nathanvc (6963) reviewed Jackie Black from Inglorious Brew Stars 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
1 February 2020. At Brugs Bierfestival. Cheers to Anke, Kevin, Niels & Cynthia! Hazy dark brown-black, very thin, frothy, tan head. Aroma of wet toast, coffee beans, vanilla, earth, prune, macadamia, milk chocolate. Taste is a sweet nutty & bready profile with accents of chocolate & raisin; slightly earthy hoppy in the finish, more dried dark fruits, slowly losing its - already faint - roastedness here, managing a 'spike' of warming whisky alcohol. Medium body, oily texture, fizzy carbonation. Decent enough 'Dark Ale' but misses the point a bit.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
1st March 2020
Almost opaque dark brown beer, tidy tan head. Palate is surprisingly light, mildly dry and has decent fine carbonation. Tangy semi ripe fruits, cola. Touch of fruity whiskey. A little malt sweetness emerges on the thinnish tangy fruity finish. Flavoursome but just a tad too tangy. Batch 2 bottle aliased to batch 1.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottled 330ml. -from Pivny Raj Bratislava. Unclear golden coloured, medium sized white head, light citrusy herbal nose. Moderate malty, light citrusy, slightly acidic fruity and bitterish finish.
Gyllenbock (17517) reviewed Quad from Inglorious Brew Stars 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Systembolaget. Almost black with a small tan head. Aroma and taste of dark malt, licorice, chocolate, some spices and hints of dried fruit. Some warming alcohol in the finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sunday 2nd Feb 2020. Tasting glass from the brewery bar at the Brugge Beer Festival. Second beer of the day (after this brewers Blue label). Slight haze to the brown body, beige head. Malty molasses rule both the nose and taste with fairly sweet caramel fronting the aroma and flavour stakes. My sweet tooth liked it, but is a little one dimensional.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sunday 2nd Feb 2020. Tasting glass from the brewery bar at the Brugge Beer Festival. Golden pour, white head. Easy drinking beer, my first of the day, closely followed by this breweries red label. Anyway this had a light aroma of both piney hops and a little maltiness. The taste also a blend of hops and fruitiness on a bed of semi-sweet malty molasses. Good start to the day.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Jackie Black from Inglorious Brew Stars 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Newest Inglorious Brew Stars beer, a strong stout that is supposed to hop your brain. Shared with tderoeck at Nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging. Eggshell-white, mousy, open, irregular head on a very dark bronze-brown beer with misty ruddy-mahogany hue. Aroma of caramel candy, chewing gum, Ersatz chocolate, toasted walnuts, fresh thyme, candied figs, cloves, rainwater and some background DMS (cooked broccoli). Sweetish onset with a light sourish edge, hints of raisins, figs and blue plum, medium carbonated, very smooth, slick caramelly and hazelnutty maltiness with a very mild toasty bitter edge, ending with a dash of herbal hop bitterness, some retronasal DMS and warming, 'jenever'-like alcohol. Weirdly less stout-like than Inglorious Quad, which is intended as a quadrupel... Clearly these guys, though they do lovely things from time to time, still need to work on their mastery of non-Belgian beer styles. This one needs considerably more roasted bitterness and 'darkness' and less bubblegum (which is a yeast effect); for me this beer clearly does not match the quality level of Inglorious Quad but I have to admit that my rating here is based on a very small sample and I will certainly dive into this one again when I encounter a bottle somewhere in a shop.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Jackie Black from Inglorious Brew Stars 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
1/II/20 - 33cl bottle @ nieuwjaarsreceptie Gentse Biervereniging, BB: 20/XII/21 (2020-103) Thanks to everyone for sharing all today’s beers!
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy to no head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: bit oxidized, dried fruits, nice roast, alcohol, lots of chocolate. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: soft roast, acidic, bit surprising, thin and watery, malty, grains, hay, cow fodder. Aftertaste: bit spicy, malty, grains, some caramel, bitter touch, bit watery, soft roast, bit of vanilla.
Martin Lindström (24380) ticked Quad from Inglorious Brew Stars 6 years ago
hirigalzkar (4345) reviewed Quad from Inglorious Brew Stars 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Flasks. God öl men ingen typisk quad. Drar mer åt stout-hållet med rostade kaffetoner och bitter humle.