Bouteille 33cl, BB 29/11/2018. Brune foncée, col épais crémeux blanc-cassé. Arôme au nez malté, finement grillé avec une belle pointe de chocolaté, rétro houblonné, finement fruité agrumes - chops? Palais est malté, chocolaté avec une pointe de grillé, touche réglisse en fin de bouche et un apport fin de fumé et petite note de café. Houblon - finement résineux ajoute un effet d’amertume qui complète bien le caractère malté de la bière.

Bottle @ Trollekelder, Gent. Black with a big light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt and light hoppy. Flavor is medium sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. Has the hoppy bitterness of a Black IPA, but would be even better with some aroma hops. 170317

Bottle, BB 21.04.2018 (from beergium). Pours golden with white head. The head stays for some time. Aroma is sweet, fruits, pineapple, citrus, bretty notes. Flavor is sweet and bitter, fruits, pineapple, medicinal notes, bretty notes. Finish is sugary sweet and dry bitter. Alcohol is well covered. Overall: very good Belgian IPA, bit sugary, but I guess this is kind of expected.

Bottle, 330 ml from Beergium, shared with JFK1000, Max and Domagoj. Pours hazy golden with average white head. Malty, heavy yeasty, barnyard, some citrus notes, light sweetness, moderate bitterness. Medium bodied.

Bottled. Hazy golden colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is citrus, some herbs, mild spices as well as some yeast and mild maltiness. Flavour is sweet fruits, some sweet malts as well as mild zest, some grassy bitterness and mild spiciness.

Another one I forgot to take notes of in spite of having tasted it two times already, the first time at Trollekelder by Ster’s recommendation, somewhere in December last year. Rating from sheer memory but I’m determined to go back and take notes. Moussy, medium thick, dense, pale yellowish beige head, very dark but still more or less translucent, ’off-black’ bronze robe. Aroma of coffee grounds, bitter chocolate, liquorice, ’natural’ iron, burnt brown sugar, toasted bread, dried banana, fig, black tea. Restrained but well-placed dried fruit sweetness in the onset alongside a ’dim’ sourish note fit for a stout, gently carbonated with oily, smooth and sufficiently ’full’ mouthfeel, nutty and toasted with a light coffeeish roasted touch in the end, bittersweet with herbal hop bitterness in the finish, some dried fruits lingering. Pleasantly surprised by this one’s profile which is not overly Belgian, if tasted blind, I would have situated this in some non-Anglo-Saxon, ’new’ craft beer country (Netherlands, Spain, eastern Europe), if you get my drift. Will certainly revisit - with pen and paper nearby.

Thnx to Tim ! pours dark brown, OK white head. Smell is bit roasty, hoppy. Taste is full, hoppy , dark malts, creamy. OK mf and carbo. Not bad !

Thank you Kraddel & tderoeck. 330 ml. bottle sampled. BBF 29/11/18. Dark red amber, wouldn’t call it black or even black-ish, creamy tanned head. Nose is metallic herbal, licorice, faint hop, almost pine, mellow notes, low kitche spices. Taste is decent metallic licorice, herbal, bitter bark, spices, bit fizzy, plastic fruit, moacha. Okay beer, makes me think more of a Belgian Ale than a stout. Body is bit thin, fizzy, metallic, some mocha. Nowhere near the quality of their Blond.