Score
8.47
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Bottle. Pours black with a thin light brown edge. Aromas of sweet dark fruits, raisins, licorice, some coffee beans, vanilla, caramel candy, toffee. Taste is pretty licorice up front, lots of dry oaky notes, toffee, sweet dark fruits, some chocolate and coffee notes.
Bottle, at RB bottle share, 2007. Pours pitch black. Chocolate, soy, nutty, plum, dark chocolate, toffee. Full body. Excellent.
2014 vintage, shared with Pilsnertest. Thanks a log Craig! Thick, black, with beige head. Loads of sweet liquorice and chocolate backed up by some solid malty rye bread. Some dark fruits lingering with molasses and a small touch of soy sauce. Phenomenal beer!
Thanks JC. 2012 version. Lovely aroma, bit meaty, bit of smoke, treacle. Great taste, rich, bit of caramel, some kind of marker pen, meaty too, shiitake? Very nice.
2006 bottle from Nightfall. Thanks!," Almost black and opague. Malt, salt and licorice in the aroma. Malty sweet flavor with some roast, licorice, hints of laurel and oak and raisin. Powerful, yet a silky smotth mouthfeel. Very good!",
Bottle - pours brownish - n/t oak, old caramel/dark chocolate/light bitterness - 4.4
0,275l bottle at home shared with Sander. Vintage 2015. black color, no head. smells of oak, soy sauce, marzipan, nutty, earthy, nice smell, bit heavy on the soy sauce. full body, no carbonation, oily mouthfeel. tastes of oak, wood, bit peaty, soy sauce, marzipan, nutty, molasses. finishes lightly sweet with some roast and notes of oak, molasses and some soy saucish notes, some figs. pretty nice one, not overly special, quite heavy (but not boozy) and quite oily. not super complex, oak is rather noticeable.
Bought at the brewery
Bottle at cgarvieuk's, vintage 2015 vs vintage 2009. Pours black. Aroma is toffee, caramel, barrel, nuts, coffee. Much more oak in the younger one. Body is heavy, strong but not super boozy, barrel, little carbonated sourness, intense, but mostly diabetes. Rich for sure, but also not as gracefully balanced as the GKH 2009 I just had. Still a very good beer, of course. Older gets better, but the flatness ruins some of the experience. Maybe there is a sweet spot in between?
Split off as a separate vintage entry from my combined rating on ratebeer:
7/VII/18 - 275ml bottle @ JefVerstraete's place - BB: 28/I/27, 2015 vintage (2018-xxx) A huge thanks to JefVerstraete for sharing this delicacy!
Ar: 9, Ap: 4, T: 10, P: 3, O: 17, Total: 4.3/5
Clear dark brown beer, small creamy brown head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: lots of chocolate, malty, bit of coffee, cocoa powder. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: bit sour, sweet, malty, slightly oxidized, soft bitterness, lots of chocolate. Aftertaste: chocolaty and malty, alcohol, bit oxidized, sugary, soft roast, really nice stuff!