7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
330mL bottle, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out plenty of the fine red wine barrels upfront, with low roast, but plenty of wood. Flavour likewise brings out a wonderful Armagnac character, with lots of red wine, wood, and just enough roasted malt underneath to provide a sturdy backbone. The red wine is rather monolithic but the flavours are pleasant. Great stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2019
at 06:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Le Trois 8, pours a cloudy golden with a medium white head. Aroma brings out dank hops (love that citra), with lots of pine, and biscuity malt. Flavour is loaded with piney hops, gentle dank hops, and backed by biscuity malt. Dank and piney. This is excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Dec 2019
at 11:34
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
07-12-19 // tap at GIST in Brussels. at GIST Hazy yellow. White head. Sweet fruity nose. Soft. Juicy. But with a bitterness as well. Tropical. Great. --- Beer merged from original tick of DIPA #3 Mosaic Ekuanot on 07 Dec 2019 at 21:55 - Score: 8. Original review text: Hazy yellow. White head. Sweet fruity nose. Soft. Juicy. But with a bitterness as well. Tropical. Great.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Dec 2019
at 16:09
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
‘Double’ BIPA by this brewery in the Roubaix region in France; from tap at GIST in Brussels. Very dense, thickly paper-lacing, pale yellowish beige, stable head on a black beer with near-clear burgundy edges. Aroma of toasted walnuts, grapefruit peel, pine resin, a hint of beef stock, black peppercorns, damp tree leaves, cold black coffee, toasted bread. Sweetish onset with a dash of fig jam and candied date, light beef stock-like umami accent, light sourish undertone; fizzy carb, supple and full oily body. Toasty, somewhat caramelly and walnutty malt body, bittersweet with growing roasted bitterness in the end, blending with peppery, rooty, piney, leafy hop bitterness, all tied together by warming yet not too obtrusive, rum-like alcohol. Like many European black IPAs (‘European Cascadian ales’ sounds far-fetched), a bit too much tilted towards maltiness and insufficiently towards (aromatic) hoppiness so in that sense more like a very hoppy stout than a true black IPA – but this one comes closer to that delicate balance than many others I’ve had and is in all respects a bold, big, very well-made brew I would very happily drink again. Pleasantly surprised, apparently France hasn’t ceased to develop further in craft beer ever since pioneers like Thiriez and Mont Salève began attracting international attention.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Dec 2019
at 15:41
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
The third one in what is apparently a growing series of DIPAs by this northern French microbrewer in the Roubaix region – hopped with Mosaic and Ekuanot. Thanks Jan for sharing at GIST. Thick, egg-white, mousy, lacing head, cloudy yolk-yellowish blonde robe. Aroma of old onions, stale sweat even, diesel but also yellow kiwi, mango, starfruit, bread crumbs. Sweetish onset, fizzy, light sourish note, dried mango and vague guava aspects, ripe pineapple perhaps, soft bread-pulpy body, a bit powdery from hop residue in this case and quickly soaked in mango-, pineapple- and strongly dank sweat- and onion-like New World hop aromas. The hops add a late peppery bitter note as well, while the alcohol remains very well hidden. Clearly aiming for Trillium or Tree House style DIPA, not quite getting there, but a very meritorious attempt nonetheless – never saw this coming from France, to be honest. Along with a few Popihn brews, the best French IPA I had so far.
Tried
on 10 Dec 2019
at 15:40
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home from La Cave a Bulles, 6th December 19. Pours a dark brown beer, aroma is citrus and cocoa, aromatic. Taste is smooth, roasty, hoppy, some tangerine, a little juice, some bitterness, drinks below the ABV, very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Dec 2019
at 08:16
8.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
24 October 2019. At Gist, Brussels. Shared with the lovely Anke! Pours cloudy back with a lasting, thick, frothy, beige head; lots of lacing. Aroma of milk chocolate, cream, soy milk, Worcestershire sauce, vague green apple (acetaldehyde), candied date, wood, meringue. Taste is medium malty sweet, fruity raisin, fig & a whiff of green apple, thicky chocolatey & creamy base, going over bitter coffee & wood with a soft umami soy touch. Dry, earthy hoppy finish, lingering red fruit, woody vanilla, warming armagnac-like alcohol. Full body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Elegant barrel-aged Imperial Stout, too bad about that 'youthful' accent'.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Dec 2019
at 14:04
8.6/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 9
Overall 8.5
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Tried
from Draft
on 30 Oct 2019
at 12:26