Tournay Noire
Brasserie de Cazeau in Templeuve, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Foreign / Extra Regular|
Score
6.89
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This beer is the favourite of Laurent Agache, who has always adored stout. “But I mean real Stout, not oversweet gassy liquids!”.
With an aim of finding a fairly marked coffee after-taste, we have chosen to use the most torrefied barley malt that can be found on the market – Black malt at 1400 EBC. As this malt is a bit acrid, we have “corrected” it by using another slightly caramelized malt (150 EBC), and some brown sugar. So that the hops can exist alongside these strong caramelized and torrefied malt flavours, we have mainly opted for the strong American hop, Tomahawk.
With an aim of finding a fairly marked coffee after-taste, we have chosen to use the most torrefied barley malt that can be found on the market – Black malt at 1400 EBC. As this malt is a bit acrid, we have “corrected” it by using another slightly caramelized malt (150 EBC), and some brown sugar. So that the hops can exist alongside these strong caramelized and torrefied malt flavours, we have mainly opted for the strong American hop, Tomahawk.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Fergus. It pours deep brown with a small beige head. The nose is toasty, earthy roast, liquorice, wet dog, musty paper, berry and dark fruits. The taste is bitter-sweet, red fruits, earth, toast, mild sweetness, ash and light peppery action. Medium body and fine carbonation. A bit old and musty on the nose, but tastes ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2015
at 14:31
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared in London - thanks to Fergus. Pours clear dark reddish brown with a creamy tan head. The nose has some ripe dark fruits, berries, toasty grainy grain. Medium sweet flavor with burnt leaves, damp earth, aged berries, grainy bread. Medium bodied with average to lively carbonation. Finishes fairly sweet with more toasty and leafy hops, dried berries, burnt sugars, bread. Fine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2015
at 14:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7
330ml bottle pours out dark brown almost black topped with a tan head. Nose is roast malts chocolate and pit fruit. Taste is sweet malts toffee pit fruit and some chocolate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2015
at 22:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Very dark brown. Flavour is bittersweet with some chocolate and malt sugars. Very smooth and creamy.
Tried
on 27 Apr 2015
at 05:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
330 ml bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours black with a massive tan head, keeps going and growing out of the glass. A touch over-carbonated then. Aromas of soy sauce, salt liquorice. Taste has light chocolate, more liquorice and soy. Tarry too. Medium body, sweet finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2015
at 13:30
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle at Craig’s. Pours dark brown, nose is peppery, coffee, taste is light roast, little bit thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2015
at 13:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Appearance is dark brown, ruby tinges, with a lasting off white creamy head. Aroma- milky coffee, chocolate, dark fruit undertones. Taste- roast malt, coffee, cocoa bitterness, burnt toast, liquorice hints. Nice, slightly lacks body.
Tried
on 30 Dec 2014
at 05:31
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
A close relative of their Tournay de Noël, this is even darker and more roasted and thus qualifies as a stout. Almost black colour, deep beige head; dark fruits, oily mouthfeel, bitter chocolate, yeasty notes, full roasted coffee-like bitterness in the finish, mouth-filling. More than decent.
Tried
on 24 Oct 2014
at 12:51
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Great beer. Like a Belgian stout, with not as sweet. Has a pleasent dry taste of roasted malt and coffee. Very good.
Tried
on 11 Jul 2014
at 04:29
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Ins Glas ergießt sich ein sehr dunkelbraunes Bier mit schöner beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch röstmalzig, Kaffee, Schokolade. Geschmack ebenfalls röstmalzig, schokoladig, Kaffee.
Tried
on 04 May 2014
at 13:21