Panil Black Oak

Brewed by Panil Birra Artigianale - Birrificio Torrechiara
Style: Stout
Torrechiara-Parma, Italy

Bottled.A pitch black beer with sediment of yeast floating around under a lazing tan head. The aroma is sweet with notes of roasted matl as well as lighter notes of chocolate and coffee. The flavor issweet with notes of roasted malt, vegetables, earth, celery, and wood. Huge thanks to yespr for sharing.

(Bottle 75 cl) Courtesy of yespr. Pours an almost clear rough off-white head. Weird aroma of vegetables and fustiness. Medium body yet quite watery. Underlying vegetable notes and a dry and bitter finish. Really unpleasant. 290508

Bottle#27: 75 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a redish glare and a lacing white head. Earthy towards vegetable aroma. Thin mouthfeel. Flavour is mild watery and mild roasted malt. Ends vague and some watery acidic roasted note. Bland and boring, mouldy, earthy and rotten wood. I was looking forward to this anticipating a beer that couldn’t be that bad - it was worse :(

Bottle 75cl @ [ Mafioso Blind Tasting @ yespr, Bottle #27.]
Unclear with medium size particles a dark amber brown color with a average, frothy, good lancing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, damp-stained, cardboard, fallen apple, vegy - celery. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (300508)

Bottle, 4%. Slightly sour, woody, old paper aroma. Almost black colour. Small light brown head. The flavour starts off mouldy. Has old paper flavour, distinctly 40s newspaper from the attic. The oak barrels giving this mouldy flavour? Quite watery too. Why so thin? The late finish is OK with some roast barley bitterness. Perhaps at 6 or 8% ABV it would be a good beer.

Bottle #27 at yesprs mafioso blind tasting. Hazy orange brown coloured with floaties and a medium sized off white ehad. Murky aroma of mould and fruits. Murky flavour of mould, rotten wood and spices. Spicy finish. Disgusting.

2008-05-30, blind tasting at Yespr’s
Dark brown color. Weird aroma, some caramel and moldy apple skins. Horrible flavor, dry, maybe caramel, dirty water, strong dirty bitterness.

[Italian Blind tasting @ yespr, Bottle 27#] Hazy brown with floaties with medium white head. Moldy aroma with vegy notes. Rotten flavor with celary notes. Clearly infected.