7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

33cl bottle, thanks Tim.
BB 17/10/2020, bottled 17/04/2020.
Noire/brune oscillant vers le cuivre opaque, le col est fin blanc-cassé.
Arôme est malté - caramel, pâle, avec une belle dose de fruité noire rappelant les baies dont les mûres avec le tourbé en rétro-nasal.

Palais sur une effervescence faiblarde mais avec un léger pétillant 'suret', le tout accompagné d'un agréable côté tourbé qui ajoute un caractère vivace terreux. Petite touche acerbe et un pétillant qui rappelle quasi une levure de cidre avec de suite un fin tourbé en retrait.

8.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle from take-away. Hazy black, small, frothy, beige head. Aroma of dried fig, prune, mocha, chocolate powder, peated whisky, earth, dark fudge, beef jerky, burnt sugar. Taste has sweet fig, prune & pear, incorporated in a thick chocolatey & fudge-like malt body with a sourish brambleberry undertone; a bit nutty & earthy-umami in the middle, smokiness throughout. Earthy hoppy finish, smoky-meaty aspect pairing well with chocolate & coffee powder, expected warming peated whisky alcohol in the very end. Full body, oily texture, soft carbonation. Massive effort by Brouwbar; extremely elegant & balanced Stout enhanced by the peated profile whilst avoiding the pitfalls of more gimmicky brews in that domain.

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7.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

12/VI/20 - on tap @ Brouwbar (Gent), BB: n/a (2020-498)

Clear black beer, small creamy beige head, little stable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: good roast, caramel, coffee, dark chocolate, charcoal, bit malty, gentle smoky touch, peated. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: soft roast, nice bitterness, bitter coffee, some charcoal, slightly sourish, pretty dry. Aftertaste: soft smoke, slightly peated, good roast, some alcohol, slightly sourish.

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

New strong stout by Ghent's Brouwbar, brewed with whisky malt (dried with peat) and released during the coronavirus lockdown. Again thanks to Steve for getting me the bottle! Yellowish beige, mousy, regularly shaped, slowly opening but generally stable head on a black beer with thin, hazy burgundy edges. Aroma of roasted walnuts, dry peat indeed but no iodine or other exaggerated peat features, old cocoa powder, whisky, dried figs, cappuccino, toffee, even milk chocolate, bay leaf, blackberry jam, marmite, cashew nuts, vague undertone of dry beef stock cubes. Sweetish onset with slight blackberry-ish sourish edge, fig, stewed pear and raisin impressions, softishly carbonated; full, oily body. Smooth toffeeish and bitter chocolatey maltiness fills the mouth, with both sweet cashew nuts and bitter roasted coffee effects on the sides, but the latter aspect remains soft and mild; the peat, however, takes over at this point, adding its typical earthiness and spiciness without becoming overly dominant. Ground nuts-like 'dustiness' and a leafy, bit spicy hop bitterness grace the finish, highlighted by a gently warming, whisky-like alcohol glow, while chocolate powder and dry caramel aspects linger on. Wow, this is impressive indeed: Brouwbar has been gradually improving its stout interpretations from variant to variant, but this to me is the true culmination of those efforts, shaping an intrinsically robust beer type into something that shows enough audacity while still remaining true to Brouwbar's house style of elegance, smoothness and cleanness. A truly fantastic stout in my book and certainly among Brouwbar's greatest creations so far. Kudos to Benjamin (the brewer).