6.8

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

Black beer, small head. Aroma is malt, roast, coffee. Taste is the same, bitter, roast, malt, coffee, not bad.

7

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

Bottle at online tasting of this brewery. Almost black color with medium beige head. Aroma of coffee, liquorice, chocolate, roasted malt. Taste is pretty the same. Good beer, but not Dunkler bock.

6.8

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

Bottle. Malty aroma and taste, strong roastyness, coffee, liquorice notes, hoppy notes, medium bitter. Medium body, malty roasty bitter finish. Ok.

7.4

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

Bottle from Geers. Hazy black with a stable, dark beige head. Aroma of toast, chestnut, roasted peanut, tobacco, espresso, burnt grass, charcoal, nutmeg. Taste has sweetish maltiness of chestnut, toast, vague prune perhaps, quickly becoming quite roasted, a bit herbal & spicy in the middle with a dry umami accent. Toasty, herbal hoppy finish, nutty, tobacco & coal impressions lingering. Medium body, slick-creamy texture, soft carbonation. Interesting brew, as it's trying so hard to just be a Stout.

7.1

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

Dark brown colour, beige foam. Sweet and malty with a lot of roasty bitterness. More a stout than a bock.

7

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

VandeStreek's contribution to the yearly Dutch 'bokbier' season, a black one for that matter - so probably not a Bock at all style-wise, but anyway. Longneck bottle from the Albert Heijn supermarket in Hulst in the southern Netherlands. Irregularly but tightly paper-lacing, mousy, deep cream-beige, slowly thinning but generally very well-retaining head on an indeed pitch black beer, only revealing its mahogany brown hue at the edges and in the end. Aroma of cold black coffee, bitter black chocolate bars, burnt toast and even charcoal, leather, toasted walnuts, subtler hints of parsley, beef stock cubes, salmiak, caramel, baking soda, tea, touch liquorish. Hardly any sweetness or estery fruitiness in the onset, very clean and immediately malty, with medium carb (or even quite soft for any kind of Bock) and a leathery, vaguely beef stock-ish umami aspect as well as a dim, underlying sourishness of roasted grains; supple, oily, medium thick mouthfeel, light nutty and subtly caramelly maltiness, bit resinous and quickly shifting to a strong roasted bitterness, bitter black coffee-like and even a bit ashy, with a salted liquorish-like aspect lingering at the back along with a bitter tea-ish, herbal hop bitterness. Ends roasty-malty, oily and bitter with a slight minerally touch. Very clearly - as expected - this has nothing to do with the Dutch 'herfstbok' tradition even if it is marketed as one; this is a simple, supple, straightforward and somewhat thinnish but otherwise perfectly fine dry stout. Appreciating the irony in producing a black Bock which is actually a dry stout, I will not deduct points for not being true to style in this case... But then, even as a dry stout, VandeStreek has performed better in many other styles, I think.

5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Black color. caramelly aroma with hints of chichory. malty sweetish, roasty flavor with chichory and milk. Caramel. Disappointing.

6.8

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

Small beige head, reasonbly stable over red-highlighted deepbrown beer. Dried roasted coffee, with a lot of molasses, sweet, "Haagse HopjesBitterish, asy, dry flavour cigarettes, background however has again some molasses. Bit sharpish, even sourish lacing. Warming up, the molasses' sweetness builds up. Medium bodied, even when it gives the impression of being very viscous, rich. Good carbonation. In the end it IS sweet, despite the dry, near ashy beginning.

7.2

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

Bottle. Color: Very dark ruby, beige head. Aroma: Dark malt, coffee hints, caramel. Taste: Dark malt, roasted, caramel, milk chocolate. Light hints of ash. Medium body, below average carbonation. Moderate sweet and moderate hoppy bitterness. Nice dark bock.

8

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