Bónne Nuit Bisou
The Bruery

 

 

A: Lots of chocolate, with slightly sweet, rich chocolate-like malts.

A: Totally black color, opaque, with a thin head that quickly forms a ring around the glass.

T: Big, rich dark chocolate, rich slightly sweet chocolate malts, with a light cherry presence. The beer is redolent to chocolate-cherry cake.

M: Full bodied with light carbonation.

O: Very solid; while the beer is not smooth and one would never guess it's on nitro, the beer has a chocolate aroma and flavor that is very chocolate cake-like.

 

Not a huge fan of cherries, or cherry flavored things, but this was an exception. Extremly good and drinkable. Actually the best beer in our flight. Everything blended together smoothly, and the taste is solid. Lacking much of the tartness, but the cherry, tobacco leaf and chocolate oak flavors makes up for it.

 

An off white creamy foamy head with good retention. The beer is dark brown with some reddish tints, The clarity of the beer is opaque.

N: super ripe cherries, milk chocolate, medium roasted coffee, roasted malts, fruity ester, yeast, bread, earthy and some resin notes.

T: Ripe cherries, milk chocolate, roasted coffee, vanilla, fruity ester, citrus, yeasty, bready, earthy, molasses, and some resin.

M: Velvety, creamy little carbonation, chewy, and full body. This beer is so very tasty. The nitro gives the beer a very velvety texture that makes it an easy sipper.

O: Taste like a chocolate covered cherry with subtle tart note.

 

 

On tap at the Bruery tasting room on 08/07/16.

Stout characteristics are dominant. Mostly cocoa with some coffee and subtle cherry on the finish. On nitro.

 

Was described as a tart chocolate cherry stout on nitro but the tartness was minimal, if present at all. Fine by me. The resulting beer was deliciously smooth, easy drinking, but richly chocolatey and velvety. The name, btw, is "bissou"; good night kisses.