Black Pearl Barry White Rum Barrel Aged
Brouwerij De Koninck in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Special|
Score
7.11
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The original TSTBRW 2 (Imperial Stout) aged for 1 year in Rum barrels. This was done in the old fermentation cellars under the brewery where music of Barry White plays 24/7. It was the first succesful barrel aged beer of Sven Dekleermaeker, the brewer who is famous for restoring the original recipe for the famous Antwerp Bolleke.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
I Draught /I Good, very fine & dense beige head over pitch-black beer. Very boozy nose, point of stout acidity already announced, raisins with lemonjuice on rum. Rum, hard spirit, wood, liquorice, roast, alcohol-infused or -preserved oranges, again I boerejongens /I (raisins on alcohol - in this case rum). Again a welcome spike of stout acidity. Lots of alcoholheat, alcoholthinning, burning, very slick, oily feel though not really chewy-bodied. I tend to agree with other tasters - I ought not to like this, but I do. It's overpowering, yet really good.
Tried
on 28 Jul 2019
at 08:10
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle at Modeste 2017. Pours black, small white head. Smell is grainy, boozy. taste is sharp, boozy, grainy. Roasty. Oak. Boozy, yet somehow still balanced. pretty impressive beer comming from a big Brewery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2017
at 04:05
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Thanks to 90! Sampled draft @ Modeste 2017. Black, pasty mocha bubbles. Nose is insanely heavy on Rum, seriously did they just pour that stuff in here or what? Stupidly alcoholic Rum, alcohol is so harsh pure varnish, spices all the way. Carbonation is soft odd oily almost liquorice chocolate syrup but the rum is all over this thing, so much bloody rum, how much was there left in that barrel, did they poor in more? It is insanely alcoholic hot rum & spiced rum tasting, raisin. The definition of overkill, I haven’t tried Barrel Aged Duvel but apparently that one was also so heavy on the spirit. Doesn’t even taste like beer but beer mixed with hard liquor. It isn’t bad but it a baffling cocktail of sorts. I have no idea what in line satuarion means.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Oct 2017
at 02:22