De Molen 1914 Triple Stout SSS

Brewed by Brouwerij de Molen
Style: Imperial Stout
Bodegraven, Netherlands

750ml, caged and corked bottle. Brewed 17 January 2008, bottled 21 Feb 2008, and bottle # 364 of 696. Poured a deep and dark amber tinged brownish color with a large sized off white head. Aromas of roastiness, cocoa, some woodiness, a little smoke, and a little earthy. Tastes of cocoa, roast, lighter earthiness, licorice, and very light coffee. Thin body with the alcohol content hidden.

2008 bottle #461 poured into a tulip. Pours a dark brown out of the glass and sits a bit lighter than I would expect in a stout of this size, showing a deep copper when held up to light. The aroma is pretty good, with lots of dark roasted malts, semi-sweet chocolate and some coffee. There are hints of lactose and oats as well. The taste is slightly different with a fruit character that I didn’t get in the aroma. It has a slightly metallic-like aftertaste that’s not too pleasant. The chocolate becomes much more powdery with a deeply roasted malt backbone. The mouthfeel is light bodied, almost thin and watery, with good carbonation and is extremely dry in the finish. As an export stout, this one is decent, but it doesn’t really hold up to the majority of impy stouts out there at the same ABV.

Bottle shared by Kevin. May Satan bless you, O Dark One.
Pours a deep, dark cola black with mahogany highlights and a nice beige head. Nose features powdered plastic chocolate cocoa, nutty roasted malt, and malt butter. Flavor is chocolate red powder, and plastic roasted malt with a coffee finish. Average mouthfeel that fails to capture the obvious complexity of the beer. Not bad, but too powdery and plastic.

750 ml bottle - #530, bottled 2/21/08; super thin, clear light brown with trace tan head; candy malt, fresh toffee and alcohol; kind of harsh at first sip; texture is watery with thin flavors or oat, grain and light roast; kind of sweet in the finish with a slight twang; very little roast to be found; another head scratcher from de molen

This 2007 bottled brew #336 from a bottle shop poured a head of fine to medium sized tan colored bubbles that were and left behind a opaque no visible carbonation dark brown colored body and a fair lacing. The mild aroma was roasted malt and dark malt. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and strongly tingly at the finish. The mild flavor contained notes of roasted malt and dark malt. A decent one that I would consider buying again.

Bottle 75cl. @ home.
Clear with many small size body particles, a medium to dark brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily to creamy, carbonation is soft. [20090710]

Bottle at home ... What a panic when i thoight id rated this... turns out i put the 1914 porter here by mistake.. opps... Deep brown ... short lived tan head ... big sweet chocoilate roast ... some woody tones ... little nut ... but mostly chocolate roast nose... fizzy in mouth with a very instant hop hit ... grainy and oak come through along with a hop bitterness ... light roast there but oily hop dominated... If this had a bit more body it could give Darkness a run for its monery ... nice but i prefer my stouts more roasty

Bottle. #246. Ruby-black beer with a huge light tan head. Coffee and roast aroma with a bit of chocolate. Roasty, coffee and big licorice flavor with a little chocolate and malt. Medium-plus bodied. Coffee and roast linger with licorice and some chocolate. Hops in background and a litle bitterness throughout.