8.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Pours black, no real head. Scent is intense, bourbon, roast, full, bit boozy. Taste is smooth, intense, roasty, vanilla, smooth bourbon and oak. Chocolate. SLightly green, herbaceous character (bell pepper comes to mind). Absolutely lovely !

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BXLbeerfest 2022

7.8

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

Blend of leftover barrel aged imperial stouts, barleywines and wheat wines by Abraxas – it would be a shame to throw them away I guess, and this practice is not uncommon (compare with The Bruery’s Mélange series, for instance). Yellow-beige, creamy, dense and stable but opening ring of foam on a jet black beer. Aroma of chocolate sauce, blackberry coulis, brown honey, brandy, bourbon, cappuccino, wet leather, caramel, vanilla-scenting oak wood, dried prunes, cinnamon, soy sauce, treacle. Densely sweet, ‘candied’ onset, candied dates and plums with a light umami edge (soy sauce); thick oily body, soft carb, layers of toffee-, walnut-, chocolate- and molasses-like maltiness, bittersweet, intense and mouth-filling, adorned with strong vanilla-ish oak wood and drying tannins, but maintaining its luscious oily bittersweetness till the end. Hints of bayleaf, cinnamon and old tawny port further grace a warming, brandy-tinged, chocolatey and nutty finish. Indeed: it would have been a shame not to create this blend from leftovers, this is as complex and intense as barrel aged top fermenting gets – Bruery’s Mélange series springs to mind all over again.

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

At BXL. Massive bourbon, chocolate, light boozy, warming maple and vanilla booze. Quite sweet, heavy body but not as heavy as Maman. Good.

7.5

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

Taster at BXLBeerfest. Black color, small coffee colored head. smells whisky, bourbon, marzipan, nutty, vanilla. Nice to very nice smell. Full body, no carbonation. tastes oily, vanilla, wood, whisky, molasses, nutty, fudgy. Finishes sweet with notes of vanilla, bourbon and molasses. Nice one, rather sweet

8, 7.5, 8, 7, 7.