De Molen 1914 Porter

Brewed by Brouwerij de Molen
Style: Porter
Bodegraven, Netherlands

Pours clear deep red brown with a creamy tanned head. Aroma is heavily yeasty but also contains some roasted barley and coffee. It does grow a bit in the mouth but it still has a nice "milky" texture. Taste is sweet and sour. (Bottle, courtesy of tarjei 12.12.2009)

In short: An overly dirty earthy dark yeasty ale of some kind
How: Bottle 750ml. corked and caged. Consumed when about one year of aged (bottling date 1 oct 2008). Shared at a dinner
The look: Dark brown body topped by a beige ring of foam
In long: First my bottle was a gusher, beware. Nose and taste are amazingly dirty. This is very earthy, forest floor, very grainy malts, roasted nuts, dry dirty wood, spicy. Not fruity flavour, coffee, chocolate or anything. This is all about a big pile of dirty malts. Very yeasty. Doesn’t taste like any modern porter I drink. Drinkable in strange way. Ah, 1914, the World War I era, the good old days when everybody hated everybody instead of everybody hating America.

Biege frothy head red/brown tint to dark porter,aroma coffee vanilla caramel roasted notes,maltiness,flavours coffee and chocolate roasted tastes,light cocoa bitter,this has a taste that is not smooth or plesant the old London style,seems to lack something,finish weak dry tasting,no thanks.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate and licorice aroma. Roasted malty milk chocolate and coffee flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.

Dark brown body which is almost black with a lasting light tan head. The aroma is a little smokey and dark chocolate. Taste has some light burnt notes mainly then the chocolate. Nothing huge or outstanding but drinkable.

Black of color with a beige head. An aroma of roasted malt, coffee, liqurice, spice and weak smoke. A flavor of roasted malt, liqurice, dusty, spice, smoke and acid notes.

Bottle. Pours a nutbrown beer with a lightbrown head. The aroma is roasted malt and coffee. The flavor has some acidity. The palate is a little too thin. Overall this beer promises a bit more than it can deliver.

Bottle. Dark amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is dry, smoked, cacao. Flavour is sweet, cacao, coffee, hop, malt, roasted, smoked, Coffee bitter finish. Nice beer.