La  Croix du Rat Stout - Bière Noire de Caractère Irlandaise

Stout - Bière Noire de Caractère Irlandaise

 

La Croix du Rat in Saint-Cyprien (Dordogne), Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France 🇫🇷

  Stout Regular
Score
6.66
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 7
6°d’Alcool. C’est la bière de mes ancêtres (je suis né et ai grandi à Dublin)! Douce et puissante, pur malt d’orge avec une partie de malt noir qui donne un goût chocolat\café en équilibre avec le goût des fleurs de houblon.
 

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6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
17/VIII/24 - 75cl bottle @ GBV No-Festival-Bottle-Share, BB: V/2026, S.05.’24 (2024-768) Thanks to Cies for sharing the bottle!

Clear light brown to amber beer, small creamy beige head, stable, a bit adhesive. Aroma: very floral, soft roast, grains, soapy impression, more floral notes. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: soapy, soft roast, pretty bitter, a bit watery, dry, ok. Aftertaste: more floral notes, soapy, gentle roast, meh, ok but not great.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Aug 2024 at 17:00

6.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
The darkest beer from this small brewery in the Périgord. Stable, moussy, light beige head over a deep, dark mahogany brown beer - but not at all black as the ’stout’ designation would suggest. Aroma of toasted bread, hazelnuts, pear syrup, some vanilla or another elusive ethereal whiff, lots of caramel candy. Restrained estery fruitiness in the mouth, touch dried banana, bit oily mouthfeel, nutty, caramelly and toasted malts, light peppery hop touch but fading as quickly as it came, earthy, with above all continuing malt sweetness. In itself a pleasant enough beer, but in terms of style, this is clearly a miss: the brewer allegedly names it a stout for commercial reasons, but why not relabel it as a (brown) porter, which is much closer to the truth? I am confident that the local French audience will get used to it and that way, beer consumers from elsewhere will feel less ’fooled’... Anyway, thanks to Craftmember for sharing this and I did enjoy it, so I will not take "truth to style" into account here.
Tried from Can on 24 Aug 2015 at 15:27

7.3/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Thank you for sharing! Sampled bottled @ Gents Bierfestival 2015. Dark brown, little mocha. Nose is sweetish cacao powder, sugar, light toffee. Taste is sugar, caramel, light roast, cacao puffs, a bit weak & thin, caramel, malty, light bitterness. A bit thin & sugary. Decent but not outstanding.
Tried from Bottle on 23 Aug 2015 at 10:01

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Brown colour, off-white head. Malty aroma, caramel, sugars. Sweet malty flavour, caramel. Finish malts and caramel.
(from 33cL bottle @ VIP school, Gent. Thanks for sharing, craft beer enthusiast)
Tried from Bottle on 23 Aug 2015 at 07:00

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottled. A hazy red-brown beer with a tan head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, alcohol, and a bit of roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, caramel, and a bit of bread, leading to a dry roasted finish. Thanks humlelala for sharing.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Aug 2011 at 08:52

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of humlelala. Pours an unclear dark orangey brown with a small beige roast. Sweet roasty nose with a little vanilla. Medium body, hard roast with some dark fruits. Roasty finish. Pleasant. 240811
Tried from Bottle on 24 Aug 2011 at 08:51

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
75 cL bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. Roasted dark malty and slight breadish. Roasted malty, breadish and caramelish to light liqourice flavoured. Lingering malty and roasted finish.
Tried from Bottle on 24 Aug 2011 at 08:50