Malheur Brut Noir (Black Chocolate) - Brouwerij De Landtsheer NV

bark

Sweden

3.53/5  rDev -14.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

The colour is dark red-brown; the large foam forms a semi-compact head.

The smell is wine-y with notes of alcohol, mixed fruits (dry cherries) and flowers.

The taste is fruity with notes of alcohol, strong matured wine, cherries and some earthy notes, a burned touch and some butter. The taste is notable short; with a dry flavour of strawberry jam.

The carbonation is very strong with large bubbles making it very fresh.

Not as dry (brut) as one could expect and I didn’t find it worth the price (round $15 for 75 cl)

Serving type: bottle

12-18-2005 15:30:35 | More by bark

RBorsato

Virginia

4.03/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

Milk chocolate brown with a full pillowy light brown head. Raisin and roasted chestnut aroma with a slight touch of cocoa. Champagne yeast flavor stands out over a light cocoa character; alcohol burn very noticeable. Medium bodied with lots of airiness underneath due to the champagne yeast.

Hmmm - not quite as good as the Standard Malheur Brut from what I remember... a bit too strong in alcohol to have very often and very pricey to boot.

Per Rare Beer Club notes; pH 4.2. 12% ABV. 10% ABW.
apparent extract (g/100g) 1 - 1.5 g. / real extract (g/100g) 5 - 6 g
OG: 22° PLATO. IBU: 33 – 36 BU. Color: 75 – 85 EBC

Tasted: 11/20/05

(25.45 oz green champagne style bottle, corked, caged, and wrapped with a gold foil top)

Serving type: bottle

11-22-2005 17:45:17 | More by RBorsato

paterlodie

Belgium

4/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

BB 15-12-2006. Good presance withyellowish head and a darkbrown/black beer. Nose is very fruity giving mostly stawberry, cherry and vanill. Next to that good maltyness and roast. Taste is sweet, hoppy, roasty, lots of alcohol, chocolate and malts altogether litle bombastic. Very carbonated makes it litle fresher but sweetness is also very present in mouthfeel. Good beer but IMO not the best of the malheurrange, this mostly cause of the IMO overdone sweetness of the brew. The bubles& alcohol rise to your head though!

Serving type: bottle

09-19-2005 20:07:31 | More by paterlodie

stcules

Italy

4.72/5  rDev +14.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Brown, dark, nut. Beige head, abundant and persistent, even if not totally compact.
The smell is tending to vinous, red grape. It is a fall season smell. Musk, grass, mushrooms, wood.
The taste is full of raisin, cocoa, earthy and woody, with dried plum. Astringency in the finish.
Medium-high body.
Raisin, cocoa, dusty in the aftertaste, and again final astringency.

Serving type: bottle

04-28-2005 21:58:08 | More by stcules

northyorksammy

Ontario (Canada)

4.03/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Yeasty belgium, with black chocalate apearance. Some roast, sugary, bittersweet. Wood, black cherry notes,odd nuts and cocoa. Complex flavour but medium mouthfeel. For end of meal/dessert. Hugh carbonation and noticeable high alcohol. Different, worth having once.

Serving type: bottle

12-16-2004 16:42:13 | More by northyorksammy

taez555

Massachusetts

4.33/5  rDev +5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Shared a bottle of this with my wife at the Kulminator in Belgium after we were informed they'd run out of Deus.

Served in a basket and poured into the correct malheur, saucer type, champagne style glasses.

This beer poured a dark body with a beautiful pillowy tan head.

The nose was a soft and subtle mixture of dark malts and choclate with a strong woody note.

Big bubbled champagne carbonation attacks you with this beer. Soft and subtle dark malts mixed with a tart subtle fruit touch. Some mild phenols and traces of alcohol A mild bitterness and even a little chalkyness are present throughout. Natural oak and wood tones sit up front and are present against chocolate and cocoa flavors.

Really quite an interesting brut style beer. Because of the chocolate and dark malts it actually seems like more of a cross between a belgian dubbel and a champagne than say Deus which tastes SO MUCH like champagne.
A beer perfect for a special occasion or celebration.

Serving type: bottle

11-30-2004 00:00:00 | More by taez555

Rastacouere

Quebec (Canada)

4.47/5  rDev +8.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4

26oz: Dark chocolate brown, superb beige head is eternally lasting, foamy, full of subtle lacing. Enormous chocolate malt aroma, predictably tart, yet somehow, they managed to find a fit between this and saison-like haystack scents. I found the balance to be remarkable for such an experiment, delicate herbal and flowery undertones together add tremendous depth. Rich bitter/tart chocolate, actually this may be tarter than it appears, yet I didn’t find any annoyance in the marriage with the roastiness. No trace of alcohol in the aroma, remarkable feature by itself, but in such a complex blend, you don’t get to spend much time thinking about that. Add to this a killer expanding in bubbles incredibly smooth foamy mouthfeel and you know where your 25$ went. I still think I prefer the regular Brut, but then again, I tend to prefer blonde Belgians to darker ones. I can recognize a killer recipe though and this one gave me a hard time to find places to give less than perfect scores! Astonishingly unique. A sipper that you couldn’t drink too much of while being an incarnation of greatness! de Landtsheer can brew people, my rating may be a mess, but take that for granted. Cheers to my pal muzzlehatch for this.

Serving type: bottle

11-09-2004 01:27:22 | More by Rastacouere

marburg

Michigan

4.63/5  rDev +12.4%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

Cola brown brew with an active, billowing tan froth. Cherry liqueor and a certain plant-like freshness are backnotes to coccoa powder and a musty yeast quality. Some chocolate, some oak in the flavor. Lively and mildly bitter, this is a very natural-feeling beer with floral, plant, and natural sweeteners presenting themselves. This has a dry finish, and the alcohol is well-hidden. This looks like it should be an overly sweet alcohol bomb whose depth is entirely based on esters. Not the case. This a dry, complex ale that's remarkably drinkable.

Serving type: bottle

11-04-2004 17:09:20 | More by marburg

drewbage

California

4.13/5  rDev +0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Sampled from a bottle presented at the final night of tasting at the Toronado Barleywine Festival.

Beer pours into the glass with a dark brown red with a tall fluffy head.

Aroma is of black pepper mixed with deep earthiness of mushrooms and nuts and coffee.

Flavor is dry and tart with a spice that is melded into a bone dry finish with a small metal twinge to the final touch.

Interesting beer.. not as crisp as the regular Malheur Brut, but with a little more character.

Serving type: bottle

07-24-2004 08:19:57 | More by drewbage

aracauna

Georgia

3.63/5  rDev -11.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

The dark reddish brown body is topped by an appropriate light tan head. The aroma has a good bit of fruitiness and a little spice, but the chocolate, while there, really isn’t there enough to justify the American name for this beer. This one seemed a little lacking compared to beers that came before and after it at the tasting.

Serving type: bottle

07-13-2004 06:01:10 | More by aracauna