Blood Moon Rising
Totem in Evergem, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Pontus BrewingStout - Imperial Special Out of Production
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7.44
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Martin Lindström (24380) ticked Blood Moon Rising from Totem 8 years ago
marius (4938) reviewed Blood Moon Rising from Totem 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sampled at Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2017 - day 2. Hazy pink pour with a white head. Notes of cocoa, herbal hops, light berries, coffee.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Blood Moon Rising from Totem 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled at Erwin's birthday party in Ghent, a new collab of Totem with Pontus apparently - and a fascinating one: a red coffee stout... The end of classic beer styles is upon us. Moussy, yellowish, frothy head over a burgundy-hued, hazy copper red beer, not looking like a stout at all, rather a quad or barleywine, but indeed with a deeper red hue than what would usually be the case for those styles. Aroma of a lot of fragrant coffee powder and espresso, overseeing more subtle hints of dried fruits, caramel, butterscotch, stewed pear, white pepper, sweet cookie dough, peanuts, amaretto. Sweetish fruity onset, apple and apricot notes, medium carbonated, full and fluffy mouthfeel, pleasantly bready and caramelly malt sweet core, but soon overwhelmed by the elegantly bittering roasted coffee effect, which becomes the main flavour retronasally; lingering sweetness though, enhanced by a warming afterglow of rum-like, but in all very well hidden alcohol, as well as a tea-ish hoppiness. This beer took me by surprise, I was "off guard" at the moment and not in note taking mode - and taking beer lovers by surprise is what Totem excels at... As for style: since the brewers collaborating on this one explicitly intended to break all style conventions, I should probably not go into that matter too deeply out of respect for brewer's intent. But beer style classifications are one of my main interests so I cannot resist: "pale" (as in: not black) stout experiments seem to pop up here and there throughout the craft beer world recently and who knows, maybe we are witnessing the birth of a new beer style here - black IPA has also been generally adopted as a new style years ago. Moreover, even from a historical perspective, the idea as such is defendable, in that the word "stout" basically means "strong", and in Victorian times the term "pale stout" - meaning nothing more than strong pale ales - was not so uncommon. As for this intriguing creation: I'd identify it as an idiosyncratic Belgian coffee ale and there is no way I'm accepting this as a stout in the beer style sense of the word, not even a novelty one - but whatever: it is a very tasty, gimmicky but technically well-crafted ale which I must absolutely revisit in more 'controlled' tasting circumstances.
Kermis (23416) reviewed Blood Moon Rising from Totem 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
8 4 8 3 16 Draft at Billie's Craft Beer Fest '17. Bright hazy pink red with a white head. Aroma of massive roast, coffee, white chocolate, caramel and malt. Flavour is light heavy sweet and moderate bitter. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation.
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Blood Moon Rising from Totem 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2017. A almost unclear dark golden beer with a small most good lasting beige head. Aroma of coffee, cookies, vanilla. Taste of sweet chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, wood. Nice.
77ships (14506) reviewed Blood Moon Rising from Totem 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
(Thank you!) Sampled draft @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2017. Dark red, bright red indeed under the proper lightning, blond pink highly unusual coloured head. This beer will fuck properly with any beer geeks mind it smells nothing like it looks, messes with your mind. Nose is all roast to the max, massive coffee roast bringing roasted malt,… Massive bitter roast taste, roasted coffee, charred bark, it doesn’t just mimic an RIS but it goes way outside of category, first beer in a long time that totally surprised me & was different from everything else, herbal roast, low yeast & red beet sweetness but no earthly red beet character, thick roasted, lingering roast & red beet sweetness. Truly outside of every category going to confusing, awesome, proper score is ?/5.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Blood Moon Rising from Totem 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Totem / Pontus / CraftBeerShirts Blood Moon Rising (by Totem):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 6/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 11/20, MyTotalScore: 3.1/5
3/XII/17 - on tap @ Billies Craft Beer Festival - BB: n/a (2017-2145) Thanks to the Belgian, Dutch and German ratebeerians for sharing today's beers!
Little hazy deep red beer, big creamy white to light pink head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of coffee, more coffee, that's pretty much all I get. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: all coffee, more coffee, just coffee. Aftertaste: hint of white chocolate and vanilla.