De Molen Kopi Loewak Coffee Stout

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

I have had this both on tap and from (various) bottles, even the newly released 33 cl version. I pours a thick caffe frappe black with the nicest of heads. Realease the coffee aroma with a bang. Tempting to get a spoon and eat it... Although it’s pretty high in alcohol it drinks very easily. A textbook example of a delicately yet dangerously balanced brew! It is a knock-out beer. Has to be in my top-3 for this year (new releases, that is).

18 cl. bottle @ Hj Hansen, Odense. Bottle # 528. Pours black with a surprisingly large, full and fluffy beige head and lacings. Nose is chocolate, ashes and lots of cold coffee. Lively carbonation - full and smooth palate.Taste has a a heavy bitterness from both roasted coffee and hops. Vaguely sticky and oily. Warmth. Long end . . Nice.

It’s a black beer with a little red hue along the sides and bottom of the glass. The head is creamy, light-brown and lasting. The aroma has intense notes of coffee, roasted malt, light ashes and grapefruit. The flavor has a light to moderate sweetness and a roasted bitterness, that is rather strong. The notes are bitter coffee, hints of grapefruit, light ashes and even if I really like it, I also think it’s bordering to be too intense.

Bottle 18 cl. Numbered 53. Pretty heavy carbonation compared to likewise coffee stouts is the first impression I get when uncapped. The pour is black but hard to see because the head is soooo heavy and thick with quite huge bubbles and cappuchino colour. The nose is strong coffee with some laqurice and malts. The taste is a bit sourly surpricingly. Its strong and heavy with alcohol notes and coffee with bitter aftertaste. The palate is mild but alcohol-sticky.

Black with a disappearing tan head. Strong aroma of cold coffee and ashtray, with a hint of chocolate. Flavour is much nicer, with good coffee notes, and dark chocolate. Rather dry

Tasted at the first, great, Borefts Beer Festival 2009 @ De Molen. Black colored brew. Aroma is coffee, espresso beans, sweet malty aroma. Nice espresso flavor, dark chocolate. Very low carbonation. Intense bitterness, one to sip.

Bottle. Very hing and long lasting light brown thick creamy head. Very dark brown, almost black, blody. Cocoa caramel coffee spicy aroma. Relatively bitter and sour cocoa caramel flavor with a low carbonation and a long bitter aftertaste.

Bottle (18 ml) at home. Black - big fluffy offwhite head. Aroma: High coffee, light dysty, burned, dryness. Taste: High coffee, burned, wooden, chocolate, herbal, light vegetables, cocoa, dryness finish. Nice.