Chinelle Black
Brasserie de Franchimont in Franchimont, Namur, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Dry Regular|
Score
6.77
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Alengrin (10989) reviewed Chinelle Black from Brasserie de Franchimont 3 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Literally the darkest one in the Chinelle series, but weirdly not advertised as a porter or a stout, just a ‘black beer’, as if colour in beer has anything to do with flavour… Anyway, thanks to my girlfriend for the bottle! Very thick and foamy, creamy and dense, pillowy, pale off-yellow beige head, very slowly dissipating over a near-clear, very dark chocolate brown beer, approaching black but with clear mahogany hue, turning misty with sediment. Aroma initially dominated by carbon dioxide but this fades very quickly, making room for impressions of black (and non-sweet) chocolate, black toast, caramel, coffee grounds, toasted hazelnuts, leather, dried sage, red apple, liquorice indeed (actually used here apparently, but not too overpowering), dry clay, bayleaf, clove, dried fig, old raisin. Very fizzy onset, harshly stinging carbonation but clean and focused in its flavour, first bringing restrained fruity effects of fig, red apple and dried blueberries, sweetish with a mild sourish touch; rounded, slick body, marred a bit by this overcarbonation effect initially. Smooth-edged hard-caramelly, brown-bready and thinly chocolatey maltiness, bittersweet with the caramelly sweetness overruling the toasted bitterness, but a coffee-like roasted effect certainly unfolds in the finish, albeit in a gentle, elegant manner. Mild leafy hop bitter notes along with a clove-like phenolic spiciness and a clear but luckily nowhere too dominant presence of the added liquorice join in a medium long, nutty-roasty, pleasant finish. English brown porter-like beer with ‘Belgian’ style overcarbonation, I’d say – but no Belgian yeastiness here, so remaining very sleek, Anglo-Saxon and clean; very pleasant and well executed, in all. --- Beer merged from original tick of Franchimont Chinelle Black on 15 Oct 2020 at 07:17 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5. Original review text: Literally the darkest one in the Chinelle series, but weirdly not advertised as a porter or a stout, just a ‘black beer’, as if colour in beer has anything to do with flavour… Anyway, thanks to my girlfriend for the bottle! Very thick and foamy, creamy and dense, pillowy, pale off-yellow beige head, very slowly dissipating over a near-clear, very dark chocolate brown beer, approaching black but with clear mahogany hue, turning misty with sediment. Aroma initially dominated by carbon dioxide but this fades very quickly, making room for impressions of black (and non-sweet) chocolate, black toast, caramel, coffee grounds, toasted hazelnuts, leather, dried sage, red apple, liquorice indeed (actually used here apparently, but not too overpowering), dry clay, bayleaf, clove, dried fig, old raisin. Very fizzy onset, harshly stinging carbonation but clean and focused in its flavour, first bringing restrained fruity effects of fig, red apple and dried blueberries, sweetish with a mild sourish touch; rounded, slick body, marred a bit by this overcarbonation effect initially. Smooth-edged hard-caramelly, brown-bready and thinly chocolatey maltiness, bittersweet with the caramelly sweetness overruling the toasted bitterness, but a coffee-like roasted effect certainly unfolds in the finish, albeit in a gentle, elegant manner. Mild leafy hop bitter notes along with a clove-like phenolic spiciness and a clear but luckily nowhere too dominant presence of the added liquorice join in a medium long, nutty-roasty, pleasant finish. English brown porter-like beer with ‘Belgian’ style overcarbonation, I’d say – but no Belgian yeastiness here, so remaining very sleek, Anglo-Saxon and clean; very pleasant and well executed, in all.
Rubin77 (9041) reviewed Chinelle Black from Brasserie de Franchimont 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
33cl bottle from 5th beer festival Carrément Bières in l’Abbaye de Villers-la-Ville in Belgium. F: huge, tanned, good retention with slow manageable gusher. C: black, opaque. A: dark malts, chocolate, coffee, tobacco, cocoa, dark dried fruits. T: rich dark malty, bit coffee, dark chocolate, caramel, bit earthy, dry on the palate, bit spicy, higher carbonation bit disturbing, ok no real flaws here but nothing special.