Dupont Monks Stout

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Black with decent lacing brown foam head. Aroma is muffled, but coffee is present. Taste is bitter coffee, some chocolate. Nice bitter aftertaste. (Brussels 201405)

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Good looking beer with a long lasting foamy tan head that laces the glass. Unfortunately the rest of the beer does not match the appearance. Weak stout characteristics with a thin mouthfeel. Sourish and yeasty, quite odd.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Single from the LCBO, with a best before date of 08/2014. Pours a dark brown colour with ruby highlights, showing lots of tiny particles floating around. Frothy beige head, fizzing away slowly, with foamy lace sticking around. Belgian Ale yeast aromas, with mild spicy hops and notes of dark fruits. Oh wow ! What a weird taste. Seems to be all over the place, except in the stout world. Some sourness (but does not seem infected), some yeast, a little tart, some fruits and to save this, watery roasted malts and hints of coffee in the end. Not one I would have again.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

330ml bottle
5.2% ABV
King/Spadina LCBO Outlet (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
May 1, 2013
Part of the Spring 2013 LCBO Dupont feature. The beer pours a translucent reddish-brown (when held to light) and a creamy brown head that quickly dissipated into a ring. Aroma is roasted malt, yeast, and burnt wood. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, but thin for a stout and carbonation is average. Flavour is tart and funky with some roasted malty notes, yeast, and maybe watered down coffee. A stout in name only. In the overall pantheon of beers, this is above average. In the overall pantheon of stouts, this is below average.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

330ml bottle: puts a dark ale with ruby highlights in the tulip -1 finger cap with fair retention. Aroma is promising - roasty with a hint of smoke, light cereals and Belgian funkiness. Thin mouth feel for a stout. Flavour has the roasty-smoky malts in front then it thins out with a dry sour finish. Ok I guess but not what I look for in a stout.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Impressive dark blackness in color. A very big frothy, tan head rises robustly above. Some hang time on the head. It settles into moderate ringlet. Light bitter, chocolate nose. That same profile in taste along with some farmhouse like dark fruit notes. There's a dryness in the body.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Am I judging this as a Belgian or a stout? Tricky review... has a light roast nose with mere hints of sourness and it appears dark and robust like a strong porter. At that point I thought it was a stout. Flavor is sourness mixed with roast Malts and coffee with strong bitterness. Mouthfeel is light and effervescent like a Belgian sour beer. Overall, I love Belgian sours and I love good stout, but I don't love sour stout, no matter how its made.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Nose-filling aroma has firm tones of charred wood and yeast with a hint of licorice. It pours a deep opaque sable with a fairly thick tan head. Smoky, malty flavor has tones of molasses, caramel and roast coffee with a licorice hint. Texture is a teensy on the thin side but strongly tingly. Overall, if not the best porter available, a worthy beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottled (from beerplanet.be). Deep ambery brown colour (close to black), with a mediumsized beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, mild ryebread as well as some dark fruits and ashes. Flavour is coffee, roasted malts, some toffee, mild spices as well as some yeastyness. Mild nutty notes as well as it warms up.