Extra Export Stout
Brouwerij De Dolle Brouwers

Extra Export StoutExtra Export Stout
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From:
Brouwerij De Dolle Brouwers
 
Belgium
Style:
Foreign / Export Stout
Ranked #33
ABV:
9%
Score:
87
Ranked #16,505
Avg:
3.88 | pDev: 12.11%
Reviews:
416
Ratings:
626
Status:
Active
Rated:
May 14, 2023
Added:
Mar 13, 2004
Wants:
  18
Gots:
  43
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Reviewed by 1BrewBacca from Georgia

3.28/5  rDev -15.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Looks are typical of a stout. Got a pungent/sourness to the taste that I fine undesirable.
Dry on the palate.
Not a favorite or a fan. Too much like a sour beer.
May 14, 2023
 
Rated: 3.39 by travolta from California

Oct 01, 2022
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Rated by eric5bellies from Australia

3.77/5  rDev -2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Too thin on the body and bitter on the finish
Jul 17, 2022
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway

4.52/5  rDev +16.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5
330 ml bottle, as De Dolle Special Extra Export Stout, kindly shared by my beerpal Jan Magnus. ABV is 9%. Pitch black colour, big tan head. First a fairly moderate but very nice roasty aroma (gets even better as the beer warms up a little) with some vinous notes, hints of dark dried fruits and leather. The flavour is also vinous, oaky and roasty, hints of raisins, coffee and liquorice. Overall brilliant.
Mar 22, 2022
 
Rated: 4.19 by _Adam_ from Maryland

Mar 04, 2022
 
Rated: 3.59 by TMoney2591 from Illinois

Feb 21, 2022
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Reviewed by MikeWard from Pennsylvania

3.92/5  rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
330ml bottle into a pint glass. Could not find any freshness dating.

Darkest brown body with some reddish tints. Small tan head shrinks to a ring, hardly any lacing.

Tart berry aroma with some underlying light roast malt.

On tasting, as is often the case with this style, it takes an interesting turn into a tart mixed berry flavor, with a few hits of dried fruit. The stout really only shows up briefly in the finish.

Mouth between medium and full, finish tart with a fleeting light roast.

Overall, interesting and tasty beer. Happy to have tried it, but wouldn't want a session of these.
Feb 15, 2022
 
Rated: 3.93 by arzt from Germany

Jan 09, 2022
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Reviewed by Giampiero

4.99/5  rDev +28.6%
look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Easily one of my favourites, tried in on a whim attracted by the wonderful art on the bottle's sticker. Compared to other Export Stouts, De Dolle's offering is quite peculiar as it offers impressive smells of strawberry, cherry and other reddish fruits as it primary components, these are followed taste wise by notes of dark cholocate and cocoa, with a watery, fresh aftertaste and strong carbonation. Alcohol barely perceptible, and overall extremely drinkable.
Dec 06, 2021
 
Rated: 3.93 by Taenim from Maine

Nov 21, 2021
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Reviewed by ThisWangsChung from Maryland

3.62/5  rDev -6.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a dark brown color topped with a khaki-colored head. The latter has a texture far more befitting a Belgian ale...I mean of course, it IS a Belgian ale after all. The aroma is very much like a brown stout, focusing more on chocolate than roasted malt. This is one of the fruitiest stouts I've encountered, as the dark fruit and even berry qualities are downright intense. There's some distinctive tobacco as well. Overall, what can I say apart from the way it puts the "Belgian" in Belgian stout. The flavor profile doesn't work as well as the nose indicated. Dark fruits are the dominant flavor, with tobacco and chocolate following closely behind. Belgian yeast is *very* evident, bringing strong notes of pumpernickel bread and black pepper. The raspberry finish brings a surprising amount of tartness that could catch someone off guard. All in all, it's definitely a clever and tasty product in terms of the varying notes, but I also find it scattershot and imbalanced. This feels very airy on the palate, yet there's a subtle chewiness as well. Carbonation is assertive. I love how different it is compared to other Belgian beers, stouts, and even Belgian-style stouts, but objectively I can't quite call it a great stout. It doesn't seem like it's perfectly in sync - having said that, I find my palate adjusting to its relative weirdness pretty well. Think of it as a big Belgian dark ale with emphasis on the dark part rather than a stout for maximum enjoyment.
Aug 04, 2021
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Reviewed by BGDrock from Canada (ON)

3.59/5  rDev -7.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pure black body, vigorously forming a thick, mocha head with solid retention.
Aromas of raisin, port, rum, marshmallow, Glossettes (milk chocolate and raisins for those who aren't Canadian).
Tastes of black forest cake, with dark cherry jam, and light chocolate; surprisingly light and thin feel, although full, frothy carbonation prevents it from being watery or flat; touch of cola flavour; a tannic bitterness keeps it dry and balances the sweetness (though it's not sugary or syrupy by any means).

Not what I expected, and not really doing it for me. It misses the big roasty flavours, and the bitterness, I'd hope for. I guess they are trying to do something different.....
May 24, 2021
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Reviewed by johnnnniee from New Hampshire

4.35/5  rDev +12.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Bottle from Etre
Dark brown with faint garnet at the edges, brilliant clarity with a tan bubbly head that persists. Rich chocolate and caramelized sugars with bits of toffee, licorice and prune. A decadent layered malt bomb. So good.
Feb 02, 2021
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Reviewed by Souraboutsours from New Jersey

3.82/5  rDev -1.5%
look: 5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
The beer that I bought (somehow I got ahold of this in the middle of nowhere) was in the liquor store for 5 years before I cracked it open. Since it's conditioned in the bottle, it was mostly head, and had a metallic smell, and a slight metallic taste. But that didn't impede on the really complex coffee and chocolate flavors that came through. If I can find one that was bottled sooner, maybe my opinion would change.
Dec 02, 2020
 
Rated: 2.53 by rab53 from Washington

Nov 17, 2020
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York

4.37/5  rDev +12.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
This one pours a fairly dark black color, with a big fluffy head, and lots of lacing. It took a while to pour fully - the head was huge and unrelenting here.

This smells like tobacco, chocolate, red wine, dried grapefruit skin, cherry, oak, leather, coffee, and roasted malt.

Most funky stouts I've had lean way more towards than funky than stout, and I can appreciate that this is mostly a stout at heart with some funky clothes on. There's roast, smoke, leather and tobacco, earthy, bitter, but with a slightly creamy sweetness, as there's lots of dark fruit and some dark chocolate. The funk level is perfectly subtle here, adding some red wine tannins, dried grape, lemon, and some grapefruit. I get some cherry truffle as well.

This is medium bodied, and very creamy, with very little acidity to it. It's quite drinkable despite the ABV and style.

I haven't had a bad beer from this brewery in years. They are esoteric, weird, delicious, and one of the best breweries in Belgium.
Sep 11, 2020
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Reviewed by chum_husk from Minnesota

3.63/5  rDev -6.4%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3
12oz bottle over three years old

Very carbonated, had to dump out my first attempt at a pour (luckily I'm making roast beef), very dark brown almost black, giant choco head that sticks around. Smell is toasted grain, choco, almost like an oatmeal stout. Very little belgian character in the nose. Taste is smooth, very hoppy and smoked, big coffee and chocolate as well.. everything is slightly subdued and muddled together. Weird acidic off-note. Alcohol is only apparent by the burning in your belly

Time has done little to mellow this one, almost the opposite
Aug 30, 2020
 
Rated: 4.09 by robotic_being from Illinois

Jul 17, 2020
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Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England

3.13/5  rDev -19.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.5
L- I started prising the cap and immediately beer started flowing down the sides of the bottle - grrrr. The bottle had rested for about 2 weeks, then chilled, and handled very carefully! It's currently in the sink deciding if it wants to continue spuming to death, or whether it can be poured. ... +3mins later, the bottle is still foaming down the side! ... I finally get it poured over the bathroom sink having lost about 15% of it.
S- Big toasty chocolate coffee.
T- Coffee then smoke, both very pungent.So much so the 9% ABV is pretty well concealed.
F- Pungent, 'winter-warmer', a slow sipping beer.
O- Such a spuming pour as this is always guaranteed to get my back up. The beer is pungently flavoured but doesn't have the body/Feel to compliment it. Net result is a 9% stout+smokey beer that feels thin!
330ml bottle bought from BelgiumInABox in Antwerp/BE for home delivery to me in London/UK. BB:

For my sins I have a 2nd bottle of this, so I've taken it out of the fridge early to let this warm up some way. I'll try in 1/2hr or so and see whether the higher temp adds body/feel to the rather blunt-weapon Taste.
... Bottle#2. Begin to prise cap carefully, foam rises fast up neck towards cap. I put the bottle in the sink for 15-20mins. try again, it still spumes out the cap when I pop the lid. Carefully pour 1/3-1/2 bottle, the glass is 1/2-foam. It's warmer, richer, the coffee is now hugely pungent, but the 9% is still hidden. But frankly I'm taking 0.5point off my previous 'Overall' draft-version score of 3, as if this is routinely such a damned nuisance to pour then zero chance I'd choose to bother trying again. Surprising/what a shame.
May 05, 2020
 
Rated: 4 by cdwil from Texas

Dec 08, 2019
Extra Export Stout from Brouwerij De Dolle Brouwers
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