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.

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.

Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is green apple, funk, caramel, roasted, taste is sweet toffee, chocolate, rum, raisin, tonka, more of the green apple.

Aus der Flasche (bbe 31.10.2025) im 2023-03 getrunken. Dieses Gewür-Stout wirkt sehr ausgewogen und hat eine spanmnendes Ginger Shortbread-Aroma. Der Körper wirkt sehr ausgewogen und der Alkoholgehalt ist perfekt eingebunden. Spannendes Stout!

Aus der Flasche im 2023-02 getrunken. Dieses Stout wirkt mit seinen hohen Alkoholgehalt fast schon leicht. Neben einem Schokoladen-Aroma fällt eine leichte Zimt-Note auf. Kein schlechtes Stout!