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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6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Bier Huis, Ossett. Clear, very dark, reddy brown. Halo of tan head. Sugary espresso. Taste is thick sweetness. Some coffee bitterness. Thick, sugary palate. Bitterness at the end, but too late to prevent tooth melt. A bit rough, to be honest.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2014
at 15:34
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle form brewery online shop. BBE Jan 2015. Jet black, nae head. Tiny bubbles form if you swirl it around. Looks like crude oil does in films. Packs a dirty coffee punch in the aroma, alongside faint vanilla and blackcurrant. Hidden booze. Full body, creamy to sticky texture, pretty flat, but no bad thing. Long fruity finish. Pretty, pretty goood.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2013
at 11:03
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle at Craig’s tasting. Huge coffee nose, sweet coffee, chocolate, roasty taste, light vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2013
at 10:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. It pours almost black, with a small, beige head resting patiently on top. The aroma has caramel and a little roasted hint, coffee, some chocolate, soy sauce and licorice. Sweet, faintly roasted flavor with coffee, licorice and soy sauce. Full-bodied, lightly warming and very soft on the palate. Roasted, warming finish, with that roasted malt kind of bitterness. A bit warming this one, but sure tasteful. 121130
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2013
at 12:51
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
330 ml bottle. A black body with a small brown head. Aroma of dark malt and roasted coffee. Flavour is very sweet malt, roast, molasses, liquorices, soya, warming alcohol and rather moderate in bitterness. Full body and long, sweet aftertaste. A big beer with lots of flavour, maybe a bit too much for the overall impression and too sweet for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2013
at 12:48
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Black colour with a beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, soy sauce, cocoa. Flavour is soy sauce, coffee, roasted malt, chocolate, cocoa. Full body. Nice beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2013
at 21:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
7th February 2012
Opaque dark brown beer, little tan head. Smooth palate. Rich malt with a lot of bubblegum ester. Vanilla and smooth coffee. Finishes tangy with some coffee bitterness in the aftertaste. Nice beer but the bubblegum esters get in the way a bit.
Opaque dark brown beer, little tan head. Smooth palate. Rich malt with a lot of bubblegum ester. Vanilla and smooth coffee. Finishes tangy with some coffee bitterness in the aftertaste. Nice beer but the bubblegum esters get in the way a bit.
Tried
on 09 Feb 2013
at 10:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330ml bottle
Pours dark brown, almost black with a tiny brown head. Aroma of stingy vegetables, roastiness, hints of cocoa and vanilla. Taste is strong with roasty vanilla notes, hints of stingy vegetables, cocoa and coffee. Finish is strong and malty with some roastiness and hints of vanilla. A bit unbalanced, feels like it would be slightly better from a fresh bottle.
Pours dark brown, almost black with a tiny brown head. Aroma of stingy vegetables, roastiness, hints of cocoa and vanilla. Taste is strong with roasty vanilla notes, hints of stingy vegetables, cocoa and coffee. Finish is strong and malty with some roastiness and hints of vanilla. A bit unbalanced, feels like it would be slightly better from a fresh bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2013
at 10:41
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
33 cl bottle @ olio, BBE 20.04.2015
Aroma has nettles, gooseberry bush and hay. Also some roasted notes, some tar, vegetables typical to a mocha beer and gooseberry bush – something you would not expect from an imperial stout, Flavour has mocha, some vegetables, roasted notes, gooseberry bush and some bnettles. Perhaps some hints of vanilla mentioned in the label. Could’ve been better as fresh, mocha is clearly present but the vanilla is rather hard to observe.
Aroma has nettles, gooseberry bush and hay. Also some roasted notes, some tar, vegetables typical to a mocha beer and gooseberry bush – something you would not expect from an imperial stout, Flavour has mocha, some vegetables, roasted notes, gooseberry bush and some bnettles. Perhaps some hints of vanilla mentioned in the label. Could’ve been better as fresh, mocha is clearly present but the vanilla is rather hard to observe.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2013
at 10:40
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle from Free Trade Inn Newcastle 271212 BBE 15/01/2012
This is the 1st batch
Jet black, dirty brown thick head, dissipates to thin brown layer with some lacing, deep and concentrated
Aroma - Huge roasted coffee, deep espresso, tar, some alcohol, charcoal, woody, burnt aroma, some bitter dark chocolate, mainly burnt roast coffee
Taste - Rich meaty roasted malts, complex, deep sweet dark malts, rich plain chocolate, rich espresso coffee which isn’t bitter, getting a hint of salt, touch of treacle, some soy, alcohol is noticeable here but is fine as the beer is so big, highly concentrated flavours, far less burnt notes than from the aroma. I’m not getting the vanilla - maybe it has been lost with the aging. The taste is so so concentrated and so so massive
Palate - Soft carb, full body, very creamy texture. Finish as main flavour, thick rich dark malts, chocolate, smooth, warming alcohol at the back end
Overall - Big big concentrated flavours here, definately a sipper in small doses, tastes much better than the aroma. Glad to have tried this - plus this is the first batch so has been in the bottle to mellow out.
This is the 1st batch
Jet black, dirty brown thick head, dissipates to thin brown layer with some lacing, deep and concentrated
Aroma - Huge roasted coffee, deep espresso, tar, some alcohol, charcoal, woody, burnt aroma, some bitter dark chocolate, mainly burnt roast coffee
Taste - Rich meaty roasted malts, complex, deep sweet dark malts, rich plain chocolate, rich espresso coffee which isn’t bitter, getting a hint of salt, touch of treacle, some soy, alcohol is noticeable here but is fine as the beer is so big, highly concentrated flavours, far less burnt notes than from the aroma. I’m not getting the vanilla - maybe it has been lost with the aging. The taste is so so concentrated and so so massive
Palate - Soft carb, full body, very creamy texture. Finish as main flavour, thick rich dark malts, chocolate, smooth, warming alcohol at the back end
Overall - Big big concentrated flavours here, definately a sipper in small doses, tastes much better than the aroma. Glad to have tried this - plus this is the first batch so has been in the bottle to mellow out.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2012
at 19:39