Brooklyn Cuvée Noire

Once a "Ghost Bottle" that we only made for ourselves, Brooklyn Cuvée Noire finally journeys beyond our walls. A stout-like blend of German and British pale and dark malts, this beer fermented with Belgian yeast and then spends more than six months in Kentucky bourbon barrels. Dry, brisk, and complex, showing notes of chocolate, coffee, citrus, vanilla and coconut, Cuvée Noire is refermented in this bottle of Champagne yeast. It is a most excellent accompaniment means to dinner.

3.6

215 reviews

Brooklyn, United States

Community reviews

3.3 How: Bottle. Where: Tasting 2016-05-28. Appearance: Black colour with a beige head. Aroma: Liquorice, chocolate, dried fruit, raisin, roasted malt, alcohol. Body: Medium to full body, low to medium carbonation. Flavour: Chocolate, liquorice, dried fruit, roasted malt, raisin, alcohol. Comment: Too much alcohol in the aroma and flavour, a bit too unbalanced.

3.2 Bottle shared at RBScSG in Gothenburg. Pours blackish dark brown with a frothy mocha head that leaves a small trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is malty and boozy with roasted malts, vanilla fudge, coffee, chocolate, soil, minerals and boozy bourbon. Taste is sweet and malty. mouthfeel is tiny viscous, slightly sparkling, round, boozy and medium bodied. Finish is sweet and slightly bitter with roasted malts, vanilla fudge, charred wood, coffee, chocolate, liquorice, moist soil and bourbon alcohol. Over the top barrel presence. Over-carbonated.

3.2 (BQE Q2, 2014). Dégustation avec mon ami Frank. Cuvée Noire est une bière brune qui développe une mousse très dense. Au nez, le bourbon est bien présent. Des parfums d’orange, de malts grillés/rôtis de bois imbibé de noix de coco et d’épices complètent les arômes. En bouche, le bourbon est m’apparaît encore une fois très présent. Je peux cependant bien goûter les oranges ainsi que les malts européens et les levures. Au palais, le liquide est mince et pétillant. Une chaleur d’alcool boisé ainsi qu’une amertume de grains rôtis marquent la finale.

4.3 My girlfriend bought this for me, uh...well, here’s the rest. This was poured into a snifter. The appearance was a black color with a one finger white foamy appearance that dissipated within a good minute. Light foamy edgy lacing strings around the glass nicely. The smell starts off with a sweet sticky milk chocolate, and then a light ample amount of dark chocolate. A little bit of fudge runs in with a slight sticky sweet orange pulpiness to balance it out delicately. The taste was a nice sweet to semi-bitter and somewhat roasty flavor strolling into a sly sticky sweet chocolatey to sweet orange aftertaste. There’s a light sweet to semi-bitter finish. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sipping to sessionable sort of feel to it, maybe because it was aged - unsure. If anything, holy wow, what a sessionable sweet smooth feel over my tongue. Overall, for a Double/Imperial Stout and I know its aged, maybe I just had it at the right time, oh wow, best one ever by Brooklyn. Try a ’14 if you see it!

3.4 Bottle share at Chriso’s. Thanks! 2014 vintage. Black with a red hue, small foamy tan head. Aroma is booze, some mint, coriander spice, toasty. Body is medium, soft carbonation, slightly foamy. Taste is light biscuity, spice, vanilla bourbon and booze. I found the flavour surprisingly thin and it’s very hot. Alright.

3.9 This one has spend a few months chilling out. Really surprised by the forceful roast and oak as well as the minimal presence of the sweet orange peel and actual Bourbon. Frankly it borders more on the Scotch whisky side of the house... and yeah baby that is a good thing. Earthy, somewhat dry, minerally, leathery, and attacking crispiness upon the finish. More akin to a Danish styled Stout than Belgium which is fine by me. Only wished there was a tad more heft and sweetness to balance the bitter charred roast. I am liking this much more than expected but it still could use another 6-12 months of aging.

3.7 Bottle 750ml. @ [ DOE - Olfestival Kobenhavn 2015 ] @ Lokomotivvaerkstedet, Otto Busses Vej 5A, 2450 Copenhagen SV, Denmark. [ As Brooklyn Cuvee Noire ]. Clear dark red brown color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, wood, tobacco. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate acidic with a long duration, roasted, sweet malt, tobacco, citrus - acidic. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20150528]

3.5 Bottle@Chris and Ruth’s Pre-GBBF 2015, London - pours black with beige head. Dark roasted malty aroma and taste with chocolate, coffee, caramel, burnt dark malty nuances, some vanilla, bourbon infused wooden notes, roasted finish.

3.8 Bottle share at Chris & Ruth’s pre- gbbf shindig, 2015. Dark brown pour with a beige head. Nice nose of bonfire toffee, creme caramel and sweet spice. Flavours of toffee, caramel and a whisper of chocolate. Very smooth. Nice.

3.2 Bottle at ChrisOs Pre-GBBF. It pours back with a medium tan head. The nose is massive rich vanilla action, quite intense, toffee, coconut, toast, oily and green fruits. The taste is rich, oily, earthy roast, vanilla, toasted coconut, some acidity, coffee burnt caramel and green coconut with a dry, bourbon - driven finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. A bit too much. Intense, yet the body is quite there to carry it. OK anyhow.

3.0 8th August 2015 Pre GBBF tasting as Chris and Ruth’s. Almost clear amber beer, small pale tan head. Palate is airy and fairly dry. Mild fine carbonation. Thin dark malts, mildly tangy. Mellow bourbon and bourbon fruits. Little spice. Light dry finish. Tastes a bit recessed and tired. Certainly thin for it’s abv. Underwhelming.

3.3 Bottle at present GBBF 2015. Black beer lasting tan head. actually more like a red wine barrel. I thought thin but fine. Vanilla and bourbon. Too much bourbon.

3.8 Dark brown/black color; Medium slightly creamy body; Aroma of smoky sweet malt, yeast, vanilla, coconut, some chocolate, and licorice; Flavor of sweet malt, yeast, oak, caramel, molasses, chocolate, and vinious notes; Warm finish; Nicely balanced & fairly complex; Pretty decent.

3.5 750 ml corked and caged bottle poured a clear dark reddish brown with a small lasting creamy tan head. Aromas of milk chocolate, orange zest, yeast, bourbon and oak. Palate was medium bodied and smooth. Flavors of cocoa, orange zest, yeast, light oak and a hint of bourbon with a smooth finish.

3.5 Bottle. Dark browny, well foamy. Dark malty, slight sweet bready, raisiny, bit chocolately salry licorice, dried plummy, figsy sweet malty nose. MEd full bodied, round, slight oily texture. Light drinkable though, easy, abv doesn’t bother. Med long finish, with a figsy slight sweet bready flavour. Pretty nice. Good flavours, smooth easy.Feels a bit too smooth easily forgotten too.

3.9 Pours black with an off white soapy foam head. Aroma of chocolate, bbq smoke and some floral notes. Very smokey flavours and a hint of the bourbon and some vanilla.

3.3 Bottle, sample @ RBScSG ’15. Blackish pour with some tiny tan lacings. Nose is tart with vanilla. Taste is sweet, bourbon, vanilla, some soy sauce and a lingering tartness.

3.3 Sample at RBScSG. Black with tanned head. Dark fruit, alcohol, coffee, liquorice, chocolate and malt. Semi sweet low carbonation low bitterness.

3.6 Sampled at RBScSG -15 Dark brown with a small, tan head. Sweet, vinous and slightly sourish aroma. Sweet, dried fruits in the flavour; fists, raisins.

3.3 Bottle at Grand Tasting, RBSCSG 2015 in Gothenburg. Black beer with a small beige head. Sourish woody aroma, licorice, dark chocolate, yeasty, cocoa, licorice, raisins, figs. Sweetish woody flavor, bourbon, fruity, warming alcohol. A bit unbalanced.

3.7 Bottle cons 2015-07-11 Göteborg AR: Bourbon vanilla, vinos, roasted malt, chocolate AP: dark mahoghny, stouty cream brown F: sweet caramel, vanilla, wee grainy, thick fluid, wee liqurice

3.8 Dark brown , almost black in color; nice ,beige head . Bourbon and vanilla dominate in aroma ; slight notes of alcohol , coffee and dark fruits are also presented. Dry taste with a lot of bourbon , light bitterness and warming alcohol. Interesting

3.9 Bottled, from Systembolaget. Black, small head. Bourbon, aniseed and orange up front. Mid dry with full body and rounded, spritzy mouthfeel. Some caramel, plenty of bourbon, some orange. Mildly warming finish with slight bitterness.

3.1 Bottle at Copenhagen Beer Festival 2015. Medium high light brown lasting head. Pitch black body. Mild coffee vanilla caramel aroma and flavor with little hops bitterness, low caronation and a long sweet finish.

3.9 Bottle @ DØE. Very dark brown with small beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, dark fruits and vanilla. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, caramel, dark fruits, wood, little vanilla, yeast, medium sweet and medium bitter.

3.8 Aroma: Smelling of dark bread, orange, coffee and oak. Appearance: A dark brown colored beer. A off-white head with some lacing and good curtains. Taste: Tasting dark bread, sour figs, herbs, oak and licorice. Palate: Medium low carbonation, a soft texture. A medium body with a slightly dry finish. Overall: Wooden dry, and slightly thin. But not bad. Note: Bottle 750 ml at home. Reviewed 2015-06-05.

3.8 Bottle at KØ15. Roasted and citric aroma. Black colour. Small off-white head. The flavour is roasted, fruity with a distinct rum barrel note. Late liquorice and rum finish.

3.7 Bottle KØ. Creamy White good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter flavor. Strong bourbon-Vanilla notes. Long heavy bitter finish. Creamy palate.

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3.9 Bottle, KØ15. Pours cloudy very dark brown with airy light tan head, Clear aroma of roast, coffee and caramel malt, with notes of vanilla. Sweetish flavour of vanilla and malt, with notes of barrel and touches of roasted coffee beans. Sweetish and boozy aftertaste. Warming alcohol presence. Good stuff.