Bottle 330ml @ Beer Merchants Tap, 🇬🇧 99 Wallis Rd, E9 5LN Hackney Wick, Greater London, England.

[ As 't Hofbrouwerijke Barfight ].
ABV: 10.5%. Clear dark black brown colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, licorice, light wood, moderate yeasty, belgian yeast. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, roasted, chocolate, licorice, caramel - belgian yeast - sweet yeast, light alcohol. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming. [20180727]
7-4-7-3-15

8 3 8 3 16Draft at Festivale der Bierkulturen, Cologne. Black with a beige head. Aroma of roast, dark chocolate, coffee and caramel. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Trockener, süffig würziger Beginn. Spritzig, mild alkoholisch, vollmundig, okay. 10/8/8/9//8

16-06-18 // tap, taster at Festival der Bierkulturen Köln 2018. Sehr klassisch. Schöne Röstmalzbittere.

Sampled LIBF18. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours clear, nearly black. No real head. Smell is bit roasty, ashy and tar. Taste is sharp, roasty, pure cocoa. Way too much roasted malt, balance is totally lost here. Bit bitter, rather high carbo. Typically Belgian style stout...

Thank you for sharing tderoeck & Filip. 330 ml. bottle sampled @ LIBF 2017. Black, small mocha head. Nose is weird roasted plastic, sweet sugar, BE. Taste is plastic, anis, roast, cardamom, flat coffee, almost chilli, near peated. Body is plastic. Too plastic, BE, some liquorice, imperfect for sure.

Belgian ‘impy’ by Jef Goetelen, sampled at LIBF. Thanks Johan for sharing. Thin, opening, pale yellowish beige, lightly lacing head over a very dark blackish bronze, hazy beer. Aroma of blackberries, old moist chocolate bars, dry tree leaves, ashes, elderberries, sour cherries, brown bread, coffee grounds, earth, dried banana. Sweetish onset, dried banana and fig with an elderberry-tinged sourish edge, sourishness of roasted grains as well, slightly oily mouthfeel. Walnutty and caramelly malt body with a bitterish toasted edge, finishing quite herbal, phenolic and very earthy, a bit astringent and ashy as well, with gin-like warming alcohol in the end. Roasted grain sourishness and relatively harsh bitterness runs through the whole. Not everybody liked this one and it certainly is very recognisably Belgian, like most Belgian attempts at imperial stout – but within that specific segment, this isn’t the worst I had so far.

Imported from my RateBeer account as 't Hofbrouwerijke Barfight (by 't Hofbrouwerijke):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5

15/IV/18 - sample @ Leuven Innovation Beer Festival (Leuven) - BB: n/a (2018-443) Thanks to 77ships and Rubin77 for sharing today's beers!

Clear dark brown to black beer, creamy beige head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: pretty roasted, some coffee notes, malty. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sweet, some caramel, banana, soft roast, bitter, hoppy, malty, some chocolate. Aftertaste: little bitter, roasted, dry finish, bit spicy, cocoa powder, liquorish.