RelaTiny
Gistgeest in Deurne, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.79
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nathanvc (6963) reviewed RelaTiny from Gistgeest 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
6 October 2018. At Modeste Bierfestival, Antwerp. Cheers to Anke & Elke!
Hazy black with a lasting, thin, frothy, beige head. Aroma of roasted peanut, fondant, black tea, burnt caramel, pear syrup, prune. Taste is light to medium roasted bitter, balancing coffee roast & roasted peanut, turning light malty sweet, chocolatey & caramelly with a touch of herbs & sourish prune. Dryish, toasty finish, lingering nutty maltiness, coffee roast, faint herbal & earthy hops, quite apparent, warming herbal liqueur alcohol. Medium, almost full body, slick/oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Belgian-style Quad Porter, anyone? Not a bad first attempt, needs some polishing indeed.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed RelaTiny from Gistgeest 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Coffee porter by this brand new Antwerp microbrewery, at Modeste 2018, Gistgeest's first public appearance. Thick and frothy, yellowish pale beige, moussy head over nearly pitch black beer with thin purplish-burgundy edges. Aroma of milk chocolate and even Ersatz chocolate ('koetjesreep'), fondant, hot black coffee, black peppercorn, burnt toast, brandy, methylated spirits even, beef stock, moist Cuban cigars. Sweet onset with umami edge, dried fig and slight beef stock, very strong and sharp overcarbonation (painful even and obviously way too much for an 8% ABV porter), slick but full, bit oily body, chocolatey and nutty maltiness, toffee but quickly turning roasted bitter, a bit ashy, with the roastedness strongly reinforced by a black bitter coffee effect and peppery hops - but then badly hidden, burning, whisky-like alcohol shows up way too early and way too brutally, strongly increasing the bitterness and creating a wry finish. Clearly needs more finesse and restraint, alcohol should be much better masked and carbonation as well as the coffee factor should be reined in - but apart from those obvious flaws, I must admit I that its robustness and daringness (in a Belgian context) demands some respect and considering the fact that I did like the other Gistgeest I tasted, there is no doubt that I will give this a second chance when I encounter it again.