Alengrin (11675) reviewed Escort Deluxe 2015 from Bieren Cabardouche 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
At Billies Bierkafetaria in Antwerp, generously shared by a fellow craft beer enthusiast. Lacing, off-white, medium sized head over a hazy, deep reddish coppery amber beer. Aroma strongly reveals peated and lightly iodine-like whisky indeed, wet wood, strawberry, yoghurt, candied cherry, pine nuts, sherry. Fruity onset, marmelade hint, red berry sourishness, medium carbo, supple caramelly malt backbone, smooth and a tad oily; tart (and unexpected!) yoghurty and sherryish flavours build a bridge to a gently woody, drying finish of juicy maltiness paired with peppery accents (the hops, I suppose) and the expected retronasal peat, strong but not so strong that it would ruin this for me. An interesting find, original conceptually even for a new Belgian brewer, and technically well executed: I’m beginning to fall in love with these new Cabardouche ladies...
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Escort Deluxe 2015 from Bieren Cabardouche 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Bieren Cabardouche Escort Deluxe 2015 (by Bieren Cabardouche):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.6/5
5/XII/15 - 33cl bottle @ Billies Bier Kafétaria (Antwerpen) - BB: n/a (2015-1687) Thanks to John for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark orange beer, creamy yellowish head, pretty stable, bit adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: shoe shop, very leathery, some fresh paint, bit chemical, fruity touch, dusty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish start, lemon juice, fruity, soft peat, bit chemical. Aftertaste: bitter, citrus, peated, bit infected? Soapy bitterness, funky, quite some peat in the end, bit weird.
77ships (14509) reviewed Escort Deluxe 2015 from Bieren Cabardouche 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330 ml. bottle @ the launch event at Café Mombasa. Limited to 2675 bottles. The brewers handed out small tasters of Laphroaig so that we could better pick up on the effect of the barrel which was quite lovely. I have had some variations of Laphroaig before, I will never say no to those. Colour is hard to note given the lighting, some kind of shade of reddish amber, small off-white (- I presume -) head. Nose is strongly sour lemon, odd, sour red berries, faintly puckering oak, strongly lactic, touch vinegar & peat on top. Taste is oddly sour (should it be this way?), lots of lemon, almost touch puckering, clearly sour, strongly lactic, sour oak, berries, dash vinegar leading into a balanced peat, plastic peat & lightly medicinal finish,… Plastic lemon body. The sourness is big, odd & the peat balances well. It is a very strange beer, simple mix of weird puckering lemon & peat. Quirky at first but got hard to drink towards the end. You get a small bit of chili heat here. It got a bit too much towards the end, splitting a bottle might be advised here. Seems to be quite different from the way I remember the 2014 being, even taking the barrel into account, odd. I can see this one being polarizing. It was a bit excessive for me but interesting enough.
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Stout Mokke from Bieren Cabardouche 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Bieren Cabardouche Stout Mokke (by Bieren Cabardouche):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 15/20, MyTotalScore: 3.7/5
26/X/15 - 33cl bottle from ... somewhere... I forgot @ home - BB: 11/III/17 (2015-1517) Probably didn't buy this myself, so thanks to whomever got me this beer, either by trading or just picking it up for me somewhere!
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: mocha, some coffee, pretty roasted, caramel, banana, bit sweet, yeasty, some chocolate. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots of chocolate, fudge, spicy touch, slightly sourish, roasted. Aftertaste: caramel, hoppy, pretty bitter, coffee, mocha.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Stout Mokke from Bieren Cabardouche 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Huge beige head, jet-black beer. Big stable head hampering the nasal perception, but I get dark roasted malts, hops with a bit of ureum. Sweet, dry-roasted malts, but lots of underlying sweetness, even honey. Finish has a herbal touch. Well-bodied, slick to viscous. It’s OK, but it just doesn’t spark as some similar (foreign?) I.Stouts.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Blonde Stoot from Bieren Cabardouche 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Another Cabardouche beer, with thickly cobweb lacing, very pale greyish white, dense, thick head leaving a papery texture on the wall of the glass, and lightly hazy, pure golden colour with calm fizz, misty with deposit. Aroma in first instance reminds me of (subtle) American hops: citrussy and very floral. I get impressions of tangerine, lemon blossom, chamomille, a hint of spruce, acacia honey, yellow grapefruit peel, butter, green apple, unripe plum, fresh white bread, soapy starfruit, faint hints of white pepper, banana and freshly cut grass. Crisp, fairly clean onset, gooseberry, green apple and pineapple with just a subtle banana component, minerally, spritzy, very refreshing with a citrus peel edge; fairly strong carb, souring a bit. Satisfying pale malt sweetishness in the middle, a bit bready, lean and smooth, with a dash of yeasty spiciness (phenols) but nothing disturbing. Finishes in a subtle green olive-like umami flavour, a light salty touch, persisting malt and yeasty fruit sweetishness but, most importantly, a peppery, lightly citrussy, very floral hoppiness, aromatic (though gently so) as well as deeply bittering and drying without becoming too harsh; a juicy maltiness passes through. I was skeptical about another Belgian blonde, but these guys nailed it: this will not change the Belgian beer landscape, but it has achieved perfect balance between malt sweetness, estery fruitiness and hop bitterness. I’d have this over dozens of other Belgian blondes any time. Well considered, well conceived and well executed: this, to me, belongs to the top of an otherwise boring style, right up there with e.g. Westvleteren Blond or that elusive Westmalle Extra. A fine one indeed. This new beer company clearly knows what they are doing, tuning in to the international (American inspired) trends like more new Belgian micro breweries ought to do. The cross-pollination between these new American styles and the old European traditions is about the most exciting thing happening in Europe at the moment, and Cabardouche understood it; the tongue-in-cheek references to prostitution, because that is basically what it is, can only fit in surrealist Belgian context. I am out now, on the lookout for their third beer!
Stuu (34178) reviewed Stout Mokke from Bieren Cabardouche 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at billies beer cafe. Pours black, nose is roasted, dung, salty toffee, taste is similar, a little thin, light coffee.
MarcoDL (7855) reviewed Stout Mokke from Bieren Cabardouche 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Kulminator. Black pour. Aroma of roasted coffee, salty licorice and malt. Taste is creamy and thick, with milky coffee and salty licorice. Not bad.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Stout Mokke from Bieren Cabardouche 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Wijnegemse Drankenhal. Apparently a new Antwerp beer company brewing at Pirlot and honouring the Belgian tradition of cheekiness in its beer names. Thickly moussy, lacing, tan coloured, dense head over an extremely dark hazy bronze beer - looking totally black in the glass. Interesting aroma which I’d say is typical for ’Belgian stouts’: a combination of thick, roasted maltiness with Belgian yeastiness. I get impressions of baker’s chocolate, cold black coffee, dried banana, a lot of freshly cut thistles, a pleasant surprising bourbon odour though it is not BBA, walnuts, dried weeds, black tea, ’bloody’ iron, caramel, pear syrup, bayleaf, some burnt wood and a lot of toasted bread. Sweet onset but not cloyingly so, raisins, dried plums and a hint of pear, slick and full mouthfeel but not really as viscous as one would expect from a 9% ABV stout; a ’deep’, dull sourishness provides balance. Carbonation stays gentle and refined, as it should be in this style. A creamy, nutty maltiness follows, well-rounded and pleasant enough, evolving in a roasted bitterness of fondant chocolate and cold coffee, not too refined but certainly effective. The deep sourishness pairs well with the roasted bitterness in the finish; a peppery hop accent provides a ’lighter’, more herbal bitterness and a dash of warming, rhum-like alcohol rounds it off, but tingles a bit on the root of the tongue as well, on the edge of becoming wry without actually doing so; a retronasal coffee grounds effect reminds you of the fact you just swallowed a big and ambitious stout, and so does a trace of condensed chocolate sauce sweetness lingering at the back. I love stouts and am easily offended when they are badly made, as I have encountered a few times in this country, but this one passes: the nose is still very ’Belgian’, yeasty, herbal, banana ester and somewhat phenolic probably more than it should be, the body needs more density and viscosity, but the flavour as such does deliver, it has sufficient roastedness and ’boldness’. This has been made with care, that much is clear, and though it is not quite there yet, I can feel this brew may carry a lot of potential in it. Interesting find.
Joren Monnens (3486) ticked Stout Mokke from Bieren Cabardouche 10 years ago