23/VI/22 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: n/a, bottled: 11/XI/2016 11:15, lot: 2 (2022-778)

Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige irregular head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: nice roast, caramel, chocolate notes, sweet impression. MF: soft carbon, medium to light body. Taste: bitter roast, some coffee, a bit metallic, more coffee, roasted. Aftertaste: very bitter, lots of coffee, very roasted, dry, a bit sourish.

At Gollem, Antwerp. Lighter version of this famed Canadian stout, with lightly lacing, pale greyish beige, moussy head quickly opening in the middle, and blackish robe with translucent, hazy mahogany edges. Aroma of beef stock cubes, butterscotch, coffee powder, baked black olives, bitter chocolate, old nut shells, dried thyme, hint soy sauce. Restrained dried fruit sweetishness drenched in fairly thick, beef stock- and somewhat soy sauce-like umami, sourish roasted barley, dry, medium carbo, smooth and 'fatty', oily mouthfeel. Nutty malt body, bitter chocolate, hard butterscotch, sourishness continuing in a quite pronounced way but covered in this nutty, toasty maltiness and a spicy but soft roastedness of old black coffee; spicy hop note as well. Remarkably full-bodied for a 6% ABV stout, but a tad too much in umami and old nutshell and old coffee sourishness for me, this is not quite at the same quality level as the original for me.

Draft @ Brewers Beer Bar, Gothenburg. Pours a black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty coffee aroma with hints of chocolate. Roasted malty coffee chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty coffee chocolate finish.

Draft. Black beer with a brown head. Light coffee and light chocolate aroma with light citrus. Roasty flavor with coffee and light nuttiness. Medium bodied. Roast and coffee lingers with light chocolate.

Bottle: Poured a black color stout with a large brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of nice espresso notes with some roasted malt and light black chocolate notes are also noticeable. Taste is a nice mix of roasted malt with black chocolates notes with floral espresso notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. Solid mix of roasted malt and espresso notes with no astringency and nice coffee undertones.

Keg @ BBB. Blackish dark brown pour with a creamy beige head. Heavy roast coffee nose with hints of roasted bell pepper, dried bilberries/cherries, bitter chocolate & soil. Sweet, bitter, malty & roasty taste. Soft, round, tiny astringent & tiny watery mouthfeel. Solid coffee stout.