Troubadour Westkust
Troubadour Westkust
Rated 3.575 by BeerPals
Brewed by Brouwerij De Musketiers / Musketeers Brewery, The
Sint-Gillis-Waas, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Style: Strong Ale
9.2% Alcohol by Volume
45 International Bittering Units
This beer is available all year
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Troubadour Westkust is a dark, almost black tasting beer with notes of hop, roasted malt, coffee and subtle hints of chocolate and vanilla. The taste is a balance between roasted malt and coffee followed by a strong but pleasant bitterness that slowly becomes more persistent and creates a long hoppy aftertaste. Troubadour Westkust is an excellent choice to end a culinary evening.
ID: 50712 Last updated 2 weeks ago Added to database 11 years agoKey Stats
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Statistics
| Overall Rank | 2209 |
| Overall Percentile | 96 |
| Style Rank | 88 of 811 |
| Style Percentile | 89.1 |
| Lowest Score | 3.6 |
| Highest Score | 4.1 |
| Average Score | 3.920 |
| Weighted Score | 3.575 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.217 |
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5 Member Reviews
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8
On tap at Copenhagen Beer Festival 2013. Very dark brown to ruby colour, nearly black. Large beige head. Pleasant aroma of American hops, on a background of roasted malts with mild coffee notes. The flavour is also mildly roasty with a nice amount of fruity American hops, not extreme. Slightly warming mouthfeel, otherwise the alcohol is well hidden. Good stuff.
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8
330ml brown bottle from the LCBO, written on front label 8.6% ABV and 55 IBU - with a best before date 2022/APR/08. Pours a hazy copper brown colour with light ruby highlights. The head is huge, fluffy-creamy, great retention and some nice creamy lacing. Aromas of roasted malts, oatmeal, with notes of chocolate and mild grassy hops. The mouthfeel get fairly dry in the end, with lots of bitterness lingering. The flavours are mostly hops over the very light roasted malts. A pretty decent Black IPA... from Belgium.
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Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8
330 ml capped bottle. Poured in the original Troubadour stemmed tulip glass an unfiltered and hazy burgundy-brown coloured BDIPA with a two fingers creamy, dense, fine and beige foamy head that had a very long retention and tons of micro bubbles. Low carbonation. Good lacing. The aroma is roasted malts, roasted coffee beans, burnt notes, toffees, floral hops and fruity tones. The flavour is a deep hoppy bitterness, dark bitter chocolate, coffeish notes, brown sugar, caramel. The mouthfeel is creamy, fulled and thick. The texture is oily. This full bodied BDIPA has a long deep bitter finish and the expected, if late coming, warming effect. For me, not easy drinkable, this complex and tasty Flandrian Black Imperial Pale Ale needs another tasting session.
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Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7
A dry roasty beer. Pretty big all around with lots of roast, coffee and bitterness. Little to the hops except grapefruit rinds and bitterness. Pretty good beer but there are better. Huge head from a normal pour.
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Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9
The beer pours a very dark brown amber color with very good head retention and thick sticky lacing all around. The nose is complex and terrific in this beer, as i pick up caramel, chocolate, smoke, light dry citrus and a hint of burnt toast. The flavor profile replicates the nose, with the dry citrus and burnt toast flavor balancing the moderate sweet choclate, brown sugar and caramel beautifully. The beer dries out fairly well on the long finish, and mouthfeel is fairly full otherwise. Alcohol is well integrated into the flavor. Overall its a pretty impressive beer, complex and solid.
