Bottle @ Danish Ratebeer Summer Gathering. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, chocolate, caramel, coffee, licorice and hops. Full bodied. Nice bitter finish.

Bottle shared with Craftmember. The Glenmorangie edition of Black Albert, with a thin, pale beige head, immediately opening in the middle but leaving some ’dots’ of lacing on the glass yet vanishing altogether in the end, over a black beer with a thin, hazy mahogany edge visible for about one millimeter off the edge. Aroma of black unsugared chocolate, molasses, burnt toast, quite a lot of Speyside whisky rather than actual Glenmorangie, cold black coffee, wet leather, dried figs, vanilla beans (doubtlessly from the oak), black peppercorns, treacle, brown rum, dates, wet wood but not very outspoken, damp autumn leaves. Some candied fig-like sweetness in the onset, lingering sugary sweetness as in regular Black Albert but balanced by an underlying tone of roasted grain sourishness, low in the umami department, soft carbonation, thick and oily mouthfeel but not as viscous as one would expect from a 13% stout. Fatty nutty malt body, quickly acquiring toasty bittersweet properties and developing into full-fledged black coffee roasted bitterness, nut shells and bitter black chocolate lingering, spicy hop bitter punch in the end overwhelmed by a boozy, very ’brightly’ whisky-like flavour, Glenmorangie more or less recognisable even, but the treacle- and molasses-like features of Black Albert remaining dominant. A bit crude but deep enough to be interesting (though not worth its price), alcoholic and coffee-ish as expected. Nice and complex enough, with a tad less of that obtrusive alcohol burn I experienced in other versions of this new Black Damnation series. So far one of the best in this new BD series in my humble opinion - but, again, at those prices I am not very inclined to buy them all, particularly in view of the relatively minor differences, so there might be better versions out there.

No head, virtually black beer with brown-orange rim. Liquorice, chocolate (black & milk), wood, bit of pepper. Wood, black cardamom, liquorice, black chocolate. Spiked with alcohol and even fusels. Very full-bodied, alcoholheat, chewy & viscous. One of the best Struise since long. Great! 7/4/9/4/15

Thank you kraddel & tderoeck! Sampled draft @ VCBF 2017. Black, dark mocha only small rim on the sides, looks like the others of the currently released series. Nose is roasted roots, molasses syrup, near roasted black chocolate, bitter roots, sweet basic molasses Black Albert, some roasted oak,.... Mellow flat pancake syrup, molasses, dark fruits, bit rounder, low fruits, differs little from others of this series which are non-peated, boozy rounder,... Feels closer to modern Black Albert than the old series, I assume that age took away the complexities. Nice but not the heights of yore. This one my second favorite of the new ones after Major Tom which makes sense that one difference in that here they used barrels of the 10 year iteration of the whisky & there the 20 year old barrels.