De Molen Amarillo

Brewed by Brouwerij de Molen
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Bodegraven, Netherlands

Pours a dark orangey yellow with a 2 finger white head. Left a nice ring around my glass.Aroma of citrus hops and some fruit. Nice balance of hops with a light sweetness. Reminds of some west coast IPA’s.

A hazy dark yellow colored beer, with a thick foamy off-white head. It leaves a beautiful laze on the glass. The aroma of hops, fruits and sweet malt. The taste of bitter hops, Americans, with fruits like citrus, lychee and peache. Some malts with some sweet. The aftertaste is long bitter and dry. It stays for awhile.

bottle (thanks Jerohen). brown-red coloured with small head. tastes light sweet, medium bitter. both taste and aroma are complex and remain in your mouth for some time. Excellent beer.

Bottle. Thanks to Marsiblursi. Orange colour with an off-white head. Sweet fruit, marzipan, light hoppiness, caramel, cream, cheese, spices, a bit of alcohol. A bit strange. Too old bottle?

This is very well carbonated as a careful pour produces a tulip filling, five-finger thick head that is a light tan color. The beer is a lightly red stained honey color and shows an almost brilliantly clear, red-orange stained gold color when held up to the light. The aroma smells sticky with hop notes of candied citrus zest, tangelo, lychee, ripe-concentrated berries, but also some herbal notes and a touch of grassiness. The hops really make the aroma exuberantly fruity smelling. Towards the finish, when you really dig around, I get a soft subtle note that smells a bit like ripe cheese; soft but more significant is some malt influence aromatics of toasted crackers, and crushed pale malt. As the beer warms up the nose picks up a bit more funkiness that is sort of musty along with the previously mentioned ripe cheese. Definitely an enjoyable nose to smell for a spell.

Lightly sweet up front, the beer has an ample carbonation that froths up out of the slightly viscous stream of beer as it flows across the tongue. The beer is not heavy, but I do prefer my Double IPAs a touch lighter on the palate (this is still pretty quaffable for a beer of this strength though). In the finish is a lingering hop bitterness as well as a menthol and pine like herbal hop character; A touch of alcohol heat seems to bring out this last note a bit more as well, the sharp menthol especially really lingers on the tongue. The hop influenced fruitiness in the flavor leans more towards bright berry flavors as well as notes of candied orange zest and ample lychee. A touch of grassy hop character becomes noticeable after a bit as does some cracker like malt and of course a more prominent sweet malt character that boosts the fruit-leaning hop notes. The subtle funkiness of the aroma (despite getting even more accentuated with my second pour) really isn’t much noticed in the flavor, it perhaps contributes a touch of phenolic character that mixes with the sharper herbal hop notes and hot higher alcohols.

Where the aroma was all fruit hop character the flavor has a mix of fruit and herbal hop character. This is definitely a nice beer, it can get a little harsh and alcoholic in the flavor at times, but you can’t have everything with a 9.2% abv beer.

Bier Koning. Golden body with large head. Hoppy and sweet nose. Spicy flavour, with sweets coming through. Caramel and malt. Sweet bitter finish.

A true classic from the first sip....great aroma, great flavor, definetely a beer to remember.

Bottle from a trade with bierkoning. Thanks Edo! Deep hazy amber color with a beautiful huge beige head that lasts for a long time. Lovely powerful hoppy aroma with pine needles, some flowers, resinous notes and some citrus as well as some sweet crunchy cookies and some pine nuts. Alcoholic hoppy flavor with pine, some resin, some sweet, slightly bready, malt and some caramel. Medium-bodied, a bit of oiliness in the mouthfeel. Good even though the alcohol isn’t hidden well enough. Later update: The alcohol balances out when the beer gets a bit warmer.