De Molen 1914 Triple Stout SSS

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

Bottle. Pours black with a small, fizzy, off-white head, mostly diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (molasses, burnt grain, chocolate, coffee), average hops (flowers, perfume), heavy yeast (leather) with notes of prune, wood, and tar. Full bodied, oily texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Average duration, light sweetness, moderate acidity and bitterness.

Bottled at Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm. Cloudy near black, rich creamy head. Rich and lovely aroma of strawberries, licorice and tobacco. Soft and gentle, perfumy with grainy dough. Incredibly edgeless for a 10% beer with warming alcohol slowly oncreeping. Minty finish with licorice bitterness. A superb beer with lovely depth and drinkability!

Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of jbrus. Slightly hazy reddish brown with a rough, off-white head. Sweetish burned malt in the nose. Quite full-bodied, sweet licorice, vanilla and burned malty accents. Lightly malt bitter finish. 291208

Brown wit a medium beige head. Aroma was sweet with roasted malt and dark bitter chocolate. Flavour was sweet with plenty of roasted malt, chocolate and coffee notes. Finis.hed sweet and nice. I love it!

Bottle. Hazy orange red coloured with floaties and a medium sized off white head. Light roasted aroma of nuts, coffee, hops and pine needles. Lght roasted flavour of chocolate, nuts and coffee with otes of hops and pine needles. Roasted and hoppy finish.

75 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a lot of small yeast floaties and a minimal tan head. Roasted malty, light coffee and yeasty aroma. Sweet malty with a ditsinct mix of coffee and liqourice flavour. Smooth and mild mellow yeasty. Finish is smooth hoppy and fruity. Nice one.

Feb. 08 bottling. Deep garnet with a lingering tan head. Big chocolatey coffee aroma. Medium body with soft carbonation. Rich chocolate flavors with medium roast coffee. This one is better at room temp than chilled.

Bottle No. 311. Soft little plifft as the cork is wrested from the bottle. Brown colored liquid with a very ruddy hue when held up to the light. moderate stable head, with a thick sheet of lace. pleasant sweet stout aromas. Mocha, light roasted malt, hints of spice and graham crackers. LIghter oily feel with just a little zip of effervescence to keep it lively. Malt and graham cracker sweetness in the front. Oak and mild bourbon vanilla in the middle. Spicy and somewhat earthy hops late. Cocoa liqueur and roasted malt in the linger. After shoveling snow most of the afternoon I think I picked the right brew to top it off. A bit sharp in some places, but there are many enjoyable feature in this one.