Murder - Virgin
Crow Mountain in Essen, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.17
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Het recept van toen is eigenlijk nauwelijks veranderd - wél gebruiken we meestal een andere hop voor elk brouwsel.
Murder ontleent zijn naam aan "a murder of crows", de Stout is namelijk zo zwart als een groep kraaien.
De zware mout-storting van o.a. meer dan 25% gebrande mouten maken van Murder Stout een erg volmondig en uitbundig bier.
Met de intussen bekende toetsen van koffie, chocolade en drop.
We brouwen Murder meestal 2 maal per jaar, in Limited Spring en Winter Edition.
En we brengen onze Murder Stout meestal in 2 versies - een Barrel-Aged en een ongerijpte "Virgin".
Voor Murder Imperial Stout gebruiken we steeds robuuste bitterhoppen zoals Zeus, Herkules of Target.
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MarcoDL (7854) reviewed Murder - Virgin from Crow Mountain 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Black pour. Aroma of caramelised malt, chocolate, licorice, earthy vanilla, mild roast and a little coffee. Taste has dusty coffee, smoke, caramelised malt, licorice, bitter chocolate, earthy vanilla and some red fruit. Nice classic style ris.
Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Murder - Virgin from Crow Mountain 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Black. Malt, roast And mint in the aroma. Malty sweet, Full bodied. Caramel, licorice And mint. Citrus. Simple but effective. Licorice in the finish.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Murder - Virgin from Crow Mountain 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours like black oil with a dark creamy head. Aroma and flavour are strong with alcohol, burnt malt. Also some dark chocolate.
Icedwarf (4896) reviewed Murder - Virgin from Crow Mountain 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Zawrt bier met schuim wat snel wegzakt. Smaak is bitter, licht zoet en rookig met iets van bittere chokolade, cognac en geroosterd brood. Kan nog wel worden verbeterd denk ik.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Murder - Virgin from Crow Mountain 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from De Caigny, obtained when this beer was first presented there to the public. Medium thick, irregularly lacing, yellowish beige head, slowly thinning in the middle, but moussy and stable; black with hazy mahogany edges. Aroma of toasted hazelnuts, walnut oil, cold black coffee, cappuccino, liquorice, cigar tobacco, black chocolate bars, dried figs, cloves, burnt sugar, toast, fried black olives, bayleaf, iron, dried bitter garden herbs, nutmeg, young 'jenever', glue. Dryish onset, dried fruits, old raisins, very low in sweetness, sourish undercurrent, some dry black olive-like umami, softish carbo, full and sufficiently oily mouthfeel, minerally hints, bit resiny. Nutty maltiness with quickly bittering toasty edges, roasted coffeeish towards the finish, herbal hop bitterness, spicy notes also due to phenolic effects but restrainedly so, followed by an afterglow of whisky-ish alcohol, warming; light butterscotch-like malt sweetness lingering, nutty too. Certain Belgian (phenolic) traits here, but generally speaking quite clean and to the point, full and satisfying, with enough roasted bitterness to qualify as a classic English style imperial stout - and fortunately not hindered too much by irrelevant or disturbing bready, earthy or estery 'Belgian' yeastiness, as is all too often the case in Belgian attempts at this style. Congrats to this 'brewery', which seems to continue its path along American style craft beer styles - the English name of their company is already a step in that same direction, and there still aren't too many brewing companies in this country that dare to go that way. We need more initiatives like this in this country and I will follow these guys closely now - with one of the country's finest bottle shops as the perfect canal to obtain their creations...
yespr (55501) reviewed Murder - Virgin from Crow Mountain 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
From tap. Pours darkmalty and roated. Tan head. Herbal. Toasted and toffee malty. Caramelish and breadish.
77ships (14506) reviewed Murder - Virgin from Crow Mountain 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
330 ml. bottle sampled @ De Caingy. Courtesy of the brewers. Black solid mocha head. Nose is chocolate, varnish, quite heavy on liquorice, bitter liquorice. Interesting quite herbal, bitter syrupy, roast, heavy roast & bitter liquorice really dries out your mouth, almost blueberry, lingering dry roast,… Interesting for sure & very different from most Imperial Stout, I rather dug it.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Murder - Virgin from Crow Mountain 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours black, small off white head. Smell is rather weak, roasty. Taste is full, roasy, to much black malts, giving asttigency. Higher carbo. Bit of plastic. Unbalanced grainbill.