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330ml. bottle. @Bierbrasserie Cambrinus, Brugge (Belgium). 05/09/2022 [#5.371 Global - #208 Belgium - #1 De Damse Brouwers (My Belgian brewery #83)] Pours dark brown with a tan head. Aroma: chocolate, chestnut and caramel malts. Taste: dark caramelly malts, some toffee and herbal hops. Strong sweet finish. Next one please!

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33cl bottle in Bierbrasserie Cambrinus, Brugge: 6th September 2022. Clean blond pour, white crown. Malty front with a slight yeasty undertone, lightly spiced and all bit 'understated' and bland considering there are supposed to be four different malts and four different hops used in the brew. Disappointed to be honest.

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Strong dark chocolate beer by Damse Brouwers executed at Gulden Spoor, making use of a dark chocolate type (Criollo) by recommendation of renowned (and popular) Bruges-based chocolatier Dominique Persoone. Many thanks to Jonathan for sharing! Egg-white, thick and moussy, stable head on a clear, dark chestnut brown beer with ruby red glow, misty with sediment. Aroma of hard caramel, liquorice, chestnut, bubblegum, toasted brown bread, fried pear, bayleaf, ‘Koetjesreep’, clove, old tea bags. Sweet onset, fruity notes of pear and fig, medium carbonation with full, slick, very smooth, somewhat resinous mouthfeel; caramelly and Ersatz-chocolatey maltiness with brown-bready edge and a vague touch of actual bitter chocolate, sweetish at first with some dark residual sugariness (as in a quad) but quickly shifting to toasty bitterness, though avoiding full-on coffee-like roastiness so that the sweetness keeps prevailing. Spicy notes of bayleaf and liquorice towards the finish, along with a ‘deep’ herbal hop bitter note and some warming, brandy-like alcohol; caramelly maltiness remains the key factor here, though. The added chocolate ironically remains very faint – in fact I had imperial stouts without chocolate at all that had a more chocolatey profile than this… Implicitly intended as an imperial stout the Belgian way I suppose, but going all Anglo-Saxon on this and creating a thick, roasty, jet black stout would have been the better option, as it would only have accentuated the chocolate intentions, which now remain too understated. Otherwise a fine, warming sipper, decently constructed on a pure technical level.

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330ml bottle in Bierbrasserie Cambrinus, Brugge on 3rd Feb 2020. Tanned head on a dark brown body, mini-haze to the pour. Coffee and chocolate in the aroma and taste, some herbal/spice hints in the flavour. Not as sweet as I thought it might be.

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Pours clear, dark reddish brown. Small, medium unstable, tanned and creamy head. Smell is malty, chocolaty, mildly earthy, coffee (raw coffee ). Sweet impression and BE yeast. Taste is full, rather sweet, mild bitterness. Earthy. Much phenols and esters. Easrthy cocoa. Raw coffee. Sweet ending, candy sugar. Medium body and carbo. Bit bitter ending ( by the added cocoa ? )

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

330ml bottle bought from Dominique Persoone's chocolate shop in Bruges. Pours dark, medium pale tan head. Aroma has some prominent deep chocolate, not too milky. Taste is smooth, dark malts, thick chocolate, not too grainy, not too bitter, fairly full palate, decent overall but expected a bit more cocoa prominence.

Imported from untappd on 02-05-2020

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29 June 2019. At Cambrinus, Bruges. Cheers to the family! Pours hazy ochre-golden with a slowly thinning, frothy, off-white head. Aroma of perfume, rose water, ripe orange, pepper, honey, brioche, toasted white bread, garden herbs - chamomile perhaps? Taste is light to medium malty sweet, bready & brioche-like, ripe fruit notes of bannaa & orange going over bitter accents of pepper, herbs & tea leaves with some honey & perfume in the back. Dryish, floral hoppy finish, lingering ripe fruit, perfume, rather weird herbal effect again. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. A bit weird yet still mildly promising, but unconvincing in the end.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

sample shared @ Bruges Beer Festival 2019 day 1. with 77ships and tderoeck. F: thin, tan, quick gone. C: dark brown, almost clear. A: malty, chocolate, dark dried fruits, caramel, bit toffee. T: malty base, caramel, dried fruits, toffee, medium body and carbonation, not bad, enjoyed.