Black Damnation II - Mocha Bomb
De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Collab with: Brouwerij De MolenStout - Imperial Regular
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from HavnensVinOgTobak. Pours opaque brownish black with small light brown head. Aroma is intense roasted malt, prunes, raisins, brown sugar, vanilla, liquorice, and hints of dried yeast. Taste is medium to very sweet, light to medium bitter, light acidic, and light salty. Body is syrupy with soft carbonation. Finish is long and balanced sweet, bitter and salty with intense notes of malt, prunes, raisins, oak, vanilla, liquorice, Vegemite, and hints of cocoa.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Aroma of roasted malt, strong coffee, mocha, dark chocolate, wild yeast. Flavour is moderately sweet and a little tart, with a coffee bitter finish. Deceptively drinkable for a 13%. Thick and full body. Delicious Imperial Coffee Stout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
33 cl bottle poured in to a snifter. Marked as 2018 vintage. Near black with a reddish-amber tinge. A few tanned bubbles on top. Sweet aroma with coffee, vanilla, bourbon barrel, Rather alcohol dense, with dry wooden notes. Some sourness lurking behind, this beer seems to be at the end of its cellering potential. The taste is bitter roasted. Medium to full body, not as rich as one could expect from 13 % abv. Dry, wooden finish with dark malts and a subtle sour note. The best before date of February 2026 seems very optimistic.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle, 13% 2018 vintage. Black, small light tan head. Roasted malt, sweet malt and mild coffee aroma. Coffee and quite sweet dark malty aroma, boozy bitter. Underwhealming.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle split at Brewdog Bristol. 2016 vintage. Pours black with tan foam. Aroma: big roast, spicy, vanilla, chocolate, coffee, oak, vanilla, dark fruits. Taste: moderate sweet & bitter, roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, spicy wood, little sour note. Full body with low-ish carbonation, boozy. Decent old school stout.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
2/21 bottle. Black with a broken coat of tan head. Aroma of roast, mocha, Welsh cakes, spices, hints of sticky liquorice. Very smooth, low carbonation. Has presence but is not heavy. More coffee than chocolate, Welsh cakes, spiced bitterness. A little whisky lingers. Amusing how dominated by H&V this is.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Vintage 2018 33 cl bottle that came by way of a pleasant, if not happy, Belgian seller. My Great Heights snifter is ready and waiting, time to move forward. A brown-black liquid topped with a slender ring of silvery tan foam. The scent is dominated by chocolate with a bit of roast. But the drink, it is an explosion of various tastes. Dark chocolate, bourbon, dark bread, black raisins, sorghum and berries. The feel is thinner than I prefer but there you go. A good imperial stout from my best regarded brewer from anywhere.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Etre, aged for a few years (17 or 18 bottle). Black with beige head. Loads of espresso, some bitter chocolate, ashy. Some smokey green chili note makes it a bit green, but still not enough to make it distasteful. Good one which surprisingly aged quite nicely.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Zwart bier met weinig schuim. Smaak is vrij zoet met wat chocolade, koffie en bourbon. Valt me persoonlijk wat tegen.