De Molen 1914 Triple Stout SSS

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

750mL Bottle. Heavy roast malt character, brash and grainy, a touch off. There’s a really husky, husky edge of 120L Crystal and chocolate malt. Pours a dark, dark mahogany, with a coffee pour. Flavor is a like a thin porter. Coarse and roasty. The roasted malts taste somewhat coarse and primitive. I feel like this is loaded with brown malts. There seems like poor conversion in the malt. Rustic and historic. Brusk. Lightly tangy. Good balance with the hops. A bit of house yeast. A bit peculiar. A peculiar mingling of old recipe, experimentation, and dutch house yeast. Thanks Joe!

Bottle @ Spuyten Duyvil. Poured a mildly hazed brown color with a beige head. Big sweet chocolate aroma with roasted malt coming in the second wave. Mild alcohol and fruit with a little tobacco thrown in. Estery and roasted malt flavor. The malt was light. Good warmth.

Bottle, courtesy jdubfl. Brown pour, ruby red highlights, big fluffy white head and sticky lacing. Nutty roasty nose, some dark fruit, chocolate notes. Pretty flavorful beer: fully creamy roast, coffee, some chocolate and dark fruits, licorice, and a slight tobacco tinge. Full-bodied, balanced, and quite tasty.

courtesy of jdubfl Bottle #97. Pours clear brown with tan head. Taste is malty with good notes of chocolate, some nutty touch with grains followed by good warming alcohol. This is a damn tasty beer with a different approach to the style.

Bottle at Spuyten Duyvil - thanks to JoeMcPhee for sharing with everyone - I didn’t like this beer at first, mostly because it is not what a contemporary American beer drinker expects from an imperial stout - however, once I got past that, it was quite nice - very dark amber, with a soapy lace - very roasty and doughy in the aroma, with some light vegetal character lingering back there - a little bit of spicy character - medium bodied - roasty and lightly vegetal in flavor, with a lot of fruity/berry-like notes, a kiss of smoke - an interesting mix of british and scandinavian brewing styles.

Sampled at the Bockyhorsey tasting. Musty aroma somewhat fermented. Brown body with tan head. Sweeter than most impy stouts and had a carbination coloa to ti. Thanks Rusty.

(750ml bottle, #125 of 696) Pours a dark brown body with a small beige head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, light anise, and caramel. Flavor of roasted malt, chocolate, and caramel.

Bottle at Monk’s Café, Stockholm
Black color; medium head. The aroma is not powerful, there is some chocolate, but it gently develops. It has chocolate, roasted malt and caramel flavor, very well balanced and mixed together, good body, smooth mouthfeel; a touch of malted cereals is fugitive but very pleasant. Correct final bitterness, maybe with light sourness. The alcohol is very well hidden. Complex, noble, excellent.