De Dolle Extra Export Stout

Brewed by De Dolle Brouwers
Style: Foreign Stout
Diksmuide, Belgium

Dark chocolate nose, roasted coffee and rich malt, almost black, pours a huge cappuccino head.Bitter taste of coffee, dark chocolate and fine malt. Light bodied, sour/sweet, bitter. Great!

Date: 05/31/2005
Mode: Bottle Conditioned
Source: Party Pac, IN

pours black with a huge tan head, sweet malt aroma with nice licorice and a hint of roasted malt, nice big body, rich sweet malt flavor, touch of ripe fruity character,

Aroma: 9/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Score: *4
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33 cl bottle shared with Ben (thanks), served cool in a Maudite fishbowl. AU 25/07

App.: Deep brown-black, clear(??), fleeting tan head. Aroma: Chocolate and dark dried fruits smothered in tangy organic acids, slightly woody and vinous; a little coffee; a touch of funk/cheese. Palate: Full body and slightly sharp effervescence. Flav.: Dark dried fruits, some wood, a bit bright; acids and inky dark malts linger, a bit of alcohol burn at the front of the mouth.

Not a fan of combining Belgian funk/tang with stout qualities.

Bottle courtesy Jmichael. Pours a dense tan head. That’s all. This is either the best or worst head you’ll ever get, depending on your point of view. The head sits there mocking me, taunting me with it’s non-drinkability as I wait for a layer of beer to slowly form beneath it. The beer is opaque black/brown that admits a bit of light around the edges. Nutty chocolate aroma - with something I can’t identify - almost metallic. Lightly sour coffee taste with some licorice and an espresso-dry finish. This is an unusual example of the style, or maybe it’s beginning to go bad?

0.33 l bottle. Black color with tan head. Extremely foamy. Mainly roasted malt in the aroma along with some phenols. Roasted, sweet and sour flavor with charcoal. Acidic finish. The acidity, sweetness and roastedness is not in balance.

Black color with a monstrous and slowly-dissipating tan head. Aroma a bit weak but smells of coffee and fruits with a hint of dark chocolate. Very lively mouthfeel as this is extremely highly-carbonated. Flavor predominantly sour fruits like grape skins and currants with only a slight coffee bitterness in the finish. Very interesting stout.

poured into tulip. pours a dark loose pour with hight fizzy head that slowly dissipates and sticks, took a cuple of pour and waits to get the full bottle. sweet smooth light malt aroma with a citruss hop presence. sweet front almost a sour tone, some hop presence an a smoky background to sweet mild finish. carbonation presence on palate, slight hoppy citruss sour tone, lots of complexity and background, more sweet than smoky, yeast presence, and dry finish to aftertaste, smokiness arrives in the aftertaste, as it warms yeast presents itself.. good stuff.

Black. Begie head. Aroma brings a lot of spices. Flavo ris coffee, burnt malt, raisins and some chocolate. Not my best stout...