330ml bottle from Le Comptoir Vins et Bieres, St Malo. Pours hazed dark, good off-white head. Chocolate-coated raspberry notes coming through on the nose alongside a strong roasty presence. Flavour profile continues along these lines, raspberry jars a bit against the roast and firm bitterness, but it does get more palatable as you journey through.

Light raspberry, slight coffee roast, thin and delicate.

Black with thin head. Aroma and flavour have a surprisingly floral note. Also dark choclate. Nicely bittersweet.

Dry stout by this new microbrewery in northwestern France, tasted at BXL Beerfest. Creamy, medium thick, pale mocha-beige, regularly shaped head, black robe. Aroma of coffee grounds and old black coffee, touch liquorish, chewing gum, rainwater, hard caramel candy, walnut. Sweetish onset but restrainedly so, minerally aspects, dried fig and raisin notes but hardly any sourishness or umami to increase complexity, therefore coming across as a tad neutral; slick, bit bubblegummy more than actual ‘velvetiness’ from oats, medium carbonated body, nutty with a soft roasty bitterish edge, more leafy hop bitterness in the finish but again relatively soflty so, lingering hard caramel effect. Accessible, easygoing example of a dry stout and decent enough to French standards, but nothing exciting outside of that context.