Black Damnation III - Black Mes
De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.93
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Black Damnation III was made with Black Albert that aged for 3 months on Paul Melia’s (Mes) favorite Whisky, the "Caol Ila’s Distillers Version 1995".
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter flavor. Long heavy bitter finish. C reamy palate.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Creamy tan head on a still black body. Liquorice, malt, demerara & herbal tastes with a tangy
hopped finish
gave a cheers!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Complex aroma of roasted malts, dark fruits, coffee, oak, peat, dark chocolate, whiskey. Flavour is roasty, whiskey, peaty, dark fruit sweetness with a hint of tartness which pushed this brew over the edge for me. Alcohol is remarkably well hidden. Delicious.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Au programme de ce Black Mes, 13 %, 72 d'IBU et un Imperial Stout vieilli 2 ans en fut de whisky. Cette Black Damnation fait honneur à la lignée avec une bière très équilibrée, un vieillissement réussi et un cocktail très agréable. Seule petite surprise, la texture très fine qui n'empêche en rien l'intensité mais qui fait perdre un peu en gourmandise. Le visuel est sur une robe noire sans mousse. Le nez est très joli sur le café, le chocolat, la tourbe, le fumé, le chêne et le whisky. En bouche, ce Black Mess est puissant avec du caractère sans être agressif. L'alliance joue parfaitement, le whisky n'est pas trop présent par rapport à la base et l'alcool impeccable. Tout pour passer un excellent moment.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
30 July 2023. Bottle from Beers@Moviefun. Vintage 2018. Bottled: 31/3/2021.
Hazy black, small, frothy beige head. Aroma of cigar tobacco, black olive, prune, raisin, old fondant, soy, fried mushroom, whisky, vague iodine. Taste has sweetish prune & raisin, sourish blackberry wrapped in a malt body of fondant & toast; paired with umami soy & black olive, bit medicinal. Earthy & (black-)peppery hoppy finish, lingering bitter tobacco, espresso & toast; the warming whisky alcohol is more 'purely' medicinal than actually peated. Medium to full body, oily texture, average carbonation. Dry, dark and earthy; this is a more restrained Black Damnation example, less pronounced in the chosen barrel too.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
33cl bottle (vintage 2018, bottled: 14/01/2021) from Etre Gourmet web shop. F: thin, tanned, quick gone. C: dark, opaque. A: rich malty, chocolate, woody, whisky touch, coffee, cocoa, peat, dried fruits, toffee. T: full malty base, chocolate, coffee, peat, caramel, dried fruit, plums, nice balanced bitterness, soft carbonation, wau beer, fully enjoyed.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
330ml bottle. Jet black colour with minimally late awakening, small, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, dark beige to tan head. Roasty, chocolately, dark malty, slightly caramel malty, slightly yeasty fruity aroma, notes of liquorice, dark chocolate, dark caramel, blueberry, whiffs of salmiac, underlying weak hints of cherry, plum; hints of BA come in late and add a touch of Bourbon, peat. Taste is sweet-ish, caramel malty, chocolately and roasty, dark malty, yeasty fruity, slightly alcoholic, notes of dried fruit, alcohol soaked dried fruit, dark berries, plum, cherry, dark chocolate, dark caramel, some toffee; cautious BA overtones with a minimally peaty touch. Creamy to viscous texture, smooth, soft and silky palate, fine, soft carbonation. Rich and complex, evolving, very nice, alcohol supported fruity flavours; surprisingly (but only seemingly) light - very good!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
A 33 cl bottle, 2018 vintage according to the label. And it also unequivocally calls itself Black Mess. Just to pass along. Thanks to one of my European sellers, otherwise I'd never see a bottle like this. Lift the cap and tilt inside of a domestic brewery globe glass. Black as advertised with a tawny brown skim of foam that is lost fairly quickly. The nose is licorice, chocolate and dark fruit. The drink is all right but not top level. Overwhelmed by the ash, some booziness, caramel, ripe prunes, chocolate malt and wood. I like others from the brewery more.