30 August 2024. At Hal 16 (Dok Brewing). Cheers to the Teamleader crew!

A: hazy black, small, foamy, tan head.
A: maple syrup, milk chocolate, brownie, mocha, spices.
T: sweetish chocolate & maple syrup, bitter mocha, clove.
F: herbal hops, bitter burnt waffle & toast.
P: light to medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation.
Somewhat flat in taste for a Pastry.

Pastry stout by Two Chefs in Amsterdam intended to evoke a Dutch 'stroopwafel', flavoured with caramel, vanilla, cinnamon and cocoa aromas; can from an Albert Heijn supermarket. Initially thickly moussey, cream-beige, regularly edged, dense yet opening and eventually dissolving head over a very dark chocolate brown robe with hazy burgundy edges - but generally as good as black. Aroma of Liège or indeed Dutch waffles with treacle, caramel sauce, pecan, cocoa, latté macchiato, toast, toffee, black peppercorns, dry cinnamon, vague vanilla (already fading a bit I guess), 'Haagse hopjes', nutmeg, bayleaf. Sweet 'pastry' onset but not overdone, dried prune, pecan and pear syrup, not very sugary actually but aromatised from the start, with a sweet 'dark' scent evoking the 'stroopwafels' all the way to the finish; medium carb, even a tad stingy, through a smooth oily body of toffee-, cocoa-, dark chocolate- and toast-like malts, full for its ABV and moving from bittersweet to full-on roasted bitter and chicory-like, even charred toast-like for a brief moment. Leafy hops support this bitterness, while at the same time a sweet aroma of primarily cocoa, cinnamon and caramel oversees it all, indeed reminiscent of some or other Belgo-Dutch waffle type. Pleasant, very Dutch interpretation of a pastry stout, with most of its qualities derived from the fact that it refrains from extreme sugariness and instead displays an oldskool roastiness - putting it somewhere in between dry stout and pastry stout. Very tasty - especially for something casually grabbed from a supermarket shelf.

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Blik 33cl thuis. Caramel, wat roasted malts, stroop, wat toffee, chocoladetonen, vanille, nutella, hazelnoot, bittertonen. (22-12-2024).

23/XI/24 - 33cl can from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: 12/VI/25, canned: 12/VI/24 (2024-1220)

Clear brown beer, big fizzy beige head, crackling down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: a bit roasted, caramel, butterscotch, toffee, malty, grains, no cinnamon? WTF? Stroopwafel is more than just caramel... MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots of caramel, a hint of chocolate, fudge, butterscotch, a little bitter but mainly pretty sweet. Aftertaste: soft roast, some chocolate, a bit sweet, malty, more caramel, bitter touch, meh. More a caramel / butterscotch stout than a stroopwafel stout if you ask me…

0.33 l can from 'Bierloods22', canned in October 2024. Very dark ruby to black with a thin, frothy, slowly diminishing, beige head. Sweetish-malty, gently roasty aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, roasted hazelnut and some vanilla. Quite sweet, malty, moderately bitter fairly roasty taste of dark chocolate, coffee, licorice, caramel, cinnamon, roasted hazelnut and vanilla, followed by a medium, fairly roasty-bitter finish. Medium body, gently effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Very nice for such relatively low abv, not as rich as at imperial level maybe but quite complex and saturating nevertheless.

Not as bad as you’d think, or as stroopfwaffely. Kinda just an ordinary sweet stout. But quite sweet. Ah ams

GO Packers! Deep Black color and a nice tan head. Stroopwafel nose: caramel, shortbread, vanilla. Taste is sweet malty, caramel, coffee and a decent bitterness.