De Dolle Extra Export Stout

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

Sweet, malty, chocolate aroma. Nice thick appearance with foamy head. A nice bitter taste, with notes of chocolate and licorice. A near full feel on the palate, but not full. If I was into the stouts, I think this beer would be tops. Really attacks the palate with the various textures and flavors. But I do not love the chocolate, coffee, licorice type beers.

Bottle. Poured black with thick foamy head, rather too much foam actually. Powerful aroma of milk, coffee, leather and a strong roastiness. Full flavour, coffee, cocoa and roast. Lasting milky and tart finish.

Pours like a coke, with a lingering head. Aroma is fruity, cola, leather, earth. Flavor is earthy, dust, roasted malt, dark fruitiness. Finishes very nicely, with roasty stout, fruit and sourness converging into an awesome ending. Very good.

Pours deep black with cocoa head. Huge aroma in my Sniffer of cocoa and deep roasted malt. Flavor has some definite tang but come nice roastiness as well.

Almost black with an enormous beige and rocky head that settles in an uneven fashion and leaves lots of lacings. A very interesting smell. Roasted malts are prominent but not dominating. Lots of yeast, planting soil, slightly tart fruits and a strange spicy notes. A note or iron and perhaps just a faint hint of funk. The taste is rather different for a stout. Sweet roasted malts, a note of burnt coffee and tannins, and a mild fruity tartness dominate. Notes of earth, yeast, wood, spices and sweet dark fruits. The finish is bitter with a complementing tartness, a prominent note of iron, and wood. I really like this. Medium to full body and lively carbonation. Tart stouts can be something of a hit or miss, and this one really hits the mark. It has a good balance between roasted sweetness and fruity tartness and it’s an interesting encounter from start to finish. Lots of character and a complex composition. Serving type: bottle (Copy of old Beer Advocate review)

Bottle via trade with probstk. Nice grape aromas quite winey, some malty sweetness, light coffee, even mushrooms; very complex!. Quite winey taste, very sour for a stout, lots of grapes with a nice chocolate/espresso bitter finale. The palate is a little weak; quite water and highly carbonated. Very unique.

Pitch black with a huge, very fine, very frothy, tan head. Aroma: chocolate, dark fruit, roasted malts, caramel. On the sweet side. Like an abt but more roasty. Flavor: roasty and stout-like, wood, bitter chocolate, coffee, caramel, plus a rather Belgian fruitiness. Rather light and thin in body; heavily carbonated too. Very flavorful and quite complex. Woody, roasted finish. Good stout, though I like their Belgian styles better.

12 oz. bottle from Greens. Pours very dark and cloudy with a bubbly tan head. Almost opaque but not nearly as thick as your average American or British stout. More funk and earthiness in the nose than I’m used to in a stout. I find this pretty intriguing when complimented by some of the more traditional stout aromas: roasted malts, coffee, dark chocolate, even some hazelnut. The flavor and palate is an absolutely wonderful union of all these aspects. Maybe the best foreign stout I’ve had.