Struise Cuvée Delphine

Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Imperial Stout
Oostvleteren, Belgium

@ a tasting, thanks DSG for sharing this one, pours black with a nice beige head, aroma of chocolate, bret and acids, roasted flavors, chocolate, dry fruit sweetness, bret, with oaky aftertaste, full bodied. Nice and interesting

On draught at pre-Zythos bash, Alvinne, March 2009. Very dark. Lots of chewy fruit in the aroma and the flavour. Lovely licorice in the flavour too. Some bitter cocoa and subtle woody vinous notes. But the plummy fruit is in the driving seat. Alcohol is warming but not too boozy. Spectacular stuff. I was enjoying it so much I nearly forgot to make any notes.

At a tasting, many thanks DSG , dark brown bubbly head, very dark brown almost completly opaque, funky lambicy nose with vinegar and green apples, also cocoa and some cherries coming in, flavours of charred wood and potatos and an artificial sweetness. not balanced and just a little diluted, maybe infected.

Bottle: i think it was a little infected, sourness in the nose, some brett, wet wood, reminds me of lambic, cocca, cocca butter, milk chocolate, honey, charcoal, gummy bears candy, i’m sure it could have been better.

Even more black than Black Albert. Aroma is complex, coffee, chocolate, hops caramel and bourbon whisky. Taste is a little more sweet than Black Albert, Vanille, dark sugars, coffee, chocolate and art. Carlos and Urbain, Merci for letting me taste the most rare beer and for telling me the story behind the colourful label.

Intens black in colour with fluffy fine brown head on top. Aroma is fantastc, its lots of coffee, chocolate, rich malts, honey, bourbon and carameized and roasted barley. Taste is super soft and incredible in balans. Aftertaste is smooth, rich, lots of soft black mocha and dark Berlgian chocolats going on in here. It end with a nice bite of refreshinh hops. What a fantastic beer

Bottled at 1st Borefts Beer Festival, Bodegraven. Opaque black appearance. Roasted malts and fruit in aroma, vanilla. Flavour has obvious sour notes, fruit, roasted malts, bourbon, very complex, yet smooth. I’m not a big fan of Black Albert, but this one is really nice.

bottle. impenetrable black body with a large-bubbled, fast-growing brown head, lasting retention but it’s 4 inches of foam on top of an inch of beer. need to figure out the bottle conditioning, fellas. nose is cream, mint chocolate ice cream, bit of spearmint and butter yeast, strange. settles out with more chocolate malt and roast when oxidized and warmed but it’s still tough to get over. thick up front but quickly fizzles and evaporates on the palate. sand, stale toast crumbs, mild chocolate and cream... infection or cap taint is picked up, mild influence on the flavor but the body is killed... that or the bottle conditioning is just out of control and messy. boozy aftertaste, belgian yeast is evident, but overall it suffers from poor conditioning.