De Molen 1914 Porter

Brewed by Brouwerij de Molen
Style: Porter
Bodegraven, Netherlands

Botte at Monks Café Sveavägen. Black coloured with a medium sized beige head. Roasted aroma of caramel, chocolate and hay. Roasted flavour of caramel, chocolate and hay with notes of hops. Roasted and hoppy finish.

(750ml, bottle #210/708) Pours a clear amber-brown body with a small off-white head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, and light vanilla. Flavor of roasted malt, raisins, chocolate, and toasted nuts.

Name: Porter
Date: March 20, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: muddy dark brown, fine beige head
Aroma: dry chocolate aroma, touch of caramel but still stays pretty dry
Flavor: rich chocolate and caramel flavor, earthyness keeps it pretty dry, just a touch of sweetness in the finish brings out the other flavors
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

bottle #210 thanks to bu11zeye. deep brown pour with a thick cream head. nose of chocolate, sweet malts and vanilla. nice on the palate with a flavor of chocolate and roasted malts.

Bottle #208 shared by ATLBeerdog at the Brick Store. It sounded like a champagne bottle when the top popped on this one. It pours very light for a porter, a hazy iced tea brown with a big tan head that dissipates slowly and leaves traces of lacing. The aroma was very unique for a porter with some dry chocolate sweetness along with a sizable toasted malt backbone. There was a surprising amount of hops in the nose as well. Overall, an interesting mix of aromas that I wasn’t expecting. The taste follows the aroma with the chocolate malts forming the backbone with an initial spicy hop kick up front and a sour bitterness in the finish that seemed as much from the baker’s chocolate than from the hops, but it was dry either way. Again, very unique taste. The mouthfeel is fairly light for the style with lots of carbonation, probably a little too much for my liking. This was certainly not what I expected when I saw this bottle. It’s light for a porter but was still decent.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. The smell is roasty, coffee, malts, and chocolate. The look is clear, a brownish color, decent beige head. The taste is coffee, malts, roasty, chocolate. Decent.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Brown in color with a decent off-white head. Aroma is of cola, cocoa, chocolate and brown sugar. Taste is lightly roasted with chocolate and cola.

Bottle thanks to bu11zeye. Pours a brown with some ruby hues, beige head. Aroma of some dark roast. Flavor of some dark roast, signs of hops. Mouthfeel is medium body with high carbonation. Overall, a pretty good porter!