Sgt. Night Vision
Uiltje Brewing Company

Enjoyed a 0.33l bottle of this at De Gouverneur in Maastricht on 24SEP22, during my recent European sojourn. This one set me back €6.50.

It poured dark, black as a winter night, with minimal head. What was present was a wispy, beige layer of foam, with light lacing. Aroma had coffee, dark fruit and some dark choco. Had a fairly decent feel, with a medium body.

Tasted lightly sweet, with more choco, light coffee, and dark fruit (raisins and currants). Had a good balance of sweet malts and mild bitterness. The finish had a smidge of floral hoppiness. Solid all around. Prosit!

4/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

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L:
-pours the darkest of brown with no light coming through and a small,foamy,beige head
S:
-dark chocolate,coffee,caramel,molasses,floral
T:
-dark chocolate,coffee,caramel,spicy,toast,syrup
F:
-medium carbonation
-medium body
-alcohol noticeable
O:
Great dutch Imperial Stout.

330ml bottle - wow, what a busy label. How high were these guys when they came up with the design?

This beer pours a fairly solid black abyss, with some subtle amber basal edges, and one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some decent boiling cauldron profile lace around the glass as it quickly evaporates.

It smells of roasted, and kind of meaty caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, licorice root, tanned leather, some weak dark orchard fruitiness, and very, very tame earthy, musty, and dead floral hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, medium chocolate wafers, day-old coffee grounds, oily leather, anise seeds, more mixed citrus and bruised stone fruitiness, faint vanilla bean, and more well-understated herbal, leafy, and musky floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-satiating frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and actually more or less smooth, with perhaps a minor smokey essence maybe not exactly toeing the company line here. It finishes trending dry, the same charred character nudging the lingering result in that particular direction.

Overall - yeah, this does have that certain Euro quality that I often find in examples of the style that arrive from across the pond. Mostly what I am referring to is the smoked notes, which, to be honest, I can really take them or leave them. At any rate, the 21-proof wowee sauce measure is integrated well enough, so I shall sip away at the rest of this while basking in the sunshine coming in from the frigid outdoors.

 

 

 

Dark colour, medium brown head with long of tiny bubbles. Medium retention, compact lace. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, licorice, raisins, vanilla. Medium body, creamy sweet texture, great carbonation. Smokey coffee finish. Taste of coffee, milk chocolate, raisins, vanilla, licorice. Really good stuff here

Pours black with nice head. Nose is dark licorice, charred malts, and dark fruit (blackberries). Taste is really nice - lots of licorice and burnt fruit. Tastes like blackberries from the barbecue. Bitterness lingers on the aftertaste. Mouthfeel is creamy and thick. Good beer, but a bit one-dimensional for me.

 

 

Got this one from De Bierkoning in Amsterdam

From a bottle into a snifter
Best Before 03/01/2022

APPEARANCE: Clear dark brown pour yields a 3+ finger, medium looking, creamy and fluffy light tan head with great retention. Transparent bistre brown body with no carbonation evident. Head slowly recedes to a thick, foamy cap and leaves sheets of foamy lacing down the glass. Full cap remains leaving lots of lacing sticking to the glass as it empties. Average body but decent head.

SMELL: Lots of roasted and burnt aromas, leather notes, hints of chocolate, as well as some earthy and citrusy hop qualities. Quite bold plenty of dark malt character.

TASTE: Burnt, leathery and some sweet dark fruit flavors up front. Some alcohol as well and slightly acrylic. A good dose of bitterness at the swallow with a long and lingering finish of sweet dark fruits, leather, licorice, alcohol, as well as a punch of citrus hops and bitterness as well. Pretty flavorful, and rather burnt, leathery and hop forward.

PALATE: Medium body and medium levels of carbonation. Creamy and rather smooth on the palate, goes down fine with a bit of a lingering burn and finishes somewhat mouth-coating. Bitterness and some alcohol linger.

OVERALL: Not bad. This is definitely a hop forward example of the style. Very burnt as well, and the acrylic character isn’t quite my thing, but there’s some good stuff going on here too. Het Uiltje seems to fair much better with their IPAs with me but as far as the stout beer goes, this one is worth checking out. Cheers.

Bottled and love the comic strip label
Pours a jet black body with decent enough tan head
Cocoa and liquorice aroma
Coffee flavour
Deceptively easy drinking