Struise Black Jack

Brewed by De Struise Brouwers
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Oostvleteren, Belgium

Bottled. An unclear brown beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of spices, caramel, and brown sugar. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of over ripe fruits as well as medium notes of caramel and spices, leading to a dry spicy finish. Thanks yespr for sharing.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours a hazy and opaque dark brown with an orange hue and a small beige head. Sweet aroma of dried fruits and hard roasted malts. Full-bodied, sweetish hard roasted malt, dried fruit and a discreet bitterness. Has a strange underlying tartness that gives a bit of a tang. 090209

LCRBM08, courtesy of Carlo and Urbain. 33 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Aroma is mild spiced and mild roasted and a full nose of chocolate malty notes. Flavour is smooth chocolate and roasted malty with a mild residual sweetness. Smooth roasted and chocolate finish with a light vanilla note.

Bottled at Belgobaren, Stockholm. Opaque black with dense creamy beige head. Aroma of licorice and spruce needles with some vinous tartness. Chocolatey and lightly oaky with lemon, winegums and coffee. Feels way more Belgian than porterish with it’s vinous yeasty esters and restrained roastiness. Also the spritzy, lively mouthfeel and the pine needle bitterness points me in the same direction. In this beer I like the mouthfeel and drinkability better than the actual flavour.

<b>Bottle 33cl.</b>
Clear dark brown - black color with a average to large, frothy, good, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, berry, raisin, prune, wood. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet, light acidic, and moderate to heavy bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20081011]

Bottle, 7% at LCRBM08. Slightly sour aroma. Black colour, small brown head. Thin mouthfeel, but OK syrupy. The flavour is roasted with some vanilla, fruity. Some sour graininess in the finish that I do not enjoy much. 6 3 6 3 13

Cask at Alvinne pre-ZBF09. Citric roasted aroma. Almost black colour, seems slightly hazy. The flavour is slightly sweet and fruity with some yeast and a little dry liquorice. Tannic feel in the finish. 6 3 6 3 12

Bottled. Quite dark amber colour, medium beige head. Aroma is quite alcoholic, some liquorice, some quite sweetish syupry stuff. Flavour is liquorice, alcoohol, sugar and some mild fruity and sweet wooden notes.

Bottle. Dark brown (almost black) coloured with a medium sized beige head. Roasted aroma of dried fruits and liquorice with notes of pine needles. Roasted flavour of berries, liquorice, chocolate and dried fruits. Dry roasted finish.