Bottle from Carrefour Viviers. Hazy blonde with a medium head. Aroma of nutty kernels. Flavour is dusty wheat, but on a soft citrus grain base, dusty nut finish.

A clear golden beer with a big off white head. Aroma of intense herbal malt, yeast, banana. Taste of herbs, belgian yeast, banana, sparkling finish.

Clear dark golden beer with a beige head. Aroma of citrusy hops, oranges, mild grapefruit. Taste of resinous bitter hops, grapefruit, oranges, long bitter finish.

Slightly hazy dark golden beer with a beige head. Aroma of honey and strong pale malt. Taste of honey, stone fruits, strong pale malt.

Erhöhte Karbonisierung. Kräutrig hefiger Beginn. Die Karbonisierung bleibt stark, wenig süß, trocken. Zunehmend kräutrig, moderat herb, mittellanger Abgang. OK. 10/8/8/8/8/8

Literally the darkest one in the Chinelle series, but weirdly not advertised as a porter or a stout, just a ‘black beer’, as if colour in beer has anything to do with flavour… Anyway, thanks to my girlfriend for the bottle! Very thick and foamy, creamy and dense, pillowy, pale off-yellow beige head, very slowly dissipating over a near-clear, very dark chocolate brown beer, approaching black but with clear mahogany hue, turning misty with sediment. Aroma initially dominated by carbon dioxide but this fades very quickly, making room for impressions of black (and non-sweet) chocolate, black toast, caramel, coffee grounds, toasted hazelnuts, leather, dried sage, red apple, liquorice indeed (actually used here apparently, but not too overpowering), dry clay, bayleaf, clove, dried fig, old raisin. Very fizzy onset, harshly stinging carbonation but clean and focused in its flavour, first bringing restrained fruity effects of fig, red apple and dried blueberries, sweetish with a mild sourish touch; rounded, slick body, marred a bit by this overcarbonation effect initially. Smooth-edged hard-caramelly, brown-bready and thinly chocolatey maltiness, bittersweet with the caramelly sweetness overruling the toasted bitterness, but a coffee-like roasted effect certainly unfolds in the finish, albeit in a gentle, elegant manner. Mild leafy hop bitter notes along with a clove-like phenolic spiciness and a clear but luckily nowhere too dominant presence of the added liquorice join in a medium long, nutty-roasty, pleasant finish. English brown porter-like beer with ‘Belgian’ style overcarbonation, I’d say – but no Belgian yeastiness here, so remaining very sleek, Anglo-Saxon and clean; very pleasant and well executed, in all. --- Beer merged from original tick of Franchimont Chinelle Black on 15 Oct 2020 at 07:17 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: Literally the darkest one in the Chinelle series, but weirdly not advertised as a porter or a stout, just a ‘black beer’, as if colour in beer has anything to do with flavour… Anyway, thanks to my girlfriend for the bottle! Very thick and foamy, creamy and dense, pillowy, pale off-yellow beige head, very slowly dissipating over a near-clear, very dark chocolate brown beer, approaching black but with clear mahogany hue, turning misty with sediment. Aroma initially dominated by carbon dioxide but this fades very quickly, making room for impressions of black (and non-sweet) chocolate, black toast, caramel, coffee grounds, toasted hazelnuts, leather, dried sage, red apple, liquorice indeed (actually used here apparently, but not too overpowering), dry clay, bayleaf, clove, dried fig, old raisin. Very fizzy onset, harshly stinging carbonation but clean and focused in its flavour, first bringing restrained fruity effects of fig, red apple and dried blueberries, sweetish with a mild sourish touch; rounded, slick body, marred a bit by this overcarbonation effect initially. Smooth-edged hard-caramelly, brown-bready and thinly chocolatey maltiness, bittersweet with the caramelly sweetness overruling the toasted bitterness, but a coffee-like roasted effect certainly unfolds in the finish, albeit in a gentle, elegant manner. Mild leafy hop bitter notes along with a clove-like phenolic spiciness and a clear but luckily nowhere too dominant presence of the added liquorice join in a medium long, nutty-roasty, pleasant finish. English brown porter-like beer with ‘Belgian’ style overcarbonation, I’d say – but no Belgian yeastiness here, so remaining very sleek, Anglo-Saxon and clean; very pleasant and well executed, in all.

'Double IPA' named 'MoCiTa', after the hop varieties used: Mosaic, Citra and Target. Thanks to Goedele for bringing me this bottle (and others from this brewery) from the Franchimont region! Thick and frothy, egg-white, dense, papery lacing head on a lightly hazed, deep apricot golden beer with some floating yeast dots; turns cloudy and 'dirty' with the sediment added. Aroma of unripe mandarin, orange juice, soggy rusk, dried rosemary, wet bread crust, yellow grapefruit, bitter plant seeds, touch of lychee in the background, lemon thyme, honey, old potatoes, roses, ripe pear. Fruity onset both from hops and (more so) from esters, pointing at pear, pineapple, orange and red apple with a subtle dash of banana thrown in; fizzy carb, but small-bubbled and agreeable. Supple, slick body, quite 'full' though, bready and rusk-like, under a long, but not overly harsh, grapefruit juice- and herb-like hop bitterness, a tad peppery and rooty, but mildly so; notes of mango pulp, orange and lychee do show up but relatively faintly so, and get immediately buried under 'Belgian' yeast effects especially in the end, when more bready and fruity yeastiness comes up alongside too much residual sugariness (out of place in a genuine IPA if you ask me). A dash of gin-like alcohol is noticeable too (and could have been better hidden at this ABV, though it does not disturb me too much here). Seemingly intended as a 'true' American style DIPA, but this is of course one of those Belgian IPAs in all respects: a blonde or tripel style Belgian ale with a pronounced (usually New World) hop character. Not unpleasant, in all, but if you don't like a yeasty Belgian ale character, this is probably not one for you...