Belgicus Dark Coal
La Brasserie Belge in Herstal, Liège, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
6.28
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A clear dark brown beer with a white lacing. Aroma of tart dark fruits, caramel, coffee. Taste of sweet dark chocolate malt, some coffee, liquorice, moderate carbonation.
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Deutlicher Kaffeegeruch. Im Antrunk etwas zu süß, viel Laktose, deutliche Kaffenoten. Milde Herbe, konstante Malzigkeit, mittellanger Abgang, Milchkaffee. 8/7/7/7/6/7
Erzengel (18528) ticked Belgicus Dark Coal from La Brasserie Belge 5 years ago
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Belgicus Dark Coal from La Brasserie Belge 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Especially the province of Liège seems to be teeming with new microbreweries in recent years, and this is one of them, “La Brasserie Belge” in Herstal, translating simply as ‘the Belgian brewery’. Shared with Meeki Meekio. Pale beige, mousy, lightly lacing, opening head on a blackish beer with hazy chestnut edges. Aroma of milk chocolate with hazelnuts, caramel, nutmeg, damp earth touch, cola, clove-like phenols, toast, compost. Sweet onset, fig- and somewhat black cherry-like notes with a light sourish edge to it; softish carb, creamy and soft mouthfeel, though perhaps not quite as creamy as one would expect from a typical – modern – milk stout. Caramelly and brown-bready maltiness, sweet with indeed a somewhat milk-chocolatey feel to it, developing a gentle toasted bitterishness in the finish; a dead leaf- and bread crumb-like yeastiness lingers, pushing forward quite outspoken clove-like phenols and depositing an earthiness amidst the lingering sweetness and maltiness. Too Belgian-yeasty for the style, a mistake often made in Belgian attempts at stouts in general, with unnecessary earthiness and spiciness as a result; that said, milk stouts are a very uncommon style here and there aren’t many Belgian milk stouts around for comparison. Still an enjoyable beer for sure, it just needs a bit of cleaning up.