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

Tap at the Dutch bar bermondsey. A opaque mahogany brown coloured pour with a a laying loose khaki head. Aroma is semi sweet brown sugars, broen bread, malt loaf, raisin loaf. Flavour is composed of semi sweet nutty malts, twig let's, brown sugars, brown bread, malty, raisin no chilli, liquorice. Palate is semi sweet, rounded, oily, moderate carbonation. Light spicy.

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

Bottled 330ml. -from Beerlovers Wien, shared with Hrabren. Black coloured, small brownish head, chocolate and light coffee in the nose. Roasted malt, chocolate, light coffee and discreet chili with touch of smoke in the finish.

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8.5

330ml bottle. Pours an opaque black with a decent dark brown head. Aroma is mild with dark malts perhaps a hint of coffee. Beer is medium bodied and you get the dark to almost burnt malts followed by the heat of the chili which lingers really well. The beer is moderately sweet with good depth of malt & coffee flavours plus a near perfect amount of chili heat; enough to notice for sure but it doesn't overpower the flavour.
Really very good.

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

0.33 l bottle from BeerLovers, Vienna, shared with Ogi. Dark brown, small tan head. Aroma is chocolate, coffee, lightly fruity. Hints of chilli in the back. Chocolate, toasty and toasty flavour. Medium body, soft carbonation and texture. Finishes sweet and chocolaty.

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

Huge tan head over almost black beer, retreating very lacey. Melanoidins, nutty, bit of dark malts, and in the very end just a whiff of capsaicine. Taste is even a bit smoky, tobacco, whiffs of chocolate, dark bread, breadcrust and capsicum. The heat only arrives very late and keeps restrained. Well bodied, ditto carbonation, slick to almost oily, chewy. I will never be a fan of chilli flavoured beer, but this one is so balanced that I can enjoy it.

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

Bottle from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is nicely roasty with coffee, dark chocolate, chili peppers, roasted malt. Flavour is pretty bitter with a light sweetness and a little chili in the finish. Medium body. Fairly dry, bitter and roasty. Good.

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