Dukus Bear
De Laatste Drinker in Gent, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.00
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Dukus Bear, a melting pot of cacao, vanilla, coffee, and cardamom. Cocoa husks give a clean chocolate flavor, and a cold brew adds roasty coffee notes. Cardamom contributes the exotic spicy punch which the vanilla blends in a smooth and warming brew.
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6/10
330ml bottle (thanks FatPhil). Roast, dry, grainy, dusty, coffee, alcohol, watery in aroma/taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2022
at 12:54
7/10
Pudel. Magus, röstine, jalapeno vms "rohelist ja marineeritud"? röst, nats šokolaadine, vesine, linnaseline. Ok.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Aug 2022
at 10:58
7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Imperial porter intégrant fève de cacao, café, vanille et cardamome, ce Dukus Bear a le double défaut d'avoir des arômes de malts torréfiés pas assez affirmés mais surtout de posséder des arômes de cardamome bien trop présents, déséquilibrant l'alliance aromatique. En verre, nous sommes sur un noir total surmonté d'une mousse brune de 3 mm. Joli nez sur le café, chocolat, vanille et un léger caramel. On aurait apprécié avoir le même cocktail à la dégustation. L'attaque n'est pas des plus réussis, un peu trop sur la fraîcheur, l'amertume sur les devants avec cardamome, vanille et café en retrait mais également avec une base plus douce aux accents de banane s'intégrant mal. La texture fine, n'a pas non plus ma préférence. L'équilibre malt/houblon s'améliore très nettement en seconde bouche mais avec une présence épicée qui devient beaucoup trop importante. La corpulence est correcte, sans plus. La complexité n'est pas non plus impressionnante. L'alcool, quant à lui, à 9,5 % soutient convenablement la structure. Le final, long n'amène pas de nouveautés. Trop d'imperfections.
Tried
on 24 Jan 2020
at 12:45
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Dark brown colour, brown foam. Almost no nose, some roasted malts and spices. Very messy beer. Watery, too much carbonation, burning spices. not my cup of tea. Drain pour.
Tried
on 11 Feb 2019
at 18:43
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 July 2018. Gentse Feesten @ Brouwbar! Shared with Anke.
Pours cloudy black with a lasting, thin, beige head; little lacing. Intense aroma of espresso, coffee & cream, fondant, praliné, salted peanut, milk chocolate, vanilla, roasted malt, coffee liqueur, sweet tobacco & spices. It tastes medium malty sweet, hints of cream & subtle vanilla, and light roasted bitter, fondant & coffee, a bit spicy (Dr. Cardemom, I presume?), already warming in alcohol. Dryish, toasty, peppery hoppy finish, lingering malt & vanilla, warming coffee liqueur alcohol. Full body, oily texture, soft to fizzy carbonation. Quite my style, balanced but buoyant.
Pours cloudy black with a lasting, thin, beige head; little lacing. Intense aroma of espresso, coffee & cream, fondant, praliné, salted peanut, milk chocolate, vanilla, roasted malt, coffee liqueur, sweet tobacco & spices. It tastes medium malty sweet, hints of cream & subtle vanilla, and light roasted bitter, fondant & coffee, a bit spicy (Dr. Cardemom, I presume?), already warming in alcohol. Dryish, toasty, peppery hoppy finish, lingering malt & vanilla, warming coffee liqueur alcohol. Full body, oily texture, soft to fizzy carbonation. Quite my style, balanced but buoyant.
Tried
on 27 Jul 2018
at 09:52
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled @ Tilburg Bierfestival 2018. Opaque pitch black color, medium sized light brown colored head that lasts for a decent while. Aroma is malts, liquorice, laurel, some herbs or spices. Taste malts, again laurel, liquorice and herbs / spices, maybe something salty. Think the base is quite good but the laurel and liquorice is over the top. Too much for my liking anyway.
Tried
on 29 Jun 2018
at 07:32
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
05/05/2018 @home - 33cl bottle from a trade with tderouck. Black colour with medium tanned head. Nose is coffee, lots of spices, bit chocolate, alcohol. Taste start roasted, coffee, some caramel, bit vanilla, heavy spiced, malty ending with some alcohol. Could seem unbalanced because of the outspoken spice character but it didn't bother me, I even seemed to like it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 May 2018
at 07:02
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours black medium sized tanned head. Smell is mild coffee, not very intense. Taste is tad bitter, coffee, sharp, bit metallic. Very roasty, tad unbalanced. Mild stickyness ( too much roasted malts ) . Tad thin, high carbo. Meh...
Tried
on 07 Apr 2018
at 10:27
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Black with thin lacy head. Aroma is very intense with strong coffee. Flavour has a great mix of cacao and coffee and dark roasty malt notes in the finish. Smooth and full bodied.
Tried
on 18 Mar 2018
at 18:53
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as De Laatste Drinker Dukus Bear (by De Laatste Drinker):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5
23/II/18 - 33cl bottle @ Kantien (Gent) - BB: 8/XII/19 (2018-204)
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit sweet, alcohol, vanilla touch, sweet, caramel, some nail polish. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty roasted, sweet, banana peel, alcohol, spicy, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: bitter, roasted, dry, some cocoa powder, spicy touch.
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5
23/II/18 - 33cl bottle @ Kantien (Gent) - BB: 8/XII/19 (2018-204)
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit sweet, alcohol, vanilla touch, sweet, caramel, some nail polish. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty roasted, sweet, banana peel, alcohol, spicy, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: bitter, roasted, dry, some cocoa powder, spicy touch.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2018
at 19:08