5.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Pours almost black with a small light brown head that doesn't last long. Aroma's of dried fruit, sweet/sugar, light soy sauce. Retronasal there's not much to it, a bit alcoholic and some salmiak and old wood. Flavour is moderate sweet, sweet fruit, drop, light bitter. Light medium bodied. Finishes slightly roasty bitter. Probably too old, no coffee or rum/barrel detectable.

7.5

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

Fles thuis geprobeerd met LiekevdV. Het is een pikzwart bier met een dun bruinig schuim. Het heeft een gebrande moutige geur met tonen van hout, koffie en vanille. De smaak is vol, chocolade achtig, bourbon en vanille.

6.8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle from Koht. Pours black. Aroma and flavor are sweet, bitter, roast, espresso, malt. Overall: ok.

6

Coffee, roast, chocolate, cocoa

8.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Coffee-vanilla stout made for and named after an Italian metal band in 2017, not sure if it is still continued. Creamy and dense, mocha-beige, irregularly but tightly lacing, very well-retaining head over almost opaque black beer with chestnut brown glow, but only visible under bright light. Pronounced aroma of lait russe, espresso, 'Haagse hopjes', vanilla beans but not too overpowering, old 'fondant' chocolate bars, pipe tobacco, haemoglobin, gin, coffee powder sprinkled over a chocolate cake, leather, black peppercorns, smoked prunes, whisky. Dried fig sweetishness in the onset, deeper sourish touch, light porcini-ish umami, medium carb, very full and thick, oily mouthfeel. Thick layers of toasted nut-, bitter chocolate- and burnt toast-like malts, soft at its edges with something very blood-iron-like to it, leading to a thick roasty finish embellished with (again relatively subtle) vanilla and aromatic as well as deeply bitter coffee, highlighted by a firm, slightly wry afterglow of whisky-like alcohol, with a peppery bitter hoppiness as well. Textbook imperial coffee stout, rooty and bitter but still soft and rounded as well; I recognize Nest's house style (see Dead Man's Hand) but in a subtle, underlying way, covered under a heap of coffee, booze and bitter chocolate. White Pony has silently but very significantly improved since they switched Gaverhopke for Het Nest; this is indeed very well done, like most others in this oak series. Loved it.