Insomnia
White Pony Microbirrificio in Piove di Sacco (PD), Veneto, Italy 🇮🇹
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Het NestPorter - Imperial Regular
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Score
7.59
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TEJA (349) reviewed Insomnia from White Pony Microbirrificio 3 months ago
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Systembolaget Sweden.
Small semi lastning brown head.
Black color.
Very nice dark chocolate and caramell aroma.
Full bodied, sweet malty with a medium roasted taste with a medium bitterness.
nathanvc (6881) reviewed Insomnia from White Pony Microbirrificio 1 year ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
2 May 2024. Old botte from somewhere - Deconinck? Guesswork at this point. Lot. 1/2019. Hazy black, stable, frothy, dark beige head. Intense aroma of toast, brownie, (bloody) iron, black olive, prune, wholemeal bread, espresso, earth, leather, vague manure. Taste has sweet prune & fig and slight sourish blackcurrant against a dark-chocolatey, brown-bready, toasted-nutty malt backbone with earthy-umami black olive notes underneath. Earthy hoppy finish, a bit metallic but not disturbing, more umami and espresso roast and heating brandy-like alcohol. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. This has aged particularly well, with the malt profile maintained to carry the alcohol.
arvidspiny (5003) ticked Insomnia from White Pony Microbirrificio 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Fles thuis geprobeerd. Het is een diep donkerbruin bier met een beige schuim. Het heeft een aroma van gebrande mout en chocolade. De smaak is vol, chocolade en koffie.
Lilja (4693) ticked Insomnia from White Pony Microbirrificio 4 years ago
Nisse666 (17550) reviewed Insomnia from White Pony Microbirrificio 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle web SB 2021-06-29 Göteborg AR: roasted malt, salt liqurice, wee tar AP: dark brown, wee transparent beige lid F: roasted malt, liqurice, semi sweet, wee grainy
Martin Lindström (24441) ticked Insomnia from White Pony Microbirrificio 4 years ago
minutemat (16133) reviewed Insomnia from White Pony Microbirrificio 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
330ml bottle from Bierhalle Deconinck. Pours very dark, with dense tan head. Big layered roasted woody dark malt aroma. Taste continues with an intensely layered roasty, woody character with smoked leather on the finish. Excellent flavoursome imperial stout with quite a lot going on.
mike_77 (15884) reviewed Insomnia from White Pony Microbirrificio 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Black with dark creamy head. Roasted and bitter. Full bodied. Lighter elements of smoke, and dark chocolate.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Insomnia from White Pony Microbirrificio 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Imperial rye porter by White Pony, operating in Belgium; this one was apparently brewed at Eutropius. Thick and dense, creamy, deep pale brown-tinged mocha-coloured, membrane-lacing head, very dark misty chocolate brown robe, as good as black. Aroma of espresso, coffee filters, burnt toast, black chocolate, leather, dried thyme, black peppercorns, lots of blood-like iron, whisky, cigars, bay leaf, dried blackberries, pipe tobacco ashes, bonfire even, vermouth, roasted apple peel, beef stock cubes, walnuts, dried porcini. Sweetish onset hinting at dried fig, dried blueberries and old raisins, light sourish edge and clear, dried porcini-like umami, medium carbonated with robust, full and oily body. Deep toasted brown bread- and toasted walnut-like maltiness, dryish and mouth-filling with a thick roasted bitter edge, becoming very coffeeish in the end, a tad ashy even; meanwhile peppery, leafy, rooty hops add further long-lasting bitterness, while spicy impressions linger (bay leaf, thyme), perhaps linked to the rye. Ends with considerable, heating, whisky-like alcohol, a bit astringent even, but the very thickness of the toasted malts absorb this well. Very fully roasted bitter, I would classify this as a (Belgian-influenced) imperial stout rather than an imperial porter, but that is a semantic discussion not worth going into here; in any case a boozy, robust, very bold sipper, I certainly enjoyed it a lot, even if there is still room for further finetuning.