Billiard
Brouwerij Frontaal in Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.34
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An Imperial coffee oatmeal stout with Bourbon Royale coffee beans
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
deep dark brown colour, moderate sized dense beige head; aroma of coffee, burnt wood, herbal liqueur notes and some smokey notes; taste of coffee, dark chocolate, herbal liqueur notes and some smoked notes; very good imperial stout
Tried
on 04 Sep 2016
at 11:28
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at home. Aroma is strong roasted malt, dark bread, lots of coffee, even more liquorice, charcoal, touch of dark chocolate and hops in the finish. Flavour is sweet with a moderate roasty hoppy bitterness and a long bittersweet aftertaste. Body is medium, a bit thin for the style. Good beer but hardly one of my favourite Imperial Stouts, it’s way too thin and too heavy on the liqourice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2016
at 14:38
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from het Biermoment, batch 2015009 dated 21/10/15, large sample. Dark oily color, short frothy brown fluorescent head. Aroma of roast, lots of dark bread and loads of fresh spicy coffee, touch of licorice. Quite sweet in taste to begin with, after which some velvety roast and coffee bitterness comes through, finishing with a bit salty licorice. Not perfectly balanced yet, but with a bit of work to get an even more creamy body, this could seriously get to be one of the better dutch RIS. Great job, promising!
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Feb 2016
at 15:35
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle @ home. Opaque pitch black color, medium sized dark brown head. Aroma is malts, light roast, firm coffee. Taste malts, firm coffee again, some hops come through, a slight sweet hint, a slight distant hint of liquorice. Mainly dark malts and coffee though. Initially quite sweet, soft bitter finish. Thick viscous oily texture, full body, soft carbonation. Very nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2016
at 15:10
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 9
Oersoep festival. Zomerkwartier, Nijmegen. Koffie met veel bittere hop, beetje wranger dan je zou willen. Backlog from 2015/08/29.
Tried
on 21 Dec 2015
at 13:35
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
On tap @ Brewda 2015, small sample. Dark red-brown color. Aroma’s: ROAST, lots of it, ground coffee. Retronasal it’s the same with additional light sweetness. Flavor is moderate sweet, heavy roast, light sour. Medium bodied. Finishes with more roast, moderate bitter. Maybe too much coffee, but I liked it anyway.
Re-rate almost 7 years later (although it was canned in Jan 2021). Pours pitch black with a big dark brown head, a small layer retention. Arom's: heavily roasted, coffee, berries. Retronasal follows this mostly, with some bitterness from the roast. Flavour is moderate roasted bitter with a light sweet note and a touch of coffee/berry sourness. Smooth mouthfeel. Roasted, almost burned finish, coffee, bitter. Still quite rought, but I like it.
Re-rate almost 7 years later (although it was canned in Jan 2021). Pours pitch black with a big dark brown head, a small layer retention. Arom's: heavily roasted, coffee, berries. Retronasal follows this mostly, with some bitterness from the roast. Flavour is moderate roasted bitter with a light sweet note and a touch of coffee/berry sourness. Smooth mouthfeel. Roasted, almost burned finish, coffee, bitter. Still quite rought, but I like it.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Sep 2015
at 06:07
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Lots of roasted coffee in the aroma. Intense flavour with lots of bitter roasted malts.
Tried
on 05 Sep 2015
at 12:03
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draft sample @ Oersoep Bierfest 2015, Nijmegen @ Stoom. Brune foncée, presque noire, col moka restant léger. Arôme offre un bouquet malté tirant sur le chocolaté, note grillée en rétro nasal avec un accompagnement épicé. Palais au profil plaisant, grillé, chocolaté assez épais, le tout garde une impression de barrique. Palais tire cependant sur un léger côté café presque moka. L’amertume est minimaliste apportant juste une petite touche houblonné. Le chocolat et le côté grillé restent le point fort de ce stout.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Sep 2015
at 11:29
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled draft from Stoom during Oersoep Craft Beer Festival 2015. Black, big mocha head. Nose is huge on roast, mocha, chocolate, big bark, heavy roast. Taste is big chocolate, roasted mocha, licorice, quite burned, charred coffee, charcoal finish,… Charcoal & licorice body. Okay but rather too heavy on the roast, far too much plus it has a bit too much licorice for me but still not too bad.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Aug 2015
at 15:20