Black Damnation XIV - Talisman
De Struise Brouwers in Oostvleteren, West Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.72
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
75cl bottle shared with Martin & Laura. Pours dark, beige head. Light peat whisky notes that thankfully don't overpower it. Cocoa malt, dark dried fruits, soft whisky influence.. nice gentle sipper overall that perhaps lacks a little depth for the strength.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 10 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle (2012). Almost black color, weak brown foam. Aroma: wine, caramel, port wine, chocolate, raisins, whisky, dark dried fruit, sweetness, mighty, esters, very good. Taste: sweet, port wine, dried fruits, prunes, black raisins, caramel, whisky, apple, powerful, cool, soft, very good, warm, great stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Black Christmas 2018, bottled 02/04/2017
Black colour. A bit too skewed towards soy sauce, foot, cheese. But also rich chocolatey Imperial Stout, dusty, some tobacco and smoke.
Weird but interesting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
750mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out English bready malt, oak barrels, and some alcohol. Flavour is very similar, with lots of English bready malt, oak, and light toffee. Really like the barrels here - not too overburdening. Excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
750 ml bottle. Pours black with light head. Aromas of treacle, light scotch, dark chocolate and slick roasted malts. Flavors of molasses, lightly smoky scotch, coconut, espresso, and oily roasted malts. Complex. Excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark molasses and chocolate. Jet black brown with a rich brown head. Sweet dark molasses and some boozy whisky notes. Heat even now.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
One of the second generation Black Damnations, aged in Talisker barrels. Brown-tinged beige head, very moussy but needing a bit of forcing to form, over a black beer with mahogany edges. Aroma of fondant chocolate bars, dry peat and indeed whisky yet seemingly a bit more subtle in comparison with other whisky barrel aged variants in this series, butterscotch, leather, warm toast, roasted hazelnuts, glue, nutmeg, liquorice, fried black olives, shoe polish. Sweetish dried fig- and blackcurrant-tinged onset with sourish roasted barley below, subtle accents of fried banana, porcini and cured meat, softish carb, very thick and oily mouthfeel. Toasted walnut-, rye bread toast- and fondant chocolate-like, thick maltiness, bittersweet with more expressive coffeeish roasted bitterness towards the finish, accentuated by spicy hop bitterness and a peppery, but not overly wry, obviously very whisky-like alcohol flavour and heat; woody tannins from the casks linger at the back, adding depth and complexity. Relatively ‘clean’ (as Talisker itself is) and a bit less boozy than most others in this series – and for that reason, among the best of these new BDs for me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Spritzig malziger, weich herber Beginn. Süßlich würzig, Noten von Schokolade, trockenes Karamell, langer Nachhall. Rund bitter, gut. 10/9/10/9//9