Black Out
Bierfirma Swiekes in Oud-Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Het NestBelgian Style - Quadrupel / Dark Strong Regular
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Score
6.93
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For the dark offspring of Swiekes, which saw the light in 2020, a recipe was developed with no less than 7 different types of malt and a handful of candied sugar. They all contribute to the broad and subtle flavor palette. However, don't expect a super sweet beer, but try to discover the various flavors and aromas and 'have a beargasm'. In the nose, there are fruity notes of banana, pear, raisin, citrus, and a hint of date. Also, there are notes of candied sugar and marzipan (almonds). Flavors of chocolate, licorice, coffee, raisins, and caramel with a very subtle underlying hop note. The whole provides a long finish that is experienced as both slightly bitter and slightly sweet.
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beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Black Out from Bierfirma Swiekes 10 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A clear reddish brown beer with a beige head. Aroma of raisins, strong dark malt, some raspberries. Taste of sweet strong dark malt raisins caramel.
jefverstraete (7489) reviewed Black Out from Bierfirma Swiekes 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Dark brown colour, beige foam. Nose of dried fruits, plums, a bit bready and some roasty notes.
Bierridder (4318) ticked Black Out from Bierfirma Swiekes 2 years ago
Franclh (7477) reviewed Black Out from Bierfirma Swiekes 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Fles 33cl thuis. Donker fruit, pruim, rozijn, kandij, malten, caramel, zacht, bittertonen, wat droog. (25-9-2022).
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Black Out from Bierfirma Swiekes 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Belgian strong dark (a ‘massieve ale’, as the OBP used to say) by a young (2020) client brewer in the Kempen region, brewing at first Pirlot and now Het Nest – so at least these guys are honest about that, which is more than exemplary in this day and age. Thickly paper-lacing, yellowish pale beige, irregular but thick, pillowy, stable head on a misty ruddy bronze-brown beer with mahogany glow, turning cloudy and darker brown with sediment. Aroma of soggy brown bread, old raisins, clove, cooked plum, rainwater, old gingerbread, moist white pepper, damp straw, vague ruby port and something sweaty in the background. Dried fruits in the onset, sweetish but not cloying at all, raisins and dried apple peel, fizzily carbonated; rounded body, brown-bready maltiness with a light caramelly edge, sweetish from malts more than residual sugars. Mild phenolic spicy notes in the finish (clove) along with a Scotch-like toasty bitter accent and herbal hop bitterishness, the bitter aspect accentuated a bit by gin-like alcohol. Some sweetness does linger, but the malt bitterness has more ‘power’ here than is typically the case in more ‘commercial’ examples of this (loose) style; as said above, this toasty aspect of it for me refers to the old Scotch tradition, which had a deep influence on strong Belgian brown ales in the 20th century (think of Belgian Christmas beers, for example). Very solid and frankly better than expected.