5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Sediment-laden dark brown body with orange highlights, thin-medium clumping cream head. Potent nose of sweet breads, red licorice, and lots of plum and milk chocolate, almost syrupy. Vinous. Ridiculously tart, sweet body, with brown sugar, chocolate, dark fruits, and alcohol. Cloying. I am not a fan.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2007
at 16:25
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Medium, dense, just off-white head over hazy grain-coloured beer. Fine citrussy aroma, and the brewer-undetectable white candi sugar. Spicy compound too, peppery and hinting at the coriander, as well as to (EU...)hops. Spicy-bitter taste, quite a bit earthy, rootspices. Thankfully I cannot detect the coriander but by a slight citrussy/orangey retronasal flavour. Very strangely, the very last sip had a retronasal flavour, that I only can describe as camphor? Certain backthroat tartness, again ~ the citrussy flavour; bit burning MF, medium bodied, quite slick, including wheatslickness. Not bad. I might have preferred a more hop-tilted balance, but compared to other such brews, adorning themselves with much hoppier names, it is a vast improvement. Dank U, Geroen, een zeer mooi gebaar!
Tried
from Can
on 17 Dec 2007
at 14:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
From tap, Kerstbierfestival 2007 in Essen/Belgium. Pours slight hazy orange with a huge off-white head. Caramel malt and hoppy aroma. Flavour is sweet and quite hoppy. Solid bitterness in the finish. Lovely
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Dec 2007
at 06:09
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Little stub bottle. Pours out a dark brown topped with a tall tan head. A nice aroma of a porter. With some roast and smoke. Tast a lot of the Alcohol not covered very well. Pretty cool brew. But as for Imperial stout not that high on the list.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Dec 2007
at 21:55
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Well this is a heck of a beer drinking experience. I thought I had tried all the fusion beers but I was blown away by this. It is really a Belgian-Imperial Stout mix and it hits you right in the kisser.
APPEARANCE: Pours with a HUMONGOUS brown head that just doesn’t go anywhere. Best you can get is a surface covering thats a centimeter thickness. And of course a black body with brown highlights. So yeah, it pours like a Belgian - BIGGEST IMP STOUT HEAD EVER!! The yeasty part, well the head just looks like a pillow. You know what, I am just going lay my head right upon it (better than that $5 crap at Cost-Co).
AROMA: First of very fruity, high fermentation temperature apparent right away. A big shocker for an Imperial Stout and this really sets the tracks for the rest of the beer. Very milky chocolate behind that and a characteristic Belgian "airy" feel to the aroma. But as seen in the rest of the beer, the Belgian characteristics are usurping the traditional Impy aspects.
TASTE : Again a very yeasty-fruitiness with a grainy pepper-iness (in an Imp you say, well YES). Then it goes into a long flavor of fruit and bittered cereal with just accents of dark chocolate on the side of the cheeks.
MOUTHFEEL: Easy drinking cannot describe this. The carbonation combines with a body that seems to have little residual sugars. Making it just so damn gulp-able (thats right who ever used that term before). No bitterness and a medium-light body.
OVERALL: This is a Belgian Strong ale masquerading as an Imperial Stout and well its awesome. I would like some more chocolate, roast and hop bite. Just a pinch to make it more equal but otherwise this is a great Belgian. Alcohol, 10.5, no way Jose. Its not that its all that amazing in the end, it’s the creativity of this beer. This is what makes craft beer fun (please someone shot me if I have to drink another generic hoppy micro).
11.2oz bottle with a label that peels off very easily, Chimay goblet glass that has only a slightlly weathered silver ring around the mouth.
APPEARANCE: Pours with a HUMONGOUS brown head that just doesn’t go anywhere. Best you can get is a surface covering thats a centimeter thickness. And of course a black body with brown highlights. So yeah, it pours like a Belgian - BIGGEST IMP STOUT HEAD EVER!! The yeasty part, well the head just looks like a pillow. You know what, I am just going lay my head right upon it (better than that $5 crap at Cost-Co).
AROMA: First of very fruity, high fermentation temperature apparent right away. A big shocker for an Imperial Stout and this really sets the tracks for the rest of the beer. Very milky chocolate behind that and a characteristic Belgian "airy" feel to the aroma. But as seen in the rest of the beer, the Belgian characteristics are usurping the traditional Impy aspects.
TASTE : Again a very yeasty-fruitiness with a grainy pepper-iness (in an Imp you say, well YES). Then it goes into a long flavor of fruit and bittered cereal with just accents of dark chocolate on the side of the cheeks.
MOUTHFEEL: Easy drinking cannot describe this. The carbonation combines with a body that seems to have little residual sugars. Making it just so damn gulp-able (thats right who ever used that term before). No bitterness and a medium-light body.
OVERALL: This is a Belgian Strong ale masquerading as an Imperial Stout and well its awesome. I would like some more chocolate, roast and hop bite. Just a pinch to make it more equal but otherwise this is a great Belgian. Alcohol, 10.5, no way Jose. Its not that its all that amazing in the end, it’s the creativity of this beer. This is what makes craft beer fun (please someone shot me if I have to drink another generic hoppy micro).
11.2oz bottle with a label that peels off very easily, Chimay goblet glass that has only a slightlly weathered silver ring around the mouth.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Dec 2007
at 19:32
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Nice, a bit unique. Of the small number of Belgian stouts I’ve had, I liked this one the best, but I’m not certain its a type of beer I’m crazy about. Light cocoa nose with hints of phenol and a vague prune or date fruitiness. Highly carbonated, fizzy to the point that the dark chocolatey malt flavors are carried off the tongue leaving only just a hint of their presence, into a drying, mildly chalky dry cocoa powder finish. Despite the high fizz, this does high a full body, that seems rounded.
Tried
on 02 Dec 2007
at 11:39
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
color ambra schiuma abbondante aderente e persistente ma per niente fine sentori speziati netti di luppolo in bocca leggermente acidula decisamente tendente all’ amaro dei luppoli erbacei
Tried
on 23 Nov 2007
at 08:33
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
11.2oz bottle-pours a shaving cream light tan head and cloudy yellow/brown color. Aroma is yeast, malt, herbal/citrus-orange. Taste is yeast, malt, herbal/citrus-orange/spice hops. Not 115 IBU’s to my taste. Kind of a home brew character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Nov 2007
at 21:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Red-brown hazy beer; disappearing beige head. Very nice lactic acid nose, bit lemony, obvious wood. Very dry in the mouth, lactic acid is there, but gets overwhelmed by a more stout-like, roasted taste, unusual in Oud Bruin. Finish is a bit wild yeast-like. Thinned by the acids, but not empty. A bit more lactic acid in the taste, as well as some sweet malts would make it more classical Oud Bruin. In the mean time, it’s quite good on its own. Certainly one of their better tries.
Tried
on 11 Nov 2007
at 02:09
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
After having a positive experience with their imperial stout, I’ve decided to give this one a shot, despite people advising me otherwise - cloudy orange/gold beer, with a slight foamy ring - strong, sweet orange and apricot aroma, with light perfume and flowers and a slight metallic character - high but somewhat soft carbonation - strong bitterness combines with a vegetable and citrus pulp flavor, but in ways that do not compliment each other well - citrus tanginess, and a belgian fruitiness that the hops don;t fare well with - they need to take a lesson from la chouffe or guldenberg on how to make a hoppy belgian ale - I should have listened.
Tried
on 04 Nov 2007
at 20:40