7.9

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

Tap at La Source, 11th September 2025. Pours black and thick. Aroma is heavy coffee with chocolate. Taste is quality coffee, bitter chocolate, sweet, well balanced and enjoyable

8

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7.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at La Source taproom, Brussels, Saturday 1st October 2022 in the company of Lynn and Barry, on Barry's birthday. Pours black or as good as with a thin film of light beige. Coffee and a little cocoa powder on the nose. Smooth rich and creamy in the mouth, but plenty of coffee, this is nice.

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Aus der Dose (bbe 31.05.2022) im 2021-09 getrunken. Dieses Cappuccino Stout aus der Hybrid-Serie mit den Röstern von Wide Awake leugnet seinen Kaffee-Einfluss nicht. Dazu kommt eine schöne Süsse und ein sehr gut balancierter Körper. Wieder ein tolles Bier von La Source!

7.6

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

Very strong coffee stout by La Source, tasted from tap there (thanks Didier for the ride!). Medium thick, moussy, mocha-beige, irregular yet stable head on a jet black beer with thin, misty mahogany edges. Aroma of cold coffee (with milk) and coffee grounds, mocha ice cream, pecan nuts, rainwater, toffee, rum, chocolate, coffee cream, bayleaf, shoe polish. Sweet onset with light sourish edge, softish carb, full body; aspects of raisin and candied fig linger over a syrupy, chocolatey, deeply toffeeish maltiness, bittersweet with some residual caramelly sugariness adding to the 'coffee with milk' or cappuccino experience; some herbal bitterness from hops in the end, but actual roasted bitterness remains very mild, instead this sweet base lets the aromas of the coffee speak without picking up on the ingredient's inherent bitterness. Lots of warming rum-like alcohol in the end, but somehow the booze stays where it belongs, a testimony of this brewery's skills; their intention seems to have been to create a boozy, creamy, sweet, soft but dangerously drinkable coffee stout and that is exactly what you get.

8.4

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

Black with small beige head. Chocolate, coffee, capuccino, quite sweet with bitter finish. Soft texture. Medium bodied.

8.6

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

9/IV/21 - 33cl can from La Source webshop, shared @ home, BB: 23/XII/21 (2021-266)

Clear dark brown to black beer, practically no head, dissipates immediately. Aroma: coffee, very roasted, malty, more coffee, cocoa powder, dry and dusty impression. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: good roast, lots of coffee, some caramel, chocolate, pretty bitter, malty, soft acidity. Aftertaste: soft bitterness, roasted, sweet, caramel, some vanilla, pretty bitter, good roast, nice stuff, really good!

7.6

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

33cl can, BB 04/08/2021.
Brune foncée virant sur le noir, col fin crémeux café au lait, fin huileux filament doré au verre.
Arôme est délicat et marqué par le café, rétro offre une pointe de douceur lactose ponctué d'effluves de malt chocolaté, grillé - torréfié, pointe de fruits rouges qui complète l'ajout de cacao.

Palais est chargé en malté avec une belle note de café et grillé pour une effervescence plutôt basse qui accentue l'effet d'épaisseur - retrouve un léger fruité rouge rappelant la framboise et le cassis. Crémeux en bouche avec une belle onctuosité qui perdure tout au long. Douceur et rondeur des mats - petite touche crystal - caramel, chocolaté. En fin de bouche, retour d'une fine amertume de cacao et du houblon et sur la fin retour de cet effet fruité/baies rouges. Collant aux lèvres sur la fin. Amertume refait aussi son retour, enlevant un peu du caractère torréfié. Chaleur des 12% qui revient en fin de bouche avec un côté cacao, surtout en épaisseur de bouche, qui revient à la charge. Une cannette déjà plus que trop pour une personne.

9

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

330 ml. can purchaes at the brewery. Very dark brown going to a shade of black. Smells like sweet black bread with coffee and cream, chocolate big time. Taste is all sugar, cream, sweet coffee with a nice touch of espresso and black bread, thick very creamy body, sugar. I mean this is just spot and excellent really.