7.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Tap at Peders. Opaque colour and tiny brownish head. Sweet vanilla, bourbon aroma. Medium-bodied to full-bodied. Sweet it is ... vanilla, bourbon, chocolate, warming alcohol. Nice but too much sugar.

8.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

Svart med lyst brunt skum. Lukter svisker, sjokolade, tobbakk og svarte bær. Fyldig. Smaker lakris, mørke bær, kakao, melasse og noe kaffe. Lang.

8

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

Rated at Pien Shop. Sweet, intense with vanilla notes, some roastiness, figs, prunes and syrupy maltiness, hints of oak and woody bourbon. A bit unbalanced

8.1

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

0,15l on tap @ Pien. Pours thick opaque black with a medium brown head. Aroma is very sweet roasted malts with vanilla, bourbon. Flavor is very grainy roasted malts, alcohol, vanilla, oak, bourbon, coffee, cacao, hops. Very nice.

8.4

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Smell of oak, vanilla, mudcake. Black colour, tiny brown head. Aroma of oak, booze, mudcake, vanilla, some sweet malt somewhere. Oversweet. Soft carbon. Intense.

8

Thin body, sweet and boozy. Strong vanilla, some caramel, figs and other fruit. Smooth, complex, very nice.

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Blend of English style barleywine with imperial stout, as such aged on bourbon barrels and additionally flavoured with vanilla. At BCBF ’23 – after a long wait, because seemingly everybody there wanted a sample of this hyped brewery’s beers… Yellow-beige, moussy, open ring for a head on a very dark, blackish-chocolatey brown beer with copper red glow. Noble bouquet of caramel liqueur, hazelnut oil, bourbon, clear vanilla but feeling ‘natural’ and linked to the oak wood as well, maple syrup, yellow raisins, cinnamon, nutmeg, candied orange, cognac, Belgian chocolates, eggnog. Densely sweet onset, fig jam and yellow raisins, even hints of lychee and melon somehow, softly carbonated with very full, almost syrupy mouthfeel, in which layer upon layer of caramel, toffee, molten black chocolate and hazelnut build, filling the mouth completely with an opulent, desserty sweetness. A kind of ‘blonde’ sugariness and sweet vanilla accompany a growing oaky woodiness, shifting impressions towards tawny port, madera and caramel liqueur before bittersweet bourbon subtly enters, all flavours being tied together in a long, rich, soothing but consistently sweet finish. Very desserty in its sweetness and syrupiness, but given that this was more or less the intention, what you get in the glass is a truly wonderful beer, a liquid Belgian ‘praline’ of high class and decadent indulgence – I may, perhaps, not be able to finish a whole bottle of this, but its perfect composition in every detail made the one tasting glass I had at BCBF one of the most memorable ones for that particular edition. Very stimulating to obtain a few bottles from this brewery, rare and expensive as they may be here in Western Europe.

8

Sweet, intense with vanilla notes, some roastiness, figs, prunes and syrupy maltiness, hints of oak and woody bourbon. A bit unbalanced

7.5

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

2023 version Pours black, no head. Scent is juicy, sweet, roasty. Taste is full, roasty, boozy, grainy, dried fruits. Chocolate and vanilla. Very enjoyable, but a bit to the thin and boozy side.

8

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

Pours mostly black with no head. Aroma's: bourbon, very sweet, milk chocolate, vanilla. Retronasal it's sweet, bourbon, vanilla, chocolaye. Flavour is heavy sweet, vanilla, a little red fruit. Full bodied. Long finish. Very nice, but a full pour/bottle would be too much sweetness.