Vitesse Noir
Hardknott in Millom, Cumbria, England 🏴
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.05
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It’s a triple imperial stout with lots of stuff in it. It’s full of beans, three different types in fact (coffee, vanilla and cocoa). It’s 11% and black. You wouldn’t neck it very fast, it will be seriously expensive for one thing. Also, you wouldn’t drink much of it because of the intense flavours. It is unlikely to cause major drunken behaviour mainly because it is aimed at beer geeks rather than tramps.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty vanilla coffee and chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate, vanilla and coffee flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate and vanilla finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2016
at 01:33
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottled. A black beer with a dark brown head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, coffee, and alcohol. The flavor is sweet with notes of alcohol, roasted malt, coffee, and whiskey, leaiding to a dry roasted finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2016
at 09:42
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle@yesprs - Black pour with tan head. Sweet malty aroma and taste, harsh roasted coffee, herbal hoppy action, some burnt notes, not getting on with this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2016
at 07:57
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33 cl bottle. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is coffee herbal. Toasted malty. Sweet, dark malty. Caramelish. Sweet and mild coffee jote. Caramelish and toasted finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2016
at 07:39
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 2
Overall 3
330ml bottle @ 12th Shrewsbury Bottle Share, courtesy of Simon! Pours dark with minimal head. Week-old coffee dregs aroma. Horrible dregs / vanilla on initial sip, syrupy, bitter, rich and generally rather unpleasant. Not for me I’m afraid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 May 2015
at 14:48
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
28th April 2015: 330ml bottle split at the Shrewsbury Bottle Exchange Group meeting. Dark and forbidding, dregs of the coffee machine came to mind when I sniffed and drank this. Yet I also found it sweet and interesting: let’s leave it at that.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Apr 2015
at 02:36
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl bottle. Pours black, thin brown head. Aroma is exploding with strong coffee notes, dark chocolate, ash, vanilla. Flavor lacks the intensity of the aroma, got mostly ash and soy sauce, burnt wood. Coffee and vanilla in the finish. Slightly disappointed, because the aroma was so good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2015
at 15:05
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle shared at chriso’s winter tasting 7/12/2014. Dark caramel brown coloured pour with a halo of off elite head. Aroma is spicy veg, nutty choc, pumpkin. Palate is sweet, nutty, moderate carbonation. Really full an d sticky. Flavour is nutty, coco, vanlla. Interesting. bit too sweet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Dec 2014
at 15:09
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ home shared by benzai. Black colour with a small to medium sized light brown head. Smells sweet, chocolate, bourbon, coffee. Tastes chocolate, roasty, lots of iron, some liquorice, hint of vanilla, wiebertjes. Medium to full, soft carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2014
at 15:16
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle @ weekly tasting shared with Dutchdrebus. Opaque pitch black color, medium sized dark brown head. Aroma is malts, dark and roasted malts, coffee, espresso, loads and loads of coffee and espresso, vanilla. Taste malts, again loads of coffee and espresso, quite some vanilla, sweetness as well as bitterness, slightly iron. Wow, loads and loads of flavors mixed together. Not completely balanced, but certainly not a mess. I think this is a wonderful beer, but I just happen to not like vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2014
at 15:15