CharlesRoy Asphalte
La Manufacture Urbaine in Charleroi, Hainaut, Belgium 🇧🇪
Porter Regular|
Score
6.69
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
On tap. Pours black with short tan head. Aromas of roasted malts and black coffee. Flavors of same.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed CharlesRoy Asphalte from La Manufacture Urbaine 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Porter from a 75 cl bottle with hangtag, brewed by a new company in Charleroi which apparently is more than just a brewery, but promotes other artisanal products like bread and coffee. Interesting concept, and nice to see a new beer producer opt for a porter rather than some classic Belgian beer style. Slow gusher, but manageable. Very thick and rocky, towering high, pale greyish beige, lightly lacing, stable head over a cloudy chestnut brown beer, very dark - almost near-black - but still translucent, with mahogany-bronze hue. Aroma of dried plums, tree leaves fermenting on a wet forest floor in autumn, damp clay, soggy toast, moldy acorn shells, coffee grounds, old nutmeg powder, dried elderberries, walnut, red apple, baker's yeast, baked banana, old crumbling cheese, caramel. Dried fruits in the onset, fig- and dried banana slice-like sweetishness but not overly estery and balanced by a deep, blackberry juice-like sourishness which even grows further on in the mouth, eventually feeling a bit infected; very fizzy carbonation, too sharp for a porter. Butterscotch- and walnut-like, eventually toasted maltiness, only restrainedly sweetish, more bitter especially in the finish; the infected sourness accent lasts till the end, where it meets a very earthy, phenolic, 'dirty' yeastiness as well as an earthy and very herbal, tea-ish hop bitterness. The premise here is interesting and decent enough, but clearly this beer needs to be cleaned up, seems lightly infected, too phenolic and way too 'dirty yeasty' for a porter. Still enjoyable enough, though.