Bouteille 33cl. Brune foncée sur col crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme est marqué par les effluves de malts sur effet grillé, fin chocolaté avec léger retrait lactose le tout sur un bouquet restant très voire trop belge dans l'approche de base qui conserve un côté carapâle et noble. Palais est malté sur des notes caramel adouci rapprochant du mélanoïde, grillé et léger torréfié. Le tout garde un arrière-goût trop belge où le lactose n'a pas spécialement sa place. Doux sur note un peu ester avec une amertume noble. Pas mauvais mais rien de nouveau.

29 April 2018, at Zythos Bierfestival. Deputy Taster: Anke.
Hazy brown with a small, foamy, beige head; little lacing, some sediment. Aroma of milk chocolate, peanuts, cream & coffee liqueur (Bailey's), caramel, dough, light roasted malt, some vanilla. It tastes medium chocolatey sweet, with cream & vanilla notes, and light spicy & roasted bitter. Roasted & creamy finish with a dash of liqueur alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Somewhat unbalanced but hey, it's a Sweet Stout for a reason.

Bottle 330ml. @ home. [ As Crystalstick Olympic Stout ].Clear, sparkling, dark brown colour with a large - huge, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, dark malt, sweet malt, moderate yeasty, belgium yeast, sweet yeast, fruity yeast, raisin, dark fruit, licorice. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, candy, chocolate, dark malt, belgium yeast, fruity yeast, dark fruit, berry - lacto sour, sour - tart notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20180411] 6-3-6-3-12

Pours very dark caramelly brown. Big white head that seems very stable. Smell is mild, some burned malts. Taste is remotely bitter, high in creamyness. Simple, roasted maltyness ( giving the bitterness to the beer ) bit ashy. Don’t really get the lactose taste though. The carbo is high, and the body - appart from it’s well appreciated creamyness, a bit to the thin side. Ok in general. Can enjoy the glass I served myself without a problem, but i’m not overly convinced by it’s specific greatness.

Imported from my RateBeer account as Crystalstick Olympic Stout (by Crystalstick):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5

26/V/17 - 33cl bottle bought at ZBF (Leuven, 2017) @ pre-BBQ tasting, home - BB: n/a (2017-642)

Cloudy dark brown beer, big creamy beige head, pretty stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: sweet in the notes, caramel, soft roast, dried fruits, chocolate, bit spicy, cinnamon. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: sweet touch, mainly sourish, weird enough, roast, bitter touch, dried fruits, bit sweet. Aftertaste: some coffee, roasted, malty, grains, fruity impression, like some kind of jam.

Milk stout, the third one from this new brewing project, tasted at ZBF 2017. Regularly shaped, dense, creamy, pale greyish beige head, hazy and even ’muddy’, very dark chocolate brown colour, not entirely black as one would expect from a modern 7% stout. Aroma of cocoa diluted in tap water instead of milk, caramel, old raisins, coffee cream, lots of clove-like phenols, damp earth, mud, wet tree leaves, pear. Sweet, fruity onset, candied fig, raisin, blue plum and banana with a sourish brambleberry-like undercurrent, medium carbo establishing a soft, fluffy mouthfeel, on the creamy side but not as creamy as most other typical milk stouts, yet with unmistakable lactose sweetness throughout resting on top of a caramelly, vaguely cocoa-like malt sweetness with a very soft bitterish edge and a slight metallic effect somewhere; yeasty, ’dirty’, earthy finish with toffeeish sweetness continuing and lots of phenols retronasally. Drinkable but not nearly ’clean’ enough for the style, suffering from too much ’dirty earthiness’ and ill-placed Belgian phenols. Reminds me a bit of Brabant’s Aristophanes: lactose imposed on a ’dirty’ Belgian dubbel rather than a true stout, with unbalanced and somewhat weird end effect.