75cl bottle courtesy of and shared with sebletitje. It pours with mahogany colored body and supporting a full mocha colored head of foam. The modest aroma offers up a mix of brown sugar and dark roasted malts to chocolate malts. The taste begins with dark roasted malts and some chocolate mixing with brown sugar and small spikes of vague hop bitterness. Into the finish it picks up a mild sweet prune and muted spicy oak sensation as well as faint toasted toffee notes deep into the after taste. The toasted toffee I’m getting really helps pull this beer together.

Reddish brown colour, beige head. Sweet aroma, caramel and butter. Sweet flavour, very sweet actually. Some caramel and malts. Sweet caramel finish.
Quite boring beer, but drinkable.
(From 75cL bottle @ ZZT VI. Bottle 637/1000. Courtesy of Benzai. Thanks for sharing, Rene!)

75cl bottle shared with Ibrew2or3. Bottle #124/1000. Brune foncée, col beige. Arôme reste très belge dans l’approche, note malté, caramel, léger fruité avec un Porto restant moyen tirant le bouquet vers un léger fruité rouge-vin chaud. Ceci étant, ce bouquet maintient une affiche très européenne entre Vienna et Pils. Palasi présente une belle effervescence, sucre résiduel caramélisé, légère pointe de chocolat prenant des allures de toffee. Iic pas vraiment de barrique vu que le Porto est rajouté à la bière. Le tout reste sec et fruité rouge avec pour moi un profil chocolaté profond. Les houblons arrivent en fin de bouche, ajoutant une fine note d’amertume citronnée et fleuri neutre noble euro. Note de cerise et raisin. Compte tenu des essais parfois infructueux d’autres brasserie (HTD pour ne pas la citer) à des bières en barrique, cette dernière reste agréable. Garde cependant une signature très belge que le côté Porto parvient à rendre intéressant.

bab 2013 smells sugary . looks brown, small lightbrown foam. tastes familiar in some way.. light and sharp carbo. bread, earthy , complex and balanced. ok

Sampled from bottle @ ZZT VI. Dark brown color with a deep red glare coming through, medium sized beige head. Smell malts, sweetness. Taste malts, sweetness, caramel. Medium carbonation, medium body.

Bottle @ ZZT VI thx to benzai. Dark brown colour with some ruby redness shining through, beige head. Smells heavily sweet, raisins. Tastes raisins, sweet (too sweet), brown sugar. Medium body, lots of carbo.

Good medium, rather dense dark beige head, over well-carbonated deep dark brown beer; Bit bready nose, leafy and earthy. Melanoidiens and some alcohol-drenched wood, but I don’t seem to get the portaromas. (Love) gone already? Bitterish - roasted flavour, with a malty backing that makes it taste as the baked edges/crusts of a gingerbread loaf. Some alcohol there, hints at some drink, but blind I’d never guessed portwine. Warming up, leafy flavours, tad of (non-sweet) milk chocolate. Feels very carbonated, spritzy. Alcoholwarming. Slick, but not much more than medium bodied - probably well-attenuated. Interesting tryout (and to be honest, much better than I feared). Might be a point of discussion whether this is beer or rather a beercocktail, but given blind, I’d named it beer outright.

From tap. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is spiced, loght herbal and roasted malty. Fruity, mild milky and light citric. Toasted malty and light breadish. Bitter and light toasted into the finish.

75 cl. bottle sampled @ Brugs Bier Festival 2013. Dark brown with a small mocha head. Smell is BE hops, floral, dark fruits, sweet chocolate, lightly milky, milk choc. Taste is a bit watery, light cardboard, grainy, coffee, grounds, milk chocolate, overripe fruits & some herbs. Touch too light, grainy,… Agreeable and bland & not really experimental flavour-wise in my book.

Sample @ Brugge Bierfest ’13. Brune foncée, col épais beige presque café au lait. Arôme malté, fruité noir, le tout amplifié par un malt type crystal et renforcé par une pointe de grillé. Houblon est en retrait et ajoute un léger côté fleuri. Palais donne une fine note d’aigreur fruitée rappelant la barrique, malt caramel suivi d’une touche sucrée, presque candy. Sèche avec un apport houblonné contribuant à de brèves notes d’amertume.