6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Brown bottle, 33 cl, 6.2%, from and with Jean-François Godbout (merci!), Hit and miss afternoon at Sébastien Bertrand, savoured on January 18, 2020; eye: dark brown, opaque, ring of brown head, slight lacing; nose: smoky malt, slight meatiness; mouth: smoky malt, slight meaty, finale in light meaty with presence of malt, medium body, average carbonation, lightly sweet, slick texture; in summary: fine

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Bouteille brune, 33 cl, 6,2 %, de et avec Jean-François Godbout (merci!), après-midi Hit and miss chez Sébastien Bertrand, savourée le 18 janvier 2020; œil : brun foncé, opaque, anneau de mousse brune, très légère dentelle; nez : malt fumé, très léger viandeux; bouche : malt fumé, très léger viandeux, finale en léger viandeux avec présence de malt, corps moyen, carbonatation moyenne, légèrement sucrée, texture coulante; en résumé : bien

5

A bit unblanced

7.5

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

0.33l bottle thanks to Lore. Black body with a beige head. Aroma of dark fruits, chocolate, coffee and smoke. Taste of smoked malts, chocolate, coffee, berries and floral hops. Light medium body with a lower than average carbonation. Tasty.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

33 cl bottle at Poncelet Cheese Bar, Madrid, paired with some really good cheese, like English Montgomery Cheddar, very old Dutch Gouda Fermier or Mas del Tano goat bleu. They know their stuff. OK, back to the ale: it pours very dark brown, almost pitch black, bright and intense. Rocky tan head lasts like forever, thick and foamy. Aroma is smoke, chimney and cinder. Bacon, smoked ribs... you know. Some cocoa and coffee as well. Mouth is soft, dense, quite high on the carb side. Not too sour, quite bitter, medium-lasting. Nice.

8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Dark brown colour, minimal creamy beige head; aroma of intensive smoked notes (smoked ham, mainly ), some dark chocolate and maybe dried plum or burnt plum jam; tastes like the result of an aberrated test of soaking a smoked ham into a strong black coffe for at least a week and then covering the result of it with hot dark chocolate - sounds weird but the result is really great

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Spanish smoked porter, tasted from tap at Craft & Draft. Thick and creamy, pale yellowish beige, lacing head over a very dark bronze beer, almost black, but with translucent, hazy copper-red tinge. Aroma of smoked bacon, unsugared chocolate, cured meat, burnt toast, dry tea, butterscotch, dried plums, blueberries, ashes, burnt wood. Dried fig and dito plums in the mouth, old raisins, only very lightly sweetish, more umami (dried beef), sourish roasted barley undertone, soft carbo, nutty, smooth, bit resiny maltiness, lots of black toasted bread, pleasantly dry, roasted coffee grounds-bitter and spicy hop bitter finish with the smokiness (smoked bacon again, some charcoal) rising up retronasally; very dry overall. Well-made, tasty and cleverly balanced epigone of Alaskan Smoked Porter.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Zwart met beperkte kaki kraag. Aroma van gerookte mout, rubber en leer. Smaken van rookmout, veel wat.. zeer veel leer, chocolade, geroosterd, gebrande mout, weirde overheersende leersmake , ik kan het niet echt vies noemen maar wel weird, matige body, lage co2 --- Beer merged from original tick of Holy Smoke on 23 May 2018 at 15:34 - Score: 6

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Discounted bottle @ home. Black colour with no head. Smells mostly fingerpaint and roasty. Tastes slightly fingerpaint, peat, roasty, liquorice, sweet. Medium body, soft carbo, slightly silky.

7.2

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draft. A black beer with a lazing dark brown head. The aroma has notes of smoke, roasted malt, and chocolate. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, smoke, and chocolate, leading to a bitter finish.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Bottle. Color: Almost black, light brown head. Taste: Very dark roasted malts, smoke and hints of dark chocolate. Medium bitter. Dry mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Unusual taste but I like this one for once in a while on a cold cosy winter evening.