Bieren Cabardouche Escort Deluxe 2021

Escort Deluxe 2021

 

Bieren Cabardouche in Borgerhout, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Stout - Foreign / Extra Series
Score
6.97
ABV: 9.0% IBU: - Ticks: 2
Escort Deluxe 2021: koffie-cacao stout gerijpt op whiskeyvat.
Je hebt verwennen en u eens heel goed laten verwennen. En dan heb je Escort Deluxe: het summum van verwennerij. Ah ja, onze luxedame wil niet liever dan je helemaal te prikkelen en te paaien. En dan mag het er al eens decadent aan toegaan. Ben jij klaar voor een pekzwarte stout, met koffie en cacaobonen van twee Antwerpse toppers: Normo en Coup de Chocolat, gelagerd op Ierse whiskeyvaten?
Corona uit de wereld helpen kan ze niet, maar ze helpt wel om coronawinter 2 gemakkelijker door te komen.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours an intense black, with a robust, big to hige mocha head, fading fairly fast. Scent is raw, rough coffee. Don't really get the chocolate yet, barrel is providing some rough old wood, but not much whiskey. Taste is medium to medium high intensity. Very high (too high) carbonation. Very yeasty, some yeaststress it seems. Milder coffee than expected. All the 'extra's' are quite hidden, to be honest. Medium bitterness. Not as creamy as I'd prefer, probably due to to low PH water in the recipe? the beer isn't sour, but higher PH would provide more creamyness. The beer on it's own is quite enjoyable, still. Just not what I had hoped for.

Tried on 04 Apr 2022 at 23:10


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Small tan head over virtually black beer. Cigarette ash, coffee, bit phenolic, dry-resiny. Ureum whiff warming up. Mineral impression, cacao, rubbery. Very strange nose, making me think of rubber clothing or even more precisely air matrasses. Roast in a very dry way, straw, retronasal again ashes. Good carbonation, quite slick, viscous and quite well-bodied. Quite OK, certainly way better than the 2020 version. Thanks to Stef!

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jan 2022 at 11:10