Paint It Black
Brouwerij Hoppug in Meerhout, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Het NestStout - Milk / Sweet Regular
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Score
6.93
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CloakedDagger (37038) reviewed Paint It Black from Brouwerij Hoppug 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 33 cl. Pours an opaque black with a reamy, light brown head. Roast and vanilla in the nose. Rich body, pleanty of roastiness, some vanilla and licorice with only a faint hint of lactose. Soft carbonation. Slight malt bitter finish. Not bad. 310722
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Paint It Black from Brouwerij Hoppug 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Thick russet head over brown-black beer, pouring viscously. Coffee, roast, rust, sweet. Very roasty, with a creamy feel (as if oats were very freely added, but of cours also the lactose aiding). Bit spicy as horseradish. Very thick, viscous body, chewy. Faint alcoholheat. Lactose obvious in the MF. Aftertaste has a bitterish, powdery feel. Quite nice stout. Thanks to Stef!
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Paint It Black from Brouwerij Hoppug 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
“Imperial milk stout” by this ‘Kempian’ brewer, shared with my girlfriend Goedele. Thick and foamy, creamy, yellowish beige, membrane-lacing, relatively stable head, black robe with hazy chestnut edges of less than a millimeter off the edge. Aroma of cold black coffee, milk powder, praliné filling, Nutroma coffee cream, soggy black toast, wet pipe tobacco, espresso powder, ‘Koetjesreep’, old chewing gum, white pepper, clove, ‘jenever’, tea, something ashy. Sweetish onset, quite ‘clean’ but still with red apple- and pear-like estery accents, softish carbonation, vague sourish undertone (elderberry); very full, rounded body, rather creamy due to the added lactose, adding silkiness and an actual milk powder flavour, quite pronounced and sweet, but with ‘milk-sourish’ edges. This effect lies heavily over a deeper structure of pecan nut paste-, sugarfree chocolate- and brownies dough-like malts, ending with quite firm, mouth-filling, coffee-like roastiness with vague ashy accents to it, providing balance against the lactose sweetness; so does a late but firm, earthy, spicy hop bitter note. Still, in the end the lactose flavour lingers and I know that ‘milk stout’ was the intention here, but somehow I think this stout as a whole would have worked much better without it – as a true imperial stout ‘tout court’. Maybe such a version exists, in which case I would love to try it…