Noire Classique
AMB - Maître Brasseur
- From:
- AMB - Maître Brasseur
- Quebec, Canada
- Style:
- English Stout
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.67 | pDev: 10.9%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 18, 2012
- Added:
- Jul 28, 2010
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by eat from Canada (QC)
3.92/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
From AMB's Classique mixed 12-pack. True to its name, the Noire pours with an opaque black body topped by a good cover of mocha-coloured head. Retention could be improved; didn't take to long to fade to a collar. Some lacing.
Fairly nice nose presenting chocolate, malted milk, lots of minerals, whole wheat bread and earthy hops in good balance.
Flavourful and well-balanced with lots of roasted malt up front, just enough soily hops and dark caramel. Bits of minerals, dark chocolate and old coffee grounds. Cheap-tasting alcohol makes a subtle appearance on the finish but this is still a pretty solid stout.
The label advertises it's light body as a positive but it ends up being a little too light for my liking. Carbonation is almost overdone but not too bad.
Given the overall mediocre quality of the mixed 12-pack, this quite-decent stout is by far the standout. I'm not sure exactly what a "classic black" beer is supposed to be (porter? stout? schwarzbier?) but I would definitely call this one an English stout. I would potentially drink this again, especially if I found it somewhere on tap. Worth checking out if English stout is really your thing.
Aug 16, 2011Fairly nice nose presenting chocolate, malted milk, lots of minerals, whole wheat bread and earthy hops in good balance.
Flavourful and well-balanced with lots of roasted malt up front, just enough soily hops and dark caramel. Bits of minerals, dark chocolate and old coffee grounds. Cheap-tasting alcohol makes a subtle appearance on the finish but this is still a pretty solid stout.
The label advertises it's light body as a positive but it ends up being a little too light for my liking. Carbonation is almost overdone but not too bad.
Given the overall mediocre quality of the mixed 12-pack, this quite-decent stout is by far the standout. I'm not sure exactly what a "classic black" beer is supposed to be (porter? stout? schwarzbier?) but I would definitely call this one an English stout. I would potentially drink this again, especially if I found it somewhere on tap. Worth checking out if English stout is really your thing.
Reviewed by Yoonisaykul from Canada (QC)
3.77/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.77/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
341ml bottle poured into beer-clean snifter.
A- Opaque black. Brown highlights. Cappucino coloured head did not last very long and I am now left with some freaky, groovy looking surface swirls and a thick ring around the glass. Some lacing I guess, not much to say about that.
S- Chocolate wafer with a dark chocolate backbone. Hot alcohol if you sniff hard enough. Very nice. Not that much of the metallic/mineral I was expecting.
T- Bitter right up front and all through out. A strong toasty/roasted bitterness. Aerating the after-taste reveals itself very similar to coffee. Some green in the creeps up in the after-taste as well.
M- Smooth, full body and slightly prickly carbonation together making this an interesting mouthfeel. Foamy and considerably dry yet pretty far from crisp.
D- Good. Smooth, tasty and refreshing without being watery or seltzery. I'd drink a few of these..
Definitely a better product than I was expecting. Worth trying if you see it in stores.
Jul 28, 2010A- Opaque black. Brown highlights. Cappucino coloured head did not last very long and I am now left with some freaky, groovy looking surface swirls and a thick ring around the glass. Some lacing I guess, not much to say about that.
S- Chocolate wafer with a dark chocolate backbone. Hot alcohol if you sniff hard enough. Very nice. Not that much of the metallic/mineral I was expecting.
T- Bitter right up front and all through out. A strong toasty/roasted bitterness. Aerating the after-taste reveals itself very similar to coffee. Some green in the creeps up in the after-taste as well.
M- Smooth, full body and slightly prickly carbonation together making this an interesting mouthfeel. Foamy and considerably dry yet pretty far from crisp.
D- Good. Smooth, tasty and refreshing without being watery or seltzery. I'd drink a few of these..
Definitely a better product than I was expecting. Worth trying if you see it in stores.
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