Black Out
Bière Totale in Aarschot, Flemish Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.53
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Benzai (24515) reviewed Black Out from Bière Totale 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared with Countbeer, train tasting. Opaque black color, average sized light brown head. Aroma is quite pleasant, malts, soft roast, dark malts. Taste malts, dark malts soft roast, slight toffee, slight liquorice, a slight hint of left over sugar but in balance with the overall bitterness. Medium body, average carbonation. Not bad.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Black Out from Bière Totale 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
At Diesters Bierfestival. An attempt at RIS... Medium thick, creamy, light beige head, colour is a very dark ruby red, blackish but still completely translucent - which is not what I expect from an imperial stout. Aroma has a lot of liquorish, apart from butterscotch, cold black coffee, cardboard, chocolate liqueur, cinnamon, dried banana, brown rhum and varnish-like phenols, in all pleasant but lacking in ’black maltiness’. Same for the taste: candied cherry sweetness at first with a vague sourish touch, soft carbonation, lean, resinous and smooth mouthfeel but clearly too thin body for the intended style, caramelly with a light roasted coffee bitter accent in the end as well as some peppery hops and a dash of warming, rhum-like alcohol. This is a very pleasant beer for sure, but not a stout in the true sense of the word and certainly not an imperial one. Have a point for the original and informative label, though.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Black Out from Bière Totale 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 330ml. @ [ PBF X ] Petalax Beer Festival 2015 by oh6gdx, Petalax, Finland. [ As Biere Totale Black Out ].Clear dark black brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, molasses, dark malt, sugary, tobacco. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a long duration, roasted, chocolate, molasses, sugary, tobacco, light belgium yeast. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. [20150725]
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Black Out from Bière Totale 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Belgian Beer Shop, Leuven. Dark brown beer, dark brown foam that disappears quickly. Soft carbonation. Roastiness with sweet notes of caramel. Typical Belgian imperial stout but drinkable and not bad at all!
oh6gdx (51139) reviewed Black Out from Bière Totale 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled@PBF X. Small off-white head on a black body. Aroma is tobacco, some wood, liquorice, mild spices and some alcohol as well. Flavour is tobacco, some alcohol sweetness, floral wooden and mild spicy notes.
TBone (30139) reviewed Black Out from Bière Totale 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle at PBFX. Opaque black color, small beige head. Medicinal and sweaty horse saddle aroma. Medium-bodied. Licorice and very medicinal. Some caramel. Odd.
omhper (44752) reviewed Black Out from Bière Totale 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2
Bottled at Petalax Beer Festival. Dark brown, small head. Chlorine and milk chocolate up front. Sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Chemical caramel, chocolate sauce, tobacco and medicin. Syrupy. Terrible.
Hermod (17967) reviewed Black Out from Bière Totale 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
33cl bottle @PBF X. Roasty, licorice, molasses in aroma. Roastedness, lots of tobacco here in flavor, molasses, sweetness and roasty. Not bad.
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Black Out from Bière Totale 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Belgian Imperial stout... The thought itself brings shivers to my spine. Even though we have some of the best ( Struise, for instance ) , Belgians do suck, usually, in stouts ( let alone imperial ones). The pour immediately agrees with me. Clear, dark brown, not thick at all. Foam dies very fast, but used to be small and a darker shade of white. Smell is straight roasted grains. Simple, but OK. Taste is intense, aromatic dark malts with much coffee, oats, roastyness. Some aspects of very, very dark chocolate that build up towards the aftertaste. Rather bitter. I think many ( as in too many ) dark malts were used here, since the taste is very intense on that side, and not really balanced anymore. Besides the lack of a good MF of an Imperial stout, and the too light color on the pour, the taste aint too bad though... It proves indeed that Belgian still has a lot to learn in this style, but at least this outcome was better drinking than I expected... Lets just dont call it Imperial stout, OK guys ? ( kinda insults all the great Imperial stouts of this world )
77ships (14506) reviewed Black Out from Bière Totale 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
330 ml. bottle @ home. Purchased @ Willems & Zoon. BBF 01/01/2018. Black, light dark brown, small mocha head. Nose is very sweet heavy liquorish, dark sugar, caramel, thick very sweet syrup malts but liquorish dominates. Taste is herbal, thin, grainy, strong liquorish, herbal, light paint thinner alcohol, cheap chocolate syrup, molasses, chemicals, strong paint thinner, chemical,… Thin, paint thinner, grainy, cheap syrup body,… A very Belgian RIS in all the wrong ways aka very heavy liquorish, thin, herbal, overly boozy,… It isn’t terrible but it really isn’t what it should be.