Bottle at home in Hackney - picked up From Etre. Pours deep brown with a frothy, beige cap. Medium sweet flavour, nice black coffee, dark chocolate, nips of ash, burnt toffee, scorched earth and raisins. Medium bodied with fine, velvety carbonation. Minimal warmth in the finish, hints of sticky burnt sugars, more fresh black coffee, toothy roast, earth, cocoa. Solid.

24/VIII/21 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ summer holiday in France, BB: I/2026, Lot 047/20 (2021-958)

Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, dissipates quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of coffee, caramel touch, milk chocolate, little malty. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: bitter, gentle roast, coffee notes, bit sweet, some caramel, more coffee, bitter roast, little hoppy. Aftertaste: more coffee, roasted, pretty bitter, caramel touch, bitter finish, some alcohol. Too much coffee for my liking, but not bad.

Bouteille 33cl, BB 01/2026, lot# 047/20.
Brune foncée, col épais crémeux moka tenace.
Arôme est d'emblée marqué par le café - ce denier, avec l'apport en malt, revêt des notes de chocolat, léger noisette, torréfié. En se réchauffant un peu, je note de petites pointes d'agrumes venant du café.

Palais est café, léger biscuité, chocolaté avec une pointe d'épice et de caramel. Douceur de lactose en retrait qui laisse un fini - bof. Brève amertume des houblons avec de suite un retour de douceur-sucré. Fini sec avec un retour des houblons et un côté poussiéreux.

Troisième de la série - de bonne facture, mais ici aussi, je déplore, comme sur la Kos, l'usage de lactose qui, pour moi, enlève du caractère complexe de la bière.

Muddy deep brown to black body. Sweet coffee aroma with liquorice. Moderately sweet moderately bitter flavour. Quite ok.

04-08-21 // 330ml bottle. Loads of roasted malts, bitter chocolate and obviously loads of coffee. Balance is good. A little more sweeter yet with enough roast character to counterbalance.

Bottled 330ml. -from Ambasada Zagreb. Black coloured, small to medium sized brownish head, ground coffee in the nose. Light roasted malt, ground coffee, slightly ashy and sugary with rather dry coffee finish.

33cl bottle from Prik & Tik Dranken Marlou. F: thin, tanned, quick gone. C: dark, opaque. A: rich dark malts, coffee roasted tones, tobacco, bit cocoa, nutty, herbal touch, dried dark fruits, bit caramel. T: medium to full malty base, cocoa, coffee, bit nutty, caramel, nice prominent long lasting bitterness, bit spicy, soft carbonation, very good, fully enjoyed.

Bottle from Geers. Cloudy black, thinning, beige head. Aroma of cold coffee, cigarette tobacco, pepper, cocoa nibs, toast, ash, roasted peanut. Taste has sweetish dried fig, prune & an almost tangible brown bread-like maltiness, subtle creamy undertone until distinct hints of hazelnut, peanut & chestnut take over, going over a bitter toasty & roasted coffee-like middle. Toasty, peppery & herbal hoppy finish, more pronounced tobacco & coffee roast, soft alcohol glow. Medium body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Very nicely balanced but unmistakeably a coffee Stout.