On tap at Proeflokaal Arendsnest, pours a hazy copper golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out overripe stone fruits, resinous hops and toasted caramel. Flavour is somewhat muffled, again with the overripe stone fruits, earthy resinous hops, and caramel. Not the most cohesive but it works decently enough.

33cl bottle (BBF: 12/2019) from Beerwulf webshop. F: thin, tanned, quick gone. C: black, opaque. A: a lot of smoky tones, smoked meat, caramel, leather, dark fruits. T: medium to full malty base, smoked meat, bit tobacco, caramel, smoked fish, bit dark fruits, soft carbonation, not very complex yet very good for sure, fully enjoyed.

Smokey porter, hints of intensity. Quite nice

Smooth, chocolate cream with a nice boozy aftertaste

Certainly fruity!

Well it’s definitely a Quad

Good bitterness in the flavour

American style imperial stout by this Amsterdam craft brewing company, named after the giant prehistoric shark (so an animal that has actually existed in this world rather than a ‘monster’). Pale yellowish beige, creamy, mousy ‘ring’ for a head, on black beer with reddish-burgundy hue. Aroma of toasted hazelnuts, melting bitter chocolate, walnut liqueur, black coffee, liquorish note, vanilla beans, black peppercorns, pipe tobacco, beef stock cubes. Sweet onset, candied figs and dried banana with a subtle but structurally important, black olive-like umami accent; soft carb, full oily body. Deeply walnutty and toffeeish maltiness, thick with a lovely black-chocolatey quality developing a bit later on and evolving into a strong roasted chicory-like, mouth-filling bitterness accentuated by strong, warming, peppery, rum-like alcohol and a spicy, leafy hop bitter note, while softening vanilla, liquorish and cinnamon effects linger around retronasally. Bit old school, but I for one like heavy stouts that way and this is way better than many other Dutch attempts at the style I have seen passing by in all those years – including certain Amsterdam breweries. Surprisingly decent.