Can at home for CollaBoostFest 2020. A murky deep orange amber coloured pour with a thin whisp of white. Aroma is nice fresh green mango, spicy chilly, green pepper, with gooey banana bread, smoked chilly pepper.. Doesn't quite work, but is interesting. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, tangy sour, green apple, spicy top of the mouth mellow heat, green pepper, rounded wheat malts, prickly . Palate is semi sweet, prickly, green, moderate carbonation, light tang. Mellow warming in the finish.

Smell- medium strong, malt, roast, cofee Foam- medium-thick, malty, roasty, some alcohol tones. The Head is small, quite dark brown in color. Appearance- brewer bottle cap, dark, evil, atmospheric looking label, I like it. Black color, no carbonation, some sediment at the bottom. From- snifter Taste - malty, coffee, alcohol, roast, some sweetness, and more coffee. Very cofee-ish and malty, some sweetness in the mix. Not bad actually, alcohol is not well hidden, but it is quite high anyway. Not bad.

17/X/20 - on tap, shared @ DOK Brewing Company (Gent), BB: n/a (2020-978)

Pretty clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, pretty stable, non adhesive. Aroma: nice roast, some dried fruits, malty, chocolate touch, hint of mocha. MF: lively carbon, medium to light body. Taste: pretty sourish, cola flavoured candy, hint of balsamic, red fruits, nice and refreshing, very thirst quenching, somewhat light red sour cherries, very fruity, soft bitter. Aftertaste: clean, nice acidity, sour cherries, bit watery, bitter notes, dry, some tannins.

(Draught at BrewDog Kungsholmen, Stockholm, 24 July 2020) Amber colour, slightly hazy, with foamy off-white head. Hoppy, sourish nose with citrus, mandarin, orange peel and pine needles. Fruity, tart taste with notes of mandarin, orange peel, apricots, pine needles and a balanced citric, piney bitterness. Medium body, with a touch of sweetness. Tasty and well balanced with a mild acidity and a fresh hop character. Quite nice.

22 August 2020. At Dok Brewing Company, Ghent. Cheers to Anke, mom & dad's belated Father's Day! Cloudy black with a stable, small, foamy, tan head. Aroma of candied fig, prune, bourbon, vanilla, brownie dough, chocolate chips, custard, dark fudge, creamy coffee. Taste has sweet fig, chocolate & fudge with a sourish edge of brambleberry, powdery effect on a toasty bitter body with a touch of vanilla. Herbal hoppy finish, even more toasty yet dark chocolate & brownie linger. Some warming whisky alcohol in the throat. Full body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Very nice, didn't really expect it from Hof ten Dormaal to be honest...

Collaboration between Tempel in Sweden and Hof ten Dormaal in Belgium, a hefty imperial stout, tasted nitro-tapped at Dok in Ghent. Very creamy (nitro) head, yellowish beige, regularly shaped and sitting stable on a black beer with very thin mahogany edging. Aroma of coffee cream, cappuccino, actual black coffee, caramel, freshly whipped cream (largely the nitro effect again), bitter chocolate, praliné, roasted chicory, dry clay, bayleaf, rainwater falling on hot rocks, thyme, liquorice. Sweetish with light sourish edge as well as some restrained background umami, medium carbonated, with a thick, syrupy and evidently very creamy mouthfeel (again strongly enhanced by the nitro tap effect); smooth praliné- en toffee-like core with some minerally accents at the sides, bitter chocolate sauce-like with a full roasty coffee character towards the end - so that the initial desserty sweetness effectively makes a turn of 180° and switches to dark roasty bitterness in an instant, fascinatingly. Long, mouth-filling finish with some clove- and bayleaf-like touches, as well as rum-like, warming alcohol. Lacks a bit in complexity for me but I suspect the nitro tap treatment has polished away some of the beer's edginess; I do appreciate the outspoken roasted bitterness in the second half of the flavour 'parcours', though, especially in a time when imperial stouts have often become way too sweet (even with pastry stouts aside).

Can at home, Nivala. Colour is cloudy golden with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, lime, some strawberries, sourness and some tartness.

Canned, from Systembolaget. Black with small beige head. Aroma of licorice and ash. Dry with medium body and clean mouthfeel. Ash, licorice, medicinal smoky notes. Peppery finish with resinous bitterness.