7

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

bottled on 12/10/18 scura schiuma quasi niente melasa liquorosa vaniglia uvetta corpo medio amaro contenuto finale etilico

8.4

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

24th July 2019
Opens lively this one, not a gusher but don't open on your best cloth cover sofa and pour carefully. Hazy orange beer, mahoooosive bubbly pale cream colour head. Fluffy palate, crisp and semi dry. The various array of Romanian fruit brandy's matured in the various wood barrels provide a wonderfully complex beer. Floral fruits and floral bright citrus, layer upon layer. Floral lemon and subtle but bright tangerine and orange. A little plum brandy in there, light as a feather. Trace of cherry. Soft floral apple and pear overtones. Little candy fruits. Modest floral bitterness on the soft finish. Probably covered about 35% of what is going on here. There are many more subtler layers going on. Never heard of this brandy but it comes in an interesting variety of flavours and wood treatments. Whoever thought of using these and blending in to a beer, I doff my hat. Great vision and great blending. Could drink this until I fell over and still find new things to gibber about.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle shared at Luppolo Station in Rome, thank you Fabio. Typical quadrupel color with an ivory lacing. Nose: raisins and cane sugar, sweet dried fruit. Mouth is thin at first with an alcohol boost. Nice

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bouteille 33cl, Bottled 24/11/2018, BB 2 years @ Niamey Craft Beer tasting, thanks Madalin. Light gusher. Couleur dorée sur léger voile, col assez conséquent et tenace dû à l'ouverture mais sans signe d'infection. Arôme donne de suite des effluves rappelant la palincă avec de premier abord des notes de pommes vertes et un léger coté prunes. Je retrouve aussi des pointes de levures belges dont des esters assez généreux qui augmentent le caractère de triple. Houblonné léger en rétro axés sur un côté noble. Palais est dans la même lignée, pour avoir dégusté la palincă à plusieurs reprises, l'usage de bois de nombreuses variétés vient ajouter une complexité en bouche tout en alternant entre le côté léger et acerbe de pomme, et une petite douceur de prune, ici la poire reste plus discrète. Sur la fin, léger effet de sucre candi. Très belle surprise de cette petite brasserie roumaine qui semble se spécialiser dans les styles belges.

8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Waxed bouteille 33cl, @ Niamey Craft Beer tasting, thanks Madalin. Brune foncée, col fin beige. Arôme, dès ouverture je ressens les effluves d'un style belge, ici un bouquet levure belge marqué avec une addition de fruits noirs fort plaisant. Le tout sur de belles notes de rhum qui confère un côté oscillant entre malté et Rhum - léger boisé. Palais est délicieux, belle base de quad typiquement dans une lignée belge - retrouve les élément ester de levure un peu banane, fruits noirs entre date/figue et raisin secs, petite note de sucre candi - presque de mélasse et sucre de cane. Légèrement collant aux lèvres avec un excellent usage de barrique de rhum. Fini reprend de belles notes de malts entre toastés et fin chocolaté.

7.2

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

This beer hits the homeruns on certain aspects but falls short on others. The flavour is great, the body lacks. The abv warmth is nice and balances the beer, but is certainly present. La 100 beers Bucharest

7.5

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

Pitch black, fast diminishing mocha head. The aroma is not the showiest - humble dark sugars and some burnt / roast notes. Very light hints of alcohol and peppery spice. You do get some dark alcohol soaked dried fruit as the temperature goes up. So, roughly a Quadrupel / Impy hybrid, just not as bold as expected. The taste, on the other hand, is bolder and even closer to a Quad - not as much chocolate, roasty coffee or big dark sugars, as there's alcohol soaked dark fruit, light notes of dark bread crust, some basement / mold notes, palate numbing alcohol and light spicy bitterness. All, in a traditionally thin and easy drinking body. Imperial Stout is a bit of a misnomer for this beer, otherwise a decent Belgian Dark strongie - not as showy as American style implies, but it does have other strong sides.

8

Brett, medicine, dried herbs, salt. Dry, crisp and easy drinking. 3.8