Black Damnation XV - Drone
De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.69
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle 144/2000. A black beer, a head is very small and brown. Aroma has liquorice, dates and dried fruits, barrel and some salt liquorice. Taste has liquorice, some roatiness and quite dry barrel, some salt liquorice . Almost full bodied. Nicely balanced. Intensive.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
0.75L bottle - many thanks for sharing, kapusil! deep dark brown colour, minimal off-white lacing; aroma and taste of dark chocolate, coffee, peaty, some licorice and spicy alcoholic notes; great beer!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
0.75l bottle. Pitch black body with practically no head. Lots of chocolate both in the aroma and the taste with peated malts, cocoa, coffee, orange zest, nutmeg and some floral hops. I like that the barrel character only makes the beer more complex but doesn't overpower everything else. Thick bodied. Very nice.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottleshare XX in De Beugel. Arnhem. Pours a black colour and a brown head. Aroma's of drop, quite light peat, sweetness, molasses, roast, red fruit. Flavour is sweet, drop. Full bodied.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Bottle at tasting. Opaque black color, small brown head. Aroma and flavor is malts, dark malts, some booze, light liquorice maybe. Heavy but alright.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
75cl bottle from Struise Shop, Bruges. Bottled: 1/4/2017. Cloudy black, very thin beige head. Intense aroma of candied fig, dates, ripe blue plum, vanilla, dark fudge, pear, chocolate praliné, teriyaki, moist tobacco, sweet whisky. Taste has sweet plum, fig, date & even some pear supported by a very solid base of dark toffee & chocolate maltiness, with a sourish edge of coffee nib & brambleberry lending subtle complexity, whilst an undercurrent of umami soy is apparent too. Herbal, slightly peppery hoppy finish, lots of dried dark fruits, fudge and teriyaki lingering, never losing balance despite the alcoholic effect of sweet & woody whisky - strong but not too boozy. Medium to full body, slick texture, soft to flat carbonation. Utterly complex and although the age might have toned down the heftiness of the alcohol it's also thinner than expected. Still a great experience to open up one of these after a couple of years.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from Beers of Europe, shared with neighbours. What. A Beer. Blackest ever black, thin tan head. Aromas of whisky, wood, leather, smoke, tobacco, dark stone fruit, chocolate cake, raisins. Rich taste and texture. Memorable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle massive thanks to Chris. It pours opaque black with a small tan head. The aroma is sweet, sticky, oily, brown sugar, chocolate cake, rocky road, vague whisky, toffee, jammy action, victoria sponge cake, dried fruits and toffee. The taste is slick, oily, rich roasted malt, bitter - sweet, coffee character, really fruity, jammy, rocky road, coffee cake, very little alcohol warmth, toothy, dull toast, wood, touch of tannin, Dr Pepper and some spice with a slick finish. Full body, fine carbonation and oily mouth feel. Well rounded and drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Another one in this second generation Black Damnations by Struise, this one aged on Glendronach barrels (Scottish whisky from one of the oldest distilleries); 75 cl bottle, number 1307 of 2000 made apparently. Medium thick, pale brownish-ecru, mousy, open and dissipating head on a completely ink black beer. Aroma of lots of bitter chocolate, toffee, single malt whisky (yet no peat), Cuban cigars, toasted pinenuts, coffee grounds, pronounced vanilla-scenting wet oak wood, walnut oil, hints of soy sauce, salmiak, dried prunes, ground hazelnuts, honey-glazed spareribs, ‘blood’-like iron, dried fig, nutmeg, charcoal. Densely sweet onset, concentrated candied dates and figs with a thin beefy and soy sauce-like umami edge, softly carbonated (as with every new BD), sourish undertone, very full and oily, ‘heavy’ mouthfeel. Mouth-filling black-chocolatey and toffeeish maltiness, sweetish with a kind of blackberry jam-like note to it, turning more roasted bitter in the end, coffeeish and a tad ashy, yet remaining beautifully rounded; quite complex finish, layers of dark malt bittersweetness accompanied by light earthy and stronger woody tones, all drenched in a lot of outspoken, spicy and aromatic whisky flavour, hot and boozy as well – yet somewhat less so than in most other versions I had so far, and softened by ongoing sweetness with an umami accent, as in honey-flavoured beef ‘jus’. The less sharp and burning booziness is probably due to age – this is one of the very last ones in this series I had left to tackle so this is from a bottle of a couple of year old now – and this is clearly for the better, with a still very warming, but generally more mellow, soft result. The flavours have beautifully blended – maybe I should revisit the others in this series too at this age, if they weren’t so damn expensive…
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle, 750 ml, shared with kajser27, Max and others. Black with beige head. Chocolate, quite sweet, caramel, whiskey, low carbonation. Warming. Full bodied.