Kollusion
Brouwerij Maenhout in Meulebeke, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Boom Island Brewing CompanyStout - Imperial Regular
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Score
7.54
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EBC 350.
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Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Kollusion from Brouwerij Maenhout 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Fast disappearing dark-cream head over jet-black beer. Intensely roasted, musk & spirit nose, whisky, but also curry herbs, coffeebeans, dark green leaves. Very roasted, sweet-bitterish flavour, breadcrust, melanoidin-rich malts, ink, musk. Don't get chocolate, however, strange. Very rich, creamy texture, bit oily but not chewy. Medium to good carbonation. Decent
Fin (18365) reviewed Kollusion from Brouwerij Maenhout 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle picked up from Dranken Geers, Oostakker nr Gent, Belgie and consumed at home, Attenkirchen, Bavaria, Sunday 20th April whilst making Saffron and Lemon Chicken and also Saffron and Rosemary Chicken and listening to Craig Charles Funk and Soul on 6 Music. Pours black with a tan head. Dirty toffee, chocolate, thick in the mouth. A little bit of a chilli burn, smooth and very good Imperial stout.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Kollusion from Brouwerij Maenhout 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Black with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a great deal of roasted malts and bitter coffee. Very rich and intense.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Kollusion from Brouwerij Maenhout 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33cl bottle. A black beer with a beige head. Aroma of dark roasted malt, liquorice, toffee and ash. Taste of toffee, dark roasted malt, ash, tobacco, liquorice, plums, slightly sticky.
Jybi (2409) reviewed Kollusion from Brouwerij Maenhout 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Expérience réussie pour les brasseries Maenhout et Boom Island sur cet Imperial stout tout à fait réussi. On a tout de même fait plus expérimental comme bière, car les expérimentations se limitent à une utilisation de Columbus et Sorachi Ace et par l’intégration de fèves de cacao et de café. Mais c’est bien fait, et sans être phénoménale cette bière possède des arômes pleins, francs et appréciables de café et de chocolat teintés de fruits (poire/raisin) et d’épices. Le Sorachi Ace facilite je pense à cette bonne présence aromatique. Et l’équilibre entre un alcool à 11 %, une amertume à 70 d’IBU et un sucre bien dosé est très bon. Robe noire sans aucune mousse en verre, pour le style, rien d’anormal (surtout avec 11 %). Le nez est franc et agréable sur une très nette dominante café/chocolat. La dégustation commence par une attaque avec une bonne amertume, et en complément du café et du chocolat les arômes fruités précédemment évoqués et un petit côté poivré. La deuxième bouche est à la fois plus douce mais également avec un alcool qui s’affirme quelque peu, plus ample et des arômes pleins. L’alcool se fera d’ailleurs encore plus marquant sur l’arrière bouche. Le final est à la fois sur un bon élancement, une bonne amertume avec un alcool chaleureux et une place belle aux arômes de café. Sans extravagance mais réussi cet imperial stout.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Kollusion from Brouwerij Maenhout 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle @ home. Opaque black color, average to medium sized brown colored head that diminishes fairly quickly but leaves a small lacing. Aroma is malts, coffee, dark chocolate. Taste malts, dark malts, dark chocolate, coffee / light espresso, slight sweet chocolate notes but mainly a soft to moderate bitterness. Sticky texture, medium to full body, suitable soft carbonation. Very well done. Lovely beer!
JK (8181) reviewed Kollusion from Brouwerij Maenhout 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Green pepper, some chili flavor, heavy roasted, nearly burnt grain and sugar. the green pepper is not great, otherwise an ok beer.
Bierridder (4318) reviewed Kollusion from Brouwerij Maenhout 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
05 or 06/2018 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with tderoeck. Black colour with dark tanned head. Nose is lots of roast, dark chocolate, some caramel. Taste is roasted, some coffee, chocolate, caramel, tad vanilla, could swear it had some chilli in it coz it had some burn.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Kollusion from Brouwerij Maenhout 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Maenhout collaborating with some small American craft brewer in Minneapolis to craft an imperial stout hopped with Columbus and Sorachi Ace and 'enriched' with coffee beans and cocoa nibs - we need more of this kind of innovation in Belgium so cheers to Thijs Maenhout in advance. Bottle from De Caigny (I think). Creamy, yellowish beige, medium thick, regular head lacing in streaks over a black beer with misty chestnut brown edges, only visible under bright light. Aroma of warm coffee with a dash of milk, lots of licorice candy, moist black chocolate bars and old 'pralines', pear syrup, hazelnut paste, lots of wet raisins, cloves taken from a beef stew, coffee filters, bayleaf, clay, black radish, hints of whisky, dried plum, chewing tobacco, nutmeg, cooked beetroot, walnuts, dried ginger and a background whiff of dead tree leaves. Sweet onset, dried plums and raisins made soggy again, some ripe pear, with a mellow underlying sourishness to it; carbonation remains on the soft side, mouthfeel is rounded, soft and full, but not as oily as I expect from an 11% ABV stout. Toffeeish malt core, almost immediately acquiring soft bitterish edges but something very thinly metallic as well; toasted walnuts and black bitter chocolate appear quickly, the latter accentuated by the actual cocoa nibs. Meanwhile rather pronounced phenolic effects appear (cloves, licorice, nutmeg, ginger) - not surprisingly paired with a bready yeast effect in the finish, cutting through the coffee bean factor which remains altogether subtle and adds insufficient retronasal coffee aroma. Ends with a glow of heating and eventually wry-ish, whisky-like alcohol which distracts a bit from otherwise agreeably lingering nutty, coffeeish and black chocolatey maltiness and earthily bittering, but not too aromatic hoppiness. Meritorious attempt at an international, modern imperial stout the American way, but still stuck in Belgianness - in the sense of being a tad too phenolic (especially the licorice phenol bothered me a bit), too earthy and too 'dirty'. Other points of (minor) criticism for me include too much astringent booziness in the end and a lack of coffee aromatics - if you claim to be (partially) a coffee stout, then at least I expect freshly made black coffee aromatics to rise up my nose during swallowing and those weren't very active here. I think omitting the coffee altogether and replacing it by a bit more roasted barley, which adds a coffeeish roastedness on its own, would not be a bad idea. But then, this is apparently experimental and will not be reiterated, so I guess they gave themselves only one shot at success - and missed it by a split hair. Decent stout, but I was hoping the Americans (admittedly from a brewery in Minneapolis I never heard of) would have contributed more oiliness, thickness, intensity and boldness. That said: kudos to Maenhout for - limitedly - putting this on the Belgian market, there is way worse out here when it comes to tinkering with the American style "impy" concept.
Rubin77 (10187) reviewed Kollusion from Brouwerij Maenhout 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
F: big, tanned, average retention. C: dark, opaque. A: dark malts, bit earthy, herbal, spicy, chocolate. T: dark malts, chocolate, bit coffee, mellow dark fruits, liquorice, not very complex but nice oily mouthfeel, some vinous tones, full body, lower carbonation, enjoyed, 33cl bottle from Prik & Tik ABC Drinks Leuven.