Black with a lasting tan head. Aroma of chocolate and licorice, oak and cognac. Dry and roasted flavour with coffee and dark chocolate, with an ashy note. Roasted bitterness and a bit of hops in the finish

Bottle, bought @ Moeder Lambic, St. Gilles.
Pours completely black with a nice, staying, creamy, beige head. Aroma has definite cognac notes, chocolate, mild roasted malts, nuts and mild oak. Medium carbonation, nice dry and creamy if somewhat light mouthfeel. Flavour has chocolate, cocoa, oaky dryness, nuts and lots of coffee. Soft, velvety and delicious with a long, dry and bitter finish.

Bottle 750ml.

[ Bottle # 8/300 ]. Clear dark black colour with a large, frothy to creamy, excellent lacing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, light to moderate chocolate, smoke, oak - peat. Flavour is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, wood - oak, chocolate, dark roasted, sweet cognac. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic. IMO. very good balanced and very good .. well done Christoph & Jean. [20120915]
8-4-8-4-17

Bottle 750ml. @ Chez Moeder Lambic Fontainas, Place Fontainas 8, Brussels, Belgium 1000.

Clear dark black colour with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good to excellent lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, moderate hoppy, light wood. Flavour is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, chocolate, wood, salty licorice, sweet cognac. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Again, very good and balanced .. [20121005]
8-4-9-4-17

37.5 cl Bottle # 031: bought at the Alvinne-Pre Zythos Fest a couple of years back (4 Euros) and I’ve been saving it for the last day of earth (tomorrow at 12.12 I am told). Hope the beer hits the spot. Poured slowly into a Westmalle chalice @ home on 20 Dec 2012. Looks impressive in the glass: creamy feel to the tanned head and a body that has a brown base with a dull red hue to it. The nose is chocolate with attitude: as is the taste, the barrel obviously gave the beer a slightly wine/port/cognac flavour but never having had an un-barrel aged ’Numero 2’ I can’t say how much it has influenced the taste. I hope this isn’t my last beer on earth: but if it is or was then at least I can tell everyone in the afterworld I’ve had a fine beer just before the earth fell apart!

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice creamy head with excellent duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, fruits, chocolate, coffee, wood and hops. Dry finish.

Bottle #8 @ FOneFan. Black with medium beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee,wood and caramel. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, medium sweet, oak, cognac, little vinous and a little bitter.

Bottle @ Really late Summer Tasting Ulfborg, 2012. Bottle #8 /300. Pours nearly black with a creamy beige head. Nose is oak, cognac, dark fruit, vague roast and caramel. Flavor is wood, ashes, vague roast and caramel. Full bodied. Alcohol well hidden. Very enjoyable without being overly complex.

Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate and wood. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and roasted moderate bitter. 150912

Thanks to my French friends for this one! Brought Look: the beer pours a dark brown color with a small head. Smell: Full of roasted malts, dark chocolate, typical Belgium yeast and some wooden oak tones. Taste: Dark and bitter chocolate malts, with oak in the bitter aftertaste. Only very slight cognac flavor are present when the beer warms up Mouthfeel: medium-thin body with medium carbonation Overall: A nice beer. Deep in my heart, I expected more though. A bit too single dimensional IMO, but still enjoyable. I would never turn one down

Bottle at Chez Moeder Lambic Fontainas. Pours a dark brown colour with a thick tan head. A fantastic aroma of dark chocolate and bitter cocoa with grassy hops also. Similar flavours with moderate carbonation and bitterness. The cognac and oak notes linger very nicely with a great creamy mouth-feel. This is brilliant!