Grain, cheese, how, raw grainy chocolate malt, messy but liked it more this time around.