8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Small, rustcoloured rim over jet black beer, pouring viscously. Coffee, coffeedust, cacaopowder, black chocolate, dry cookies, plywood, whiskey. Warming up, the whiskey aromas get stronger. Sweet-roast, restrained whisky and ditto coffee/cacao; Light, playful lactic/stoutacidity. Balanced! Well-bodied, viscous-oily, light alcoholheat. RESTRAINT! That is the secret of this beer: not searching for extremes and record figures, making it good, despite the sweetness it does not become a caricature of itself, as so many pastry I.S. Txs to Stef!