Cassadura
Brasserie Atrium in Marche-en-Famenne, Luxembourg, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Imperial Special|
Score
7.34
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The first one is an unrefined Belgian beet sugar and the second one is an unrefined brown Brazilian cane sugar representing our beloved mix.
An extreme beer as we love! A complex, thick and creamy 15% imperial stout with a beautiful brown head. Notes of cooked candy followed by delicate dark fruits esters, caramels, complex malty presence and roasted notes.
oh6gdx (43583) reviewed Cassadura from Brasserie Atrium 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Sample (thanks fonefan!). Black colour, pretty much no head. Aroma is nutty, sweaty socks, mild spices and some yeast. Flavour is coconut, some alcohol, spices, some dried fruits and just super sweet. Strange impy in my books. No red line to keep it in line.
Kraddel (15451) reviewed Cassadura from Brasserie Atrium 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a nearly black, very darkened brown. Small creamwhite head. Scent is soft, gentle, smooth - but nog light, obviously. it is however not the most intense nose. Gives away some of the dark sugar, a tad caramel, roasty hints (way less than the average Imperial Stout ). Bit Belgian yeast like - I get the quad idea in this stout. Taste is robust and intense, not overly thick, but certainly thick. sweet, but not over the top. Tha 15 % gives it some booze, for me personally to much though , as it overpowers the beer itself - leaving some sweetness and maltyness, but in the amped up style of heavy-beers-for-the-sake-of-being-heavy (Kasteelbier, to name one) This one certainly has a lot more going on, but it's burried beneath the too high alcohol content - the beer isn't very balanced by that, and honestly this feels more like a gimmick / get drunk fast beer, than it being 15 % cause thats what the beer needs.
tderoeck (20818) reviewed Cassadura from Brasserie Atrium 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
31/XII/21 - 33cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ home, BB: XII/2025, L043/20 (2021-1585)
Clear purple to red brown beer, small creamy beige head, little stable, non adhesive. Aroma: lots of banana, yeast, caramel, bit spicy, malty touch. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet start, caramel, pretty bitter, little roasted, cocoa powder. Aftertaste: sugary, some yeast, alcohol, caramel, some ripe banana, gentle roast, bit sourish.
Bierridder (3691) ticked Cassadura from Brasserie Atrium 2 years ago
omhper (39870) reviewed Cassadura from Brasserie Atrium 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sample, thanks fonefan! Black, no head. Aroam of cane sugar, coffee and licorice. Very sweet with full body and rounded mouthfeel. Saké-like salmiak, marzipan and cane sugar. Long bitter finish with hidden alcohol. Even manages to stay elegant despite the intensity. Impressive!
nathanvc (5932) reviewed Cassadura from Brasserie Atrium 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from Geers. Hazy dark brown-black, thin, beige head. Aroma of candi sugar, burnt caramel, espresso, date, raisin, pear, fudge, dark honey, nougat, liqueur. Taste has sweet candied date, raisin & pear, quite sugary, drenched in toffee & molasses maltiness; bit toasty, even a bit nutty in the middle, next to a hint of coffee & herbal tea. Earthy hoppy finish, sweetened again by burnt sugar, sugared coffee and warming brown rum-like alcohol. Full body, oily-syrupy texture, average carbonation. More Quad than Stout and rather heavy on the alcohol but a fine creation nonetheless.
Alengrin (10989) reviewed Cassadura from Brasserie Atrium 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Superstrong ‘pastry stout’ with different kinds of sugar, one Belgian (beetroot sugar or cassonade) and the other Brazilian (raw cane sugar or rapadura), stressing the link this brewery has with Brazil (the brewer met his wife there – and this wife, the lovely Paula Yunes, is actually a Brazilian zythologist). Thin and immediately open, pale greyish beige, unstable head, quickly reduced to a waferthin, interrupted ring under influence of the alcohol; dark chocolate brown robe, hazy with dots of yeast here and there and a ruby red hue, letting quite some light pass through for a stout – more looking like a quadrupel, in fact. Aroma of caramel sauce, exotic sugars indeed, treacle, ‘kletskoppen’, cane syrup, ‘boerenjongens’, cola, hints of brown bread crust, almond, tiramisu, wet toast, old nougat, tea. Sweet onset, sticky raisins and candied figs, dark sugars obvious enough though not necessarily distinguishable from one another, finely tingling fizz, very full and smooth, ‘viscous’ body with the sugars sticking to the throat a bit; Belgian chocolate-, caramel candy- and toffee-like middle with aspects of nougat and treacle, obviously lots of residual brown sugariness with some spiciness (vanilla, cinnamon, spiced tea, but all faint) and a burnt sugar effect, heated by port- and rum-like alcohol. Very desserty, overpowering beer, too sweet and boozy for me personally and both visually and structurally more an extra strong and extra sweet quad than a true pastry stout, but the Brazilian rapadura, an ingredient you do not see here every day, is a very interesting touch and does its job of adding a sweet exotic element in both nose and mouth. Interesting experiment, but not a beer I could have any day.
Rubin77 (9041) reviewed Cassadura from Brasserie Atrium 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
33cl bottle (BBF: 12/2025) from Drink Factory in Mons. F: no real, some tan bubbles. C: black, opaque. A: mellow dark fruits, bit coffee, dark caramel, dark chocolate, brown sugar, dried plums, raisins, bit vinous. T: really full malty base, light coffee liquor, dark dried fruits, brown sugar, molasses, chocolate, caramel, reminds me some de Struise beers, almost no carbonation, very nice sipper, fully enjoyed.
Basementonline (9929) ticked Cassadura from Brasserie Atrium 3 years ago
Sebletitje (14835) reviewed Cassadura from Brasserie Atrium 3 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Bouteille 33cl pour mon anniversaire, merci Vincent et Isabelle.
BB 12/2025, lot# L043/2020.
Bizarrement je m'attendais à une bière noire de noire, mais là , couleur acajou plutôt claire - on dirait en référence couleur de sucre cassonade, col épais crémeux café au lait.
Arôme offre un nez classique belge, on est bien dans une approche de quad et l'ajout de ces deux sucres n'est pas surfait quoique ayant un peu contribuer à pousser cette bière à 15%?
Retrouve des effluves de fruits noirs et secs - raisin, pruneaux,
Palais est de suite marqué par le booze avec en retrait un apport doux sucré qui nous transporte entre le sucre cassonade d'une crêpe d'après-midi et un côté caramélisé, sucre de canne. Note chocolatée, épais en bouche, collant aux lèvres après qcq temps. Fruits confits cerise, pruneaux, raisins et figues avec une petite pointe anisée en fin de bouche. Amertume reste bien présente et apporte une bonne balance face à la base très maltée - et sucrée.
Pas mauvaise, le contrat est respecté, je craignais le pire avec l'annonce des sucres, c’est bien une bonne quad belge - qui se boit à t° de cave et de préférence partagée en 2 ou 3. Pour ma part, je n'ai pas pu finir cela seul. Franchement pour des bières aussi imposantes, il faudrait franchement changer de format et passer en 18cl. A 10% le score aurait été plus haut.