Brasserie Atrium Billie

Billie

 

Brasserie Atrium in Marche-en-Famenne, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪

  Stout - White / Blond Special Out of Production
Score
6.93
ABV: 12.6% IBU: - Ticks: 6
White Chocolate Imperial White Stout with Ethiopian Coffee & Madagascar Vanilla
 

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6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

A golden beer, a head is quite big blond.Aroma has coffee, some green herbs, hint of vanilla. Taste has coffee, vanilla, some fruitness. Medium bodied. Quite weird, the balance could be better.

Tried on 28 Apr 2024 at 12:57


6.6
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Geers. Hazy orange, thinning, off-white head. Aroma of vanilla, toasted almond, mead, toasted white bread, coffee nib, pear, orange peel, fruit cake (apricot), icing sugar, vague chlorine. Taste has very sweet banana, candied plum & pear in a white-chocolatey, white-bready, white-sugary and almondy malt body, adding lots of extra sweetness but also a chemical effect. Very vague floral hops in the finish, lingering toasted almond, touch of coffee, candied fruit and warming liqueur-like, almost mead-like alcohol. Medium to full body, syrupy texture, average carbonation. Very sweet, weird, but also a bit messy overall.

Tried on 18 Jun 2023 at 10:37


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

Bouteille 33cl, BB 11/2032, lot# L049/22.
Verticale avec la version Baco – je suppose que c’est la même base. Une des multiples créations lors du Billie’s beerfest.
Couleur pâle dorée, col fin crémeux blanc-cassé voire jaunâtre.
Arôme sur un bouquet chocolaté blanc avec un léger rétro-nasal torréfié, rétro marqué sur les céréales et grains concassés, le tout rehaussé par une agréable douceur exotique de la vanille. Nez aussi un peu lactose, yogurt sur un côté guimauve sucrée/ barbe-à-papa/cuberdon et ensuite un côté plus orange confite enrobée de chocolat/vanille.
Palais est sur une base assez douce oscillant vers le pastry – note de vanille mais avec un retour boozy assez présent et une finalité de bouche au niveau levure qui me semble très belge. Effet un peu épais chocolat blanc Galak, café léger en retrait mais repris par une amertume assez marquée. Le volet des 12,6% est de trop pour moi.
Je ne vois pas vraiment le côté ‘white stout’ ni l’intérêt de cette catégorie, alors que tous les éléments sont là pour en faire une bière forte belge.

Tried from Bottle from Malt Attacks on 30 May 2023 at 09:54


7

Tried from Bottle from Malt Attacks on 11 Dec 2022 at 07:33


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

One of the many (three dozen or so) Billie-themed beers, probably all one-offs, presented at this years’ BCBF. Thanks Frederik and his band for sharing this one on the train from Antwerp to Ghent! Egg-white, open, moussy head, hazy peach blonde robe with pale orangey tinge - 'white' stout indeed... Sweet and ‘desserty’ aroma of candy apple, vanilla indeed, white chocolate, Betterfood, ripe pineapple, pear, honey, almond to even marzipan, candied orange, touch coffee powder indeed – but remaining subtle. Sweet onset, candyfloss almost, candied orange, apricot jam and ripe pear, medium carb; almond- and white-chocolate-like flavours heavily resting on a biscuity and cereally, rounded malt core, fruity ‘candied’ sweetness continuing into a warming finish with low hop bitterness and liqueurish alcohol, as well as a spicy coffee accent. In itself a decent and well-constructed dessert beer, sure, but stop calling blonde beers ‘stouts’ please – that joke is not funny anymore…

Tried on 26 Nov 2022 at 01:52


7

Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2022, Saturday Session. A black beer with a beige head. Aroma and Taste of dark caramelized malt, red fruits, berries, raisins.

Tried on 15 Nov 2022 at 19:44