7th September 2018
HL1. Keg. Opaque dark brown beer, small tan head. Smooth palate, decent fine carbonation. Sweetiwh dark malts, tangy. Plenty of foffee. Some esters. Light spicy finish. Not bad.

From tap at Perennial. Dark brown to black color with beige head. Malty aroma, roasted, chocolate, cocoa, caramel, light fruity. Sweet and light bitter taste. Light oily body with soft carbonation.

Bottle - pours dark brown tan head - nose and taste of orange zest, roast chocolate, milk sugar - medium body

Sweet stout by Perennial, at Gollem, thanks Filip for sharing. Some last tiny beige-ish bubbles cling to the edge here and there but otherwise the head was already completely gone when I tasted it; blackish robe with hazy burgundy hue. Rich aroma very reminiscent of brown rum or even Bacardi mixed with cola, coffee liqueur, kahlua, walnut oil, melting chocolate, pronounced orange peel, brandy, vanilla beans, Mandarine Napoléon. Sweet and sourish onset, fresh fig with again a strong orange peel side effect adding colour and freshness, very soft (if not flat) carb, thick hazelnutty and caramelly malt body, sweet indeed but with a dim sourishness underneath providing balance. Finishes rich but very boozy and heating as well, very rum-like with orange liqueur- and brandy-like notes as well, yet avoiding unpleasant astringency; meanwhile the rich, thick, sweet maltiness lingers, deeply seeped in this bright orange peel element, which keeps brightening things up. As usual with these hefty Perennials, a great, aromatic, deep and rich beer, even if the rum-like nose is a bit much for me personally.

Pours black, small tanned head. Smell is rather weak, bit roasty, tad sweet. Taste is tad liquorice, sweet, dark chocolate. The orange gives a weird side taste. Not my thing, but not as bad as the scores resemble.

Vom Fass im Muted Horn 2018-07 getrunken. Ein Imperial Milk Stout mit Mandarinen und Orangen also. Hmmm, also von den Citrusfrüchten ist nur mit etwas Fantasy was zu entdecken. Das Stout selbst ist wunderbar cremig und sanft am Gaumen und hat eine tolle Schokoladennote. Vielleicht hätten sie die Früchte weglassen sollen denn so hat dieses leckere Stout ein unharmonisches Aroma was schwer zuzuordnen ist.

0,2l from tap at Muted Horn. black color, small coffee colored head. smells vanilla, earthy, spices, peppery, bitter herbal. nice smell. full body, ligh carbonation, slick mouthfeel. tastes earthy, spices, bitter herbal, light cinnamon, peppery, vanilla. finishes dry and lightly roasty with notes of spices, peppery notes and some vanilla. Quite nice one, a bit heavy on vanilla and spices.

Draught. Cocoa and dry liquorice aroma. Black colour. Very small white. Sweet liquorice flavour. Nicely spicy, tastes like cardamom. Late cocoa powder note.