33cl bottle from Prik&Tik Kampenhout, Belgium. F: huge, tanned, good retention. C: dark brown with red hue against the light. A: sweet malty, bit dark dried fruits, cocoa, bubble gum, banana, red apples peels, bit chocolate. T: full malty base, dark fruits, bit herbal, cocoa, bit chocolate, red apples, nice balanced bitterness, banana, soft to medium carbonation, they either change the receipt or at least change the ingredients because this is ok for Belgian Ale - Strong Dark style, enjoyed.

Commissioned beer commemorating the miners of the Limburgian coalmines of days gone by (the last one having been closed back in 1992), steinie bottle from Drinkhall Geenen in Balen. As Koolputter Zwart, renamed apparently since the advent of a blonde version. Thick and frothy, dense, creamy, egg-white, stable and tightly lacing head, lightly hazy deep brownish-bronze robe with coppery hue – but certainly not black. Aroma of caramel candy, quite strong iron (head stabilizer no doubt), bubblegum, butterscotch, fried banana, dry teabags, soggy peanuts, brown sugar, dried fig, apple peel, plastic. Sweet onset, rather cleanish, brown-sugary but not too cloying, fizzy carb, hints of fig, apple and banana; slick, resinous, full body, very clearly metallic on the edges with a bubblegummy effect as well. Ends sweet and malty with lingering metallic and bubblegummy notes as well as – unsurprisingly – a lot of ‘jenever’-like booze as well as a herbal, tea-ish hop bitter touch, however failing to add the bitterness that would have been very welcome here. Metallic, sweet, bubblegummy Belgian strong ale, not very pleasant really – and how their website dares to qualify this as an ‘imperial stout’, I’ll never know. Very clearly this brewer has never tasted an actual imperial stout the way it should be done… Disappointing!

Fles thuis geprobeerd met LiekevdV. Het is een diep donker roodbruin bier met een medium creme schuimkraan. Het heeft een moutige wat zoete geur. de Smaak is moutig en wat dropachtig.

33cl bottle. Pours clear dark reddish brown colour with a huge good lasting beige head. Aroma of strong dark malt, some red fruits/berries. Taste of strong dark malt, riped fruits, some molasses, alcohol is present.

@Camping Ratebeer 2015, caramel met licht gekleurde kraag. aroma van caramel en mout en graan, suikerzoet. smaken zijn zoet, caramel, licht zuur, matige body, niet bijzonder --- Beer merged from original tick of Koolputter Zwart on 24 May 2018 at 16:37 - Score: 6

Clear caramel colour, white head. Malty aroma, caramel, brown sugar. Sweet caramel flavour. Finish caramel, malts.
(from bottle @ Camping Ratebeers ’15, Nat en Vochtig)

Bottle @benzai. Almost the same as the previous one. A quadrupel marketed as a stout. It?s not even black. It? dark copper maybe. You can taste the alcohol, it?s very sweet, not roasty. Not my beer.