Brouwerij De Sater Karma Noir

Karma Noir

 

Brouwerij De Sater in Nazareth, East Flanders, Belgium 🇧🇪

Collab with: The Brew Society / Hugel
Porter - Imperial Regular
Score
7.04
ABV: 12.0% IBU: - Ticks: 3
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7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Fast gone cream-coloured head over carmosine-brown beer. Nutty nose, boozy, chocolate, and generally very sweet. Dark leaves, caramel, toffee. Sweet in the mouth but not that much as feared; ashes, and then maltwhisky, lightly smoked. A bit of eggnog, and caramel, of course. Lots of restsugars. Faint smokiness into the aftertaste. Very heavy, full MF, viscous, and quite sticky. Serious alcoholburn. Hello! A strong beer doesn't need to be syrupy-sweet! Thanks to Stef!

Tried from Bottle on 20 Sep 2021 at 09:11


7.4
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

De Sater collaborating with Hugel apparently, and brewing at Brew Society - resulting in a very strong imperial porter bottled in American style bombers, so I did not even think of this as a Belgian beer when I first spotted it at Latems Drankhuys. Mousy, medium thick, off-white, creamy head, opening, thinning and eventually dissolving under influence of the alcohol; blackish robe but not entirely so, a ruby red glow is visible throughout when held under bright light. Strong aroma of caramel sauce, Ersatz chocolate ('koetjesreep'), glazed beetroot, ripe blackberries, ruby port, calvados, fusel alcohol, walnut oil, old brown bread, cloves, gingerbread, bayleaf, old dry liquorice candy, dry clay, rain falling on hot rocks. Sweet onset, cooked elderberries, fresh figs and candied cherries, soft carb, very toffeeish and Ersatz chocolate-like malt core with a brown-bready edge; aspects of candied cherry, liquorice and clove accompany a boozy, warming, calvados-like alcohol glow. The caramelly backbone of the beer holds its own under this alcohol heat, but some fusel-like and even slightly medicinal effects are present as well; hop bitterness remains limited to a light herbal bitter note (the alcohol provides more bitterness than the hops here). Intense, very strong porter even if considered an 'imperial' one as is apparently the intention, but a bit weird and rough around the edges, with still some typically Belgian, quad-like aspects. Still modern, sleek and indeed porter-like enough to also remind me of e.g. De Molen's Tsarina Ezra, one of the prominent examples of imperial porter at least in Western Europe; an unusual one, took a while to get used to, but certainly worth a try. --- Beer merged from original tick of De Sater/The Brew Society/Hugel Karma noir on 28 Oct 2020 at 20:53 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: De Sater collaborating with Hugel apparently, and brewing at Brew Society - resulting in a very strong imperial porter bottled in American style bombers, so I did not even think of this as a Belgian beer when I first spotted it at Latems Drankhuys. Mousy, medium thick, off-white, creamy head, opening, thinning and eventually dissolving under influence of the alcohol; blackish robe but not entirely so, a ruby red glow is visible throughout when held under bright light. Strong aroma of caramel sauce, Ersatz chocolate ('koetjesreep'), glazed beetroot, ripe blackberries, ruby port, calvados, fusel alcohol, walnut oil, old brown bread, cloves, gingerbread, bayleaf, old dry liquorice candy, dry clay, rain falling on hot rocks. Sweet onset, cooked elderberries, fresh figs and candied cherries, soft carb, very toffeeish and Ersatz chocolate-like malt core with a brown-bready edge; aspects of candied cherry, liquorice and clove accompany a boozy, warming, calvados-like alcohol glow. The caramelly backbone of the beer holds its own under this alcohol heat, but some fusel-like and even slightly medicinal effects are present as well; hop bitterness remains limited to a light herbal bitter note (the alcohol provides more bitterness than the hops here). Intense, very strong porter even if considered an 'imperial' one as is apparently the intention, but a bit weird and rough around the edges, with still some typically Belgian, quad-like aspects. Still modern, sleek and indeed porter-like enough to also remind me of e.g. De Molen's Tsarina Ezra, one of the prominent examples of imperial porter at least in Western Europe; an unusual one, took a while to get used to, but certainly worth a try.

Tried on 15 Nov 2020 at 21:35


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

@Bles Bierhappening Dark brown to black, small head. Nose is dark malts, candi sugar, spices. Taste is dark malts, bit of roast, candi sugar, spices, a tad to sweet.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Oct 2019 at 20:01