Stout

Bottle (from Noel Cuvelier) at home - 20/10/12. Obscured copper brown (too light a shade for a stout in my opinion) with an off white head that soon clears. Nose is thin, comprises treacle toffee, lactose, brown sugar, dark fruit tones. Tastes of sweet toffee, sugar, more sugar - meh! Medium bodied veering towards watery, spritzy carbonation leading to a sweet finish. Sweet, shit - meh !

(bottle, 33cl) Dark brown colour with a beige and medium-sized foamy head. Sweet and skunky malty aroma with traces of molasses, beet sugar, vegetables and sulphur. Extremely sweet flavour, light to medium bodied with a flat carbonation. Sugary malt-character, slightly roasted with molasses and veggie notes; artificially sweet and sticky finish. Undrinkable in my opinion. 12.VI.12

Imported from my RateBeer account as Leroy Stout (by Leroy):
Aroma: 4/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 2/10, Palate: 2/5, Overall: 3/20, MyTotalScore: 1.4/5

7/VII/2012 - 25cl bottle @ Bierjutterij (Oostende) - BB: n/a (2012-699)

Clear dark brown beer, creamy beige head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: caramel, overripe fruits, bit flowery. MF: ok carbon, light to medium body. Taste: sugar, sugar, caramel, sugar, overripe banana, sugar, sugar, bit metallic and sugar. Aftertaste: ditto. Bluh.

Brown 33cl bottle, best before 08/2009, drank 02/2009. Poured into a Forbidden Fruit chalice. Many years ago I had a bottle of this in Liege (Belgium), it was out of date by a few years or two and tasted awful. I have always remembered disliking but couldn’t remember why. On a resent trip to Belgium I came across the beer again, so bought one to review. Looked great at first, deep, deep ruby red, almost black to the naked eye, but held to a light source the true colour becomes more apparent. The large tan coloured head fell away far to swiftly, but the beer still looked OK even as the head shrank. No hints on serving temp, I think it might have been too cold at first because I couldn’t smell a thing. Not even the sweetness that was about to smack into my mouth as I took the first sip of the sickliest beer I think I’ve ever had. Towards the end of my self imposed desire to finish off the monster the true sweetness aroma began to appear. A fairground toffe apple, candyfloss, bilious, nauseating smell filled the chalice and my nose. Incredible and intense sweetness in the taste, more like a malty sweet nasty than a beer. I had to get some oatmeal salted biscuits to help me finish the beer (I don’t chuck beer away, I perserve to the end). Carbonisation was a bit heavy, but as I couldn’t get past the sweetness does it matter? Avoid like the plague, unless of course you are into really sweet beers, which I am not.

Bottle at home in London. Pours brown with a frothy, tan head. Some distinct male body odor in the aroma. It’s dead on B.O. with hints of dark malts. Flavor is unpleasantly sweet with straight sugar, sweat, dark sugar, mushy bread. Light to medium bodied with average carbonation. Sickly sweet finish, some earth, very faint roast, more sugar. Ech, this isn’t good at all.

33cl Bottle from Brugs Bier Festival. Clear dark reddish brown colour, beige head. Aroma of malts, dark fruits and caramel. Flavour is very sweet, sugar, caramel, malts, cola. No bitterness. Light to medium bodied. Way too sweet, stout name unworthy.