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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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
330ml Bottle - Black with a tan head. Fruity, yeasty and malty aroma with some tart hints and notes of dried fruit and roasted malt. Fruity, tangy and slightly roasted taste with notes of malt, dried fruit and hints of chocolate and coffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Oct 2012
at 13:18
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
330mL bottle, pours a near-black with a reddish tinge and with ample beige head. Aroma of sugar cane, artificially sweetened chocolate, slight roast and yeast - smells very Belgian. Flavour is very obscured by the insanely high carbonation, which would be more appropriate for a saison or tripel but not a stout. Anyways, flavours of candied sugar, cocoa powder, and lots of yeast. These Belgian stouts are always sketchy to me, with their very high carbonation, high yeasty content and odd flavours - this is no different. Nothing offensive, but too carbonated and yeasty to fit in a stout. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2012
at 21:32
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
330 ml bottle. Pours black with full tan head. Aromas of blackcurrants and roasted malts. A little light for a stout but has flavors of dark malts and coffee grounds. Bitter finish with definite alcohol taste and heat.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2012
at 21:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
33 cl. bottle @ Bier Circus // dark brown going to black with a very café au lait looking head (interesting) // smell reveals it having definitely too much yeast in it, malt, lightly roasted, coffee, plenty of cocoa, light hints of bitter coffee // yeast heavy taste, plenty of cocoa, more than coffee, small hint of liquorish & yeast, dark fruits, roasted malts heavy finish, hint of dark bread, some bitter milk chocolate // body is not very heavy & quite creamy // my boss compared it to Guinness, a cliché but he certainly did have a point, this is much better & less watery than regular Guinness
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 May 2012
at 03:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
33cl bottle @ home. Dark brown color, dark ruby red glow coming through. Medium to full creamy beige to light brown head. Don’t smell much, just some malts and slightly sweet. Taste malts, slightly sweet, also some bitter and raisin. Medium body, medium carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2012
at 15:06