Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle shared. Hazy light golden with big fluffy long lasting white head. Banana, cloves, sweet malts, crisp fresh malts, bread dough, bitter herbal hops, allspice, rosemary, a bit if pineapple, apple, light alcohol. Solidedium sweet and medium bitter. Full bodied, creamy with present but also creamy carbonation. Not bad for what it is at all, well done beer but not really my thing anymore.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Noire de Slack from Brasserie des 2 Caps 11 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
"Bière noire" (the French, chauvinistic as they are, seem to want to avoid the term "stout" in this case) from 2 Caps, a locally successful brewery operated by a Christophe Noyon; big thanks to my former colleague Jarno for bringing me this bottle from its region of origin, cheers mate! Huge, foamy, glass-filling, greyish beige, busily plaster-like lacing, uneven, rocky head over a clear, very dark chestnut brown robe - as good as black, but still with visibly mahogany brown hue. Aroma initially somewhat muted under all that foam, but then releasing impressions of diluted coffee grounds, toast, brown bread crust, liquorice candy, bayleaf, burnt blackcurrants, dried prunes, vague clove, strong iron (iron pipes) or even pewter growing stronger when warming up and clearly used as a head stabiliser. Relatively juicy onset, with a restrained sweetishness reminiscent of old dried prunes, even distant hints of pear and fig, but also with this underlying 'dim' sourishness typical for stouts in general; lively carbonation, but in a soft, small-bubbled way, through a slick, supple mouthfeel. Brown-bready malt core edged by immediately roasty, bittering 'blackness', but in a fairly soft way: drying and coffee-like, burnt toast even, but nowhere near black chocolate or molasses or anything of that kind. Ends with a near-ashy roasted bitterness enhanced by a more spicy, leafy hop bitterness, but this dried dark fruit juiciness lingers about a bit as well; meanwhile, a blood-like and eventually effectively metallic iron effect grows stronger, and the infamous 'hand test' confirms it, though not in an overwhelming way. Elements of bayleaf, clove and old dry liquorice linger about, but the coffee grounds, dried dark fruits (dried Eastern European prunes) and haemoglobin, along with the leafiness of the hops, get the last word. Especially this spicy-roasty, eventually quite mouth-filling bitterness rules supreme. Quite a basic, slender but tasty and effective dry stout with Irish influences - note that this is the westernmost part of France and Anglo-Saxon influences are not as rare there as one may think - with a basic flavour structure that remains entertaining and agreeable enough, even though the iron effect and the fact that it was apparently filtered were totally unnecessary. Very decent, I surely enjoyed this one, but then I have a weakness for old school stouts, no matter where they come from. Less importantly perhaps, this one does take me back to a road trip I made with a couple of friends - to Cap Gris-Nez and Cap Blanc-Nez, in a time when 'craft beer' as a concept did not even exist in Europe in general, let alone in France. But that was thirty years ago...
Gerbeer (8336) reviewed D-Day Triple from Brasserie des 2 Caps 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330 ml bottle. Pours amber with moderate head and lots of carbonation. Aromas of soap, floral Belgian yeast, waxy lemons, a bit of coriander, and toasted malts. Flavors follow same with additional white pepper. Sharp, bitter citrus finish.
Gerbeer (8336) reviewed D-Day Black Ale from Brasserie des 2 Caps 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
330 ml bottle.
Pours a very dark brown with moderate head.
Aromas of cola and roasted malts.
Flavors of same. Mix of sweet and bitter.
Not too exciting but easy to drink.
Goozen (5582) reviewed Noire de Slack from Brasserie des 2 Caps 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle with cork 0,75ltr: Black coloured brew with an good taste of roasted malts and coffee. Also some smokey flavour in the beer too. Irish blackness meets Bambergian smokiness at the French Côte d’Opale.
Goozen (5582) reviewed Blanche de Wissant from Brasserie des 2 Caps 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle 0,33ltr: Hazy yellow coloured brew with the Old-Hoegaarden feel, an fruity taste and good thirstquenching abbilities.
minutemat (16469) reviewed Blanche de Wissant from Brasserie des 2 Caps 1 year ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
330ml bottle from a tourist information centre near Wissant as brewery was closed. Pours a hazed gold with floating remnants, small bubbly white head. Soft floral wit nose. Moderate Blanche character to taste.. myriad yeasty flavours are all there but toned down a touch. Pleasant enough.
Robin Svensson (13310) ticked D-Day Black Ale from Brasserie des 2 Caps 1 year ago
TomHendriksen (8276) reviewed D-Day Blonde from Brasserie des 2 Caps 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Flesje gekocht tijdens vakantie en gedronken met Inoven. Het is een licht troebel goudgeel bier met stevig wit schuim. Het heeft een aroma van citrus en gist. De smaak is zoet, fruitig en waterig. De nasmaak is iets bitter.