De Molen Engels

Brewed by Brouwerij de Molen
Style: Bitter
Bodegraven, Netherlands

330ml bottle (Cracked Kettle, Amsterdam)
Slightly hazy yellowy orange, frothy head lasts a while. Refreshing crisp aroma, light malts and delicate hops - between a wit and a light saison in its citrussy spiciness. Refreshing carbonation. Retronasally a little soapy. Quite a thin palate, again harking back to the witty/saison feel earlier. However, as always, I’m not rating to style, I’m rating on how happy my gob is to have this liquid pass through it. The malts are very light, and the bitterness is quite grassy, and again soapy. Crisp and refreshing, but not what I’m looking for most of the time.

0,33 l bottle. It is a very deliciuos beer. Cloudy golden body whit a nice white head. Complex aroma of hop resin with wild fruits. The taste is all about the hops, resin with a hint of caramel, some fruity notes. Fine aftertaste of hop.

Bottled 0.7 liter, a gift from Menno. The cork popped before i had even removed the metal wire. Cloudy golden coloured, big lasting white head. Hoppy nose, very fruity, some yeast. Hoppy flavour, bitter, yeasty. Bitter finish. Pretty solid thirst quencher. But it doesn’t really taste like a bitter to me, it’s more a saison as mentioned by others.

Bottle. Hazy amber with a fierce, but stable off-white head. Good citrus aroma and flavours, quite a bit of orange zest. Decent bitterness. Very good, but far from a bitter. Tastes like a good saison.

Cask at GBBF with the party bus boyz. Alround rating: Very good pale ale here, balanced, citrus, biscuity malts, grassy hop. Excellent stuff.

Cask, BSF at the GBBF. Caramel color with a bit of haze, white head. Honey, ripe grapefruit, musky/melon. Chewy citrus hop pellet flavor, nice lemon honey sweetness and brisky hops, but the husky veg quality of the hops is kind of off-putting.

Draugt beer, third pint, at the Belgian & Dutch Bar, BSF at GBBF 08. Cloudy, orange body topped by fragile bubbles. Marked fruity smell followed by sweet late fruits in flavour. Finish off with a few vague bitter endnotes. Thin to medium palate (06.08.2008).

At the brewery pub. A hazy orange colored beer, with a thick foamed white head. It leaves a beautiful lace on the glass. The aroma is fruity, grassy and a lot of hops. The taste has a good hop bitterness of the dry hopping. There are citrus notes and some other fruits like orange. A very good refreshing beer.