Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Craigs. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aromas of chocolate, light toffee, liquorice. Taste is oat biscuits, molasses. Sweet finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at Craigs. Pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of light smoke, tar, dark stone fruits. Taste is dark chocolate and fruit. Dark sugary finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at craig’s. Pours black, nose is chocolate, toffee, light liquorice, taste is dry, biscuit, chocolate, sweet.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
bottle at home ... dark brown black ... thin tan lacing ... soft berries ... soft dark fruits .. light chocolate roast ... dark sweet malts .. soft toffee chocolate .. soft licorice chocolate .. not as roasty as id like
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at craig’s. Pours black, nose is toffee, biscuit, light fruit, taste is dry, sweet, caramel, chocolate.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle at home ... dark brown.. thin lacing ... soft sweet toffee malt nose ... herbal toffee roast ... light coffeer blackcurrant .. soft tofee ... light licorice ... soft sweet chocolate licorce roast
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Big thanks to quack-duck for that one! Bottle looks really good. Beer in the glass zippy, nice head. Starts intense hoppy, grasy, some flowery notes, modest bitter. Well balanced finish, a bit milder, still fine hoppy notes. Not bad!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
330 ml. bottle @ home. BBF 07/2020. RIS with vanilla, cinnamon & oak nuts I think? Not sure my French is not that good. Made by a new Parisian brewery with both brewers apparently having foreign experience. Very dark brown with a solid creamy mocha head. Nose is sharp surprisingly alcoholic, followed by soy sauce followed by light mocha. Taste is rather umami, plenty of soy sauce and roast, some pralines, not really getting cinnamon, maybe some faint vanilla, getting some charcoal, there is some booze in the back but nowhere near as heavy as in the smell. Lightly syrupy. Overall decent, not very expressive, some mocha, strong roast & soy sauce mainly. Okay but one would expect more given these ingredients. Given that most French breweries are not that impressive, this one might deserve some additional praise.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared thanks to Scott. Pours very dark brown with a minimal beige head. Aroma of ground coffee, a little green, roast and dark chocolate. Flavour is moderate sweet and over moderate bitter. Vanilla showing up lightly in the palate. Medium bodied with light carbonation.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle at THT thanks to Scott. Hazy dark brown with minimal off white head. Quite some coffee, old coffee, chocolate, light vanilla, roasted malts and some minerals towards the finish. Medium sweet with roasted bitter finish. Medium bodied with slick feel and barely any carbonation.