4.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4

Black with lasting head. Aroma and flavour are totally dominated by Tonka. Tastes a bit buttery too

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap. Black color with beige head. Aroma is tonka, mild vanilla, black chocolate, nicely aromatic. Taste is tonka, vanilla, black chocolate, not too much sweetness from the lactose. Velvety mouthfeel with soft carbonation. Good one!

8

keg at #borefts2022.... dark black.. thin tan lacing... soft chocolate roast malts nose.. heavy roast chocolate.. big juicy chocolate.. soft coconut Tonka.. dark heavy chocolate roast

8

Sampled @ Borefts Bier Festival 2022. A black beer with a tan lacing. Aroma of mid sweet dark roasted malt, vanilla and bourbon. Taste of sweet strong dark caramelized malt, vanilla, sugar, tonka.

8

A big ass pastry stout done well, as you can trust Laugar to do. Sweet, heavy and boozy, with a nicely creamy body. Lots of lactose, and subtle use of tonka. Vanilla for smoothness. Very nice, but not particularly special.

7.6

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

Cremiger, weich malziger Beginn. Deutliche Aromen von Kokosnuss, Karamell, malzig und holzig. Langer Nachgeschmack. 10/11/11/12//11

7.6

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

Pastry version of Laugar's standard 'impy' called Black Tundra, enriched with lactose, vanilla and tonka bean. Thickly moussy, mocha-beige, audibly crackling, even-bubbled, regular, medium sized head, slowly dissipating over an ink black beer. Aroma of hot chocolate sauce made with brown rum, tonka bean indeed (marzipan, cinnamon), marmite, toffee, caramel candy, shoe polish, cheap gin, cappuccino, mocha ice cream, cashew nuts, background hints of methylated spirits, a very faint remnant of the vanilla, wet leather, beef broth and wet charcoal. Unexpectedly sweet onset, dark and 'burnt'-sugary with some clean fruitiness of sweetened dates and candied figs, spritzy carbonation but brief and fine-bubbled, light meaty umami touch, full body yet thinned by alcohol; the lactose continues the sweetness in the middle and adds its familiar creaminess, countering that thinning effect a bit. Rounded, oily nutty maltiness with a thick chocolatey and toffeeish coat, developing some roasted bitterness in the end but softened by the lactose sweetness, while tonka bean sweetness, almond- and cinnamon-like, fills the retronasal part. Sadly though, the vanilla has now devolved into a shadow of itself - or was never that big here in the first place (never had this beer young); I would not have minded it being more prominent in a beer like this. In the end, a cappuccino-like coffee bitterness pops up briefly, but it remains buried under chocolatey, marzipan- and toffee-like, indeed 'pastry' sweetness, though more in aroma than in actual taste; bitterness is established by a peppery dash of hops and heating, rum-like alcohol, which seems just a bit too prominent even for a stout at this ABV. In all, quite a solid pastry stout, ticking the boxes of the genre without descending too much into childish sweetness, though sweet this one certainly is; a bit less booziness and a bit more vanilla could have made this even better in my book, but I surely enjoyed sipping this one. Makes me curious for the basic Black Tundra too, I guess I should give Laugar more attention than I have in the past years, as familiar as the name obviously is, being one of Spain's craft beer leaders; surely a less sweet(ened) rendition of this Alpha version can only be better, for me personally at least.