BABB Teobroma

Yuck, this does not deserve accolades for its bottling surviving skills. A slick-looking, almost black beer wearing a fine tan crown. Immediately repelling nose with cherry notes, but dominated by vinegar, dead leaves, jolly rancher candies. Very sweet on the palate yet clearly infected. The chocolate appears as but a powdery cocoa notion, vague and harmless, annihilated by the acidity. Light-medium bodied, loose texture.

In short: An unpleasant fruity/vinegary black beer
How: Montreal’s Flaveurs, Bières and Caprice Festival 2007.
The look: Black body with almost no head
In long: Nose is somewhat balsamic/wine vinegary. Body is lifeless. Sweet multi-red-fruits breakfast jam. No roastiness any basic elements usually found in a stout flavour spectrum. BADD Teobroma.

My Bottom Line:
Red wine vinegar leaks onto the cocoa beans of this fruity, tart, and anemic Imperial Stout.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A ring of foam circles the blackness.
-Nascent pickles mar the chocolatey efforts.
-Candied cherries are found within; they must be fun when the cocoa shines (in better conditions).
-The tart, vinous finish is not what I want after a frail roasty maltiness.
-I guess this bottled number is a far cry from what the kegged version is; or, at the very least, it cannot handle overseas transport.

Bottle; best before luglio 2008.

Draught at "Italia Beer Festival 2007" - Brescia.
Intense brown/black color, much impenetrable one. Compact and adherent head of cappuccino color. Much alcoholic aroma with pleasant notes of coffee, cacao, roast malt and burned wood. Alcoholic and overbearing homogenous taste; much solid one with rumors of liqueur and liquorice. Long, bitter and balsamic end.

Hand pulled at Bi-Du Beer Fest 2007, courtesy of Beppe
Black color. Delicate aroma, roasted malt, a bit cheesy. Good body strength, good velvety mouthfeel, some sweetness, but elegant feeling, good mix of roasted malt, caramel, chocolate. Excellent.