Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Tap at Peders. Dark. Coffee, milk chocolate, dark chocolate. Slow; coffee syrup. Fizzy. Warm, slow burn, long. Roasted. Chocolate. Not too sweet. Like.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Tap at Peders. Black, low head. Dark chocolate, roast coffee, rich chocolate sirup, coffee retronasal. Medium full dry body, a bit sirup, coffee liquor filled praline. Rich, but Quite pleasant dessert.
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Black with a foamy, beige head. Coffee aroma with a touch of chocolate. Taste is mildly coffee ground bitter with both tart and sweet underlying tones. Light bodied, but still some residual chewiness. Obviously not the depth of the original, but for the style this is about as good as it gets.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
750mL bottle, pours a deep dark mahogany with a small beige head. Aroma is full of intense port barrels, huge caramel malt, fermented out brown sugar, and prominent hops. Flavour is massive, with huge port barrels, intense bitterness from the hops that lingers, and brown sugar. Massive hops and dark sugars. Slightly brutal but this works beautifully.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown. Aroma is artificial banana, and a bit of speedway coffee. This has a good base but layering on a weird fake banana is just odd.
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16 oz. can, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma has plenty of banana, sugars, a little coffee, and a touch of vanilla. Flavour is much less banana-dominated, with plenty of coffee, some vanilla, very gentle banana, and some cocoa. Nice coffee to balance the banana. Good stuff if you’re gonna do something egregious like this.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Pint can pours with a murky mahogany colored body that supports a light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up caramelized malts, modest vague hop bitterness, plum like dark fruity esters and then spicy rye booze. The taste delvers smooth malts heading quickly into spicy rye booze and spicy to pine like hoppiness. It becomes increasingly sweet to midway as the oak and bourbon bubble up to the surface. Toward the finish the booziness comes forward and helps finish the experience. This is a great sipper.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16 oz can. Aroma is cinnamon, dark bread, coffee, vanilla, raisin, molasses, caramel. Pours very dark brown to black with a half finger tan head that falls into a ring quickly. Taste is moderately sweet and highly bitter (for style). Tastes a lot like a stroopwafel, but bitter.
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1 pint can from Drikbeer Advent calendar, #10. Canned 03/03/25. Almost black beer with quickly fading brown head. Aroma is coffee, ashes and roasted malts with some peanuts and cocoa. Flavor is roasted coffee with peanuts, some cocoa and ashes. Full body. Good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown. This has a lot of apple on the nose, maybe a bit of spice. On the palate, some cinnamon and a lot of coffee roast from the base. It's fun, as these usually are, but not especially complex beyond smacking you over the head with coffee, apple and cinnamon.