Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
Aus der Flasche (bbe 31.01.2025) im 2023-07 getrunken. Dieses handwerklich get gebraute Stout hat deutliche Kaffee-Aromen und hervoragend eingebunden Alkohlgehlt.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Botted (with Mats). Orange colour with a small white head. Aroma is tropical fruits, toffee, some diacetyl and grass. Flavour is peach, herbs, toast and some fudgy tones. No diacetyl in flavour.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
0,33l bottle shared @ Rantakylä. Pours very dark brown with a low tan head. Aroma is sweet roasted malts with chocolate. Flavor is sweet roasted malts with chocolate, tonka, coffee, alcohol, hops. Pretty good.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Jacques - Buffalo Trace from Big Belly Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Almost black with thin head. Aroma and flavour have obvious vanilla bourbon sweet notes. Touch of brown sugar. Hit of boozy alcohol in the finish. Minus point for overcharging me.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Jacques from Big Belly Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6
Bottle at home shared with Laura. Red brown color, small off-white head. Smell and taste are malts, soft raisin notes, distant hints of sweet apple strangely enough or at least that's what it reminds me of. Odd. Not necessarily bad but odd nonetheless.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Æthelstan from Big Belly Brewing 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Imperial porter brewed with peated whisky malt, by a craft brewery in Breda in the southern Netherlands. Thick and densely moussy, yellowish beige, regular, bit uneven-bubbled but tightly structured head, slowly retreating over a misty dark chocolate brown beer with burgundy edges - blackish, but not quite black. Aroma of toasted hazelnuts, hard caramel, indeed a whiff of peated whisky but far less strong than I was expecting (and, frankly, hoping), dried prunes, sweet pipe tobacco, fudge, pecan nut pie, liquorice, burnt raisins, 'Koetjesreep', nutmeg, calvados, ripe pear, subtle hints of blackberry jam, caraway seed, cinnamon, cedarwood, green banana, cold Irish coffee, chewing gum. Sweetish onset, quite dense, raisins, dried prunes and a touch of pear but also a light umami note (porcini), lively carbonated in a fine-bubbled but still - for style - somewhat stingy way; full, rounded, oily mouthfeel, the mouth cavity filling with pecan-nutty, slightly hazelnutty, bitter-chocolatey and hard-caramelly malt layers, sweetish at first but quickly drying when a powdery, rooty roasted bitterness sets in, connecting well with the peated whisky malt aspect (bag of actual peat retronasally!) and a late but long and confident, leafy, rooty hop bitter component. Recurring liquorice as well, followed by heating gin- and cheap moonshine-like alcohol in the end, a tad wry on the root of the tongue, peppery as well and somehow just a bit too 'present' for my personal liking, scorching away the flavours in the finishing stage. Burnt pecan nuts, brown bread crust and indeed (actual) peat linger, but everything considered, I was expecting the peat - though very obvious - to be more prominent. Reasonably well-constructed imperial porter, but a bit less boozy, a bit more biscuity and a bit more peaty even could have made this creation more exciting. Decent and entertaining enough, but that astringent booziness really downgraded it for me. Much better has been done in this particular segment.
mart (27297) ticked Liquid Travel - Munich from Big Belly Brewing 2 years ago
Korralikult mõru ja humalane, kuiv, tsitrus, greip, mõruapelsin, nats nisu magusust ka. Hea, mõrudus on ikka selline, et kraabib keelt...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Aus der Flasche (bbe 30.04.2027) im 2022-11 getrunken. Dieses dunkelbraune Bier mit einer feinporigen Schaumkrone kommt mit einer kräftigen Kokosmakronen-Aroma daher. Dahinter finden sich malzige und leicht süßliche Aromen eines typischen Bieres im Quadrupel Bierstil. Der Alkoholgehalt ist perfekt eingebunden und der Name dieser Bier-Serie der Brauerei Liquid Desserts ist hier hervoragend gewählt. Tolles Bier!