Baby Jesus Barrel Aged (Cognac)
Brouwerij 't Verzet in Anzegem, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Porter - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.65
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This Imperial Coffee Porter has matured for 6 months in Cognac barrels.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330 ml bottle. Pours a dark brown with fizzy moderate head. Aromas of cola, oak, booze, raisins and bready malts. Flavors of oak, chocolate, cognac, raisins and toasty malts. Very nice
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2023
at 23:21
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Dark brown with thin head and fine carbonation. Aroma is woody and boozy with a touch of cherry liqueur. Flavour starts up with the cherry notes then dark malts and some coffee and dark chocolate. Complex but well balanced.
Tried
on 05 May 2023
at 19:26
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle on 712 to Edinburgh, thanks to Doddy, 24/02/23. Murky mahogany brown with a beige cap that settles to a swirl. Nose is chocolate, coffee grinds, dark malts, oak, dried fruit rinds. Taste comprises mellow roast, cognac nip, spice, oak, cocoa powder, coffee, fruit rinds. Medium plus bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced spike of alcohol. Decent BA affair.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Feb 2023
at 10:56
7/10
Tried
on 24 Feb 2023
at 10:55
8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Donkerbruin bier met weinig schuim dat ook nog eens heel snel wegzakt. Smaak is vrij zoet en warm met duidelijk cognac, wat rozijn en een beetje chocolade. Heeft een heel zachte smaak die lang blijft hangen. Heel geslaagd.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2023
at 14:49
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark brown colour, beige foam. Nose of chocolate, cocoa, some fruitiness, roasted malts, cognac finish.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2022
at 20:51
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
Verzet’s output has been entertaining enough for years now, but in my personal opinion, few of their brews – exceptions notwithstanding – equal the Baby Jesus project of old school strong porters – with this one being the latest addition to that specific range, aged in cognac barrels. Pale greyish beige, moussy, irregular head breaking and lacing in shreds over a dark chocolate brown beer with hazy ruby red glow. Strong and alluring aroma of indeed cognac but also Kirsch, melting black chocolate, blackberry coulis, old wet oak wood (vanilla!), rum-soaked cookies, caramel, tawny port, green pear. Sweet, estery onset with a slight sourish edge, fruity hints of ripe blackberry, green apple and fig, medium carbonated with full, rounded body; caramelly and pecan-nutty malt core with light toasty bitterish edge, even a touch of bitter chocolate, before tannic woodiness, herbal hops and some spicy notes set in, providing dryness which matches well with this unmistakable, sweetish, warming afterglow of cognac. Rich, complex, yeasty but delicious imperial porter, just like the previous Baby Jesus variants – with this one being among the very best so far. Great work.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2022
at 13:45
