Weich röstiger Antrunk. Angenehm getreidig, dezente Süße. Spritzig, steigende Würzigkeit. Vollmundig, rund. 10/11/11/10//11

Bouteille 33cl, bottled 28/11/2016. Brune foncée frôlant le noir, col épais et crémeux café au lait. Arôme est fin malté, grillé, léger chocolaté, pointe de minéral venant des huitres avec un chocolat ressortant bien en rétro, l’accompagnement houblonné reste modéré. Palas est léger malté, pointe de chocolat, café et grillé. Petite touche minérale voire saline avec une ponctuation rappelant la réglisse. Houblonné versant sur le noble, finement citronné, sec et amer sur la fin. Ok avec encore un fini poussiéreux.

Oyster and coffee stout (first time I encounter this combination), draught sample at BBF last week, rating from memory as I apparently forgot to take notes of this one - I’m getting old. Creamy, pale beige head over a black beer, toasted bread, coffee grounds, bitter chocolate, leather, some candied fig and cloves in the nose, sweetish, rounded flavor with dried fruits in the onset, supple and smooth mouthfeel, bit oily, nutty and toasted, bittersweet with black coffee impressions and spicy hop bitter touch in the end; I do not, however, remember any saltiness from oyster shells - but then, I had a Scheldebrouwerij Oesterstout last week in more ’contemplative’ circumstances and did not really pick out saltiness of any kind, seafood or not, from that one either. In any case a pleasant stout, this Cassandra, interesting enough for me to get out and purchase a new bottle for rerating in more detail.

Pours black, good to big off-white head. Smell is rather intense, roasty, bit sweet almost. taste is intense, much bitterrness ( to my surprise) and not sweet at all, in contradiction to the sweet hints i had in the scent. truth be told, i never really seem to taste oysters in oyster stouts. perhaps, oyster shells dont have so much taste to bring to a beer , or it’s just that my pallet isn’t refined enough to taste it. Anyway, a random notice of mine - it seems rather poorly formulated ( I quote from the current description) ’’The shells are taken from the Siphon restaurant where the oysters have been freshly prepared and consumed by visitors earlier on brew day.’’ Basically, it sounds like a nice way to say ’we took the leftovers from the customers and brewed a beer with it’ . perhaps this could be changed in something... better ? I’m sure they didn’t want it to sound that way haha. the beer on itself is perfectly fine. All that needs to be there, is there. Whilst it’s def more on the bitter side, it’s still pretty balanced. Seems fit to pair with food as well. Well done, Siphon. best beer of all 44 i tried so far, and even though i prefer big, thick , intense stouts, this one is pretty alright as well !

Tap at One Pint Pub, Helsinki. Colour is dark brown with large brownish head. Aromas and flavors: Grain, coffee, some chocolate, dryness and roasted malts.

(Keg at One Pint Pub, 20161216) The beer poured black. Its head was medium sized and lightly brown. Aroma had cocoa, dark chocolate and creamy coffee. Palate was full bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were coffee, burnt malts, ash, sweetness and bitterness. Aftertaste was ashy and bitter. A brew with good aroma but too burnt finish.

15/10/2016 - draft sample @ Bles Bierhappening. Black colour with creamy darktanned head. Nose is roasted malts and coffee, some licorice. Taste starts a bit creamy, sweet, than dry roasted malts, some coffee and chocolate. Third beer from this brewery and again a good one.

Draught Very good darker mossy-cream head, stable, over jet-black beer with textbook lace. Roasted, liquorice. I do detect mineral, but it remains pretty hidden, latent. In the background there’s another aroma, not unlike other grains or buckwheat, difficult to define; benzene. Liquorice, very roasted, again just a hint @ mineral. Lots of restsugars, no real stoutacidity. Medium bodied at least, again slick (~the other grainsaroma). Good stout, but nothing more. Br Retasted 17/02/2019 bottled Main difference being a much more obvious presence of the oyster shells, especially in the nose which can be qualified as salty. More balance in the flavour, but with again the salinity obvious. +1 point.