Kerel Pink Imperial
VBDCK Brewery in Tielrode, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
6.73
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yespr (55501) reviewed Kerel Pink Imperial from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33 cl bottle. Pours pitch boack with a small tan head. Aroma is raspberry. Mild sourish. Dense fruity. Sweet, fruity. Slight sulphorish, mild liqourice. Bitter and toasted malty. Dry and roasted dark malty finish.
77ships (14506) reviewed Kerel Pink Imperial from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Thanks to Alengrin! 330 ml. bottle sampled @ “Belgian Ticks Tasting Ghent”. Dark brown, creamy thick mocha coffee head. Not really black but okay. Nose is weird metallic, you get some muted stale raspberry the rest is all grainy chicory, cacao, coffee grounds,… Taste is thin burned cacao, chicory roast, lacking fruit, very BE attempt at an RIS all thin grainy cacao, roast, chicory coffee, herbal, bark,… Nothing really bad but far removed from what an RIS should be in my opinion & too thin chicory bitter ashes etc.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Kerel Pink Imperial from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as VBDCK Kerel Pink Imperial (by VBDCK Brewery):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
21/VII/17 - 33cl bottle @ Belgian Ticks Tasting (home) - BB: 16/XII/18, brewed: II/2017 (2017-1096) Thanks to Alengrin for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown beer (not black??), small creamy irregular beige head, unstable, dissipates quickly (probably due to the fruits). Aroma: sweet, lots of raspberry jam, sugary impression, caramel, more jam. Not getting much roasted aromas... MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sweet start, raspberry jam, sugary, caramel, slightly bitter. Aftertaste: more raspberry jam, soft roasted touch, sweet, slightly sourish, pretty sugary. More a fruit beer than a stout...
Kraddel (15844) reviewed Kerel Pink Imperial from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Pours unclear , very dark brown. Small ring of foam. Smell is rich, fruity, mild raspberry. Some chocolate. Taste is full, sharp tones. Mild , very mild bitterness. Dry, cocoa , fruity raspberry notes. Ok.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Kerel Pink Imperial from VBDCK Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
VDBCK’s interpretation of the prestigious imperial stout style, with added raspberries... Moussy, quite thick, pale yellowish beige, irregular head, stable on the edges and slowly thinning to a disparate beige ’veil’ in the middle, over a very dark chestnut brown beer with hazy mahogany edges, not the beautiful ink black I expect to get when I open something called ’imperial stout’, but anyway. Aroma is even less imperial stout: lots of gravy and beef stock at first, soaking wet milk chocolate, caramel, rose petals somewhere, coffee grounds, banana, ’koetjesreep’, damp soil, melting brown sugar, ripe blue plum, mace, brown soap, black radish - but raspberries, delicate and volatile as they are, remain all but ’virtual’ at least in aroma. They do show up in the mouth, though, as a pleasantly refreshing ’berry sourness’ piercing brightly through the banana, pear and plum sweet fruitiness of the yeast, their sweetness accentuated by residual dark sugariness; carbonation is on the spritzy side for anything stout-like, mouthfeel is full and fluffy but not oily or viscous, feeling much more like a quadrupel than a strong stout. The middle phase consist of caramelly, pleasantly nutty and eventually a bit (bitter) chocolatey malt body with an unnecessary layer of breadiness on top due to yeast, while the esters and the actual, soft but unmistakable raspberry tartness continue, towards a dryish finish with a welcoming touch of spicy, earthy hop bitterness, a lot of yeast breadiness as expected, the raspberry sourishness lingering and, most of all, this caramelly malt sweetness going down the throat and being highlighted by a well-placed warmth of rum-like alcohol, which shows up only at the very end where it belongs, without turning astringent in any way. As with their Grapefruit IPA, VBDCK clearly - and like many new Belgian microbreweries - has no clue as to what an imperial stout is supposed to be like; I don’t particularly like ’fruited’ stouts to begin with but I can imagine this concept being very interesting if the basic beer was a ’real’, oily, viscous, jet black and thoroughly roasted ’impy’. This, however, hardly qualifies as a stout at all: this is a quadrupel with raspberries. Once again I cannot help feeling a bit deceived, but as with their Grapefruit IPA I had before this one, this is a fairly decent beer in all, regardless of style issues - just a bit strong on the residual proteins, which are clearly the culprits of this heavily gravy-like aspect in the nose. For a local audience, though, this might work, if it gets cleaned up a bit, just do not sell it as an ’imperial stout’ please...