7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Almost black. Not too big mocha head which recedes quite quickly but still leaves a bit of lacing. A vivid and warming aroma shows roasted, slightly ’dusty’ malts, liquorice, alcohol warminess and a hint of spiciness. Taste has a bittersweet malt base with caramel and roasted notes, slight coffee, slight spiciness, liquorice and a balsam/herbal note. Finishes again bittersweet with a mild but still not too pleasant aftertaste of burnt caramel/alcohol that quite ruins a very good and complex taste. Medium to dense bodied with low to medium carbonation, quite thick but still going down easy enough. Overall a difficult beer to find words for, let’s say that’s somewhere in the middle of a belgian strong dark ale and a stout. Complex and interesting, maybe not perfectly balanced.
Tried
on 23 Jun 2017
at 03:33