Noire du Midi Cassis
Nanobrasserie de l'Ermitage in Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Porter Special Out of Production|
Score
7.16
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8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Cassis-flavoured version of Ermitage's excellent hoppy porter Noire du Midi, draught at the brewery's premises, thanks Goedele! Creamy, pale coffee cream tan coloured, lacing, slowly opening head, very dark purplish burgundy robe, blackish in general appearance. Aroma of coffee beans and cappuccino, toasted walnuts, dried blackcurrant more than actual cassis, liquorice, black bitter chocolate, dried figs, old raisins, wet leather, bayleaf, hazelnuts. Low in sweetness, some raisin, dried blackcurrant flavour indeed with a soft sourish effect, fizzy carbonation, nut shell- and bitter chocolate-like malt body, dry and developing into coffeeish roasted bitterness, bit rooty and chicory-like in the end, while that mellow blackcurrant tartness keeps cutting through it; ends bitterish and sourish with a soft nutty sweetish note. I am not the greatest fan of fruit porters but this is exactly how I like them, I already fell in love with the basic beer but this, contrary to my expectations, is a wonderful elaboration on the theme.
Tried
on 04 May 2018
at 22:23
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft @ Ermitage Taproom, post-Quintessence 2018. Brune foncée, col beige fin café au lait, petit doré au verre. Arôme est malté sur léger grillé et finement chocolaté, retrouve un agréable effet fruité noir en rétro sans enlever le caractère houblonné de ce porter. Cassis perce bien. Palais est malté, fin grillé et chocolaté dans un effet anglais au niveau malté, retrouve ici un côté un êu plus suret venant du cassis qui apporte une profondeur de fruits noirs qui se marie bien au côté grillé et malté du porter. Le tout me laisse presque penser à la réglisse et cassis.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 May 2018
at 07:00
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
(On tap @ L'Ermitage, Brussels, May 1/18) Pours very dark brown with a decent-sized pale brown head and some soda bubbles. Notes of chocolate, roasted/toasted grains, dark bread, touches of nuts, light tart black currant, lightly to moderately sweet with a little roast bitterness. Light to medium body with overly high carbonation. I was a bit disappointed but I think that might come down to the mouthfeel as much as the flavours, coupled with desperately needing a break as 2 bar sessions and Quintessence preceded that visit to L'Ermitage.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 May 2018
at 20:16
7/10
Fajnie czuc te porzeczki, ale stoucika tez niezle, milo pijalne, pocieszne kwaskowate posmaki
Tried
at
Brasserie de l'Ermitage
on 01 May 2018
at 18:41