De Molen Kopi Loewak Coffee Stout

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

Tiny bottle at home. Pours a clear dark brown with a big beige head. Sweet with some dryness. Aromas of coffee and old hops. Also some dark chocolate, caramel and residual sugars. Almost full bodied. Overcarbonated. Slightly sticky mouthfeel. Dry finish with more coffee aromas.

18 cL bottle. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Distinct coffee aroma and chocolate. Solid body, hard roasted malt and coffee, flavoured into a smooth and roasted finish.

(Bottled) Almost black with a huge, tanned and bubbly, lasting head. Aroma of roasted, smooth coffee and some fermented fruit. Flavor is quite burned-malty with roasted coffee, harsh bitterness, some sourness, and a touch of chocolate. Medium body, foamy carbonation, somewhat thin. Certainly not my beer: too burned, acidic and harshly bitter.

Draught @ Borefts Beer Festival 2009 - De Molen.
Clear dark black brown color with a average to large, creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is light heavy malty, dark roasted, roasted, coffee, dusty coffe, coffee filter when making good coffee in the morning ;O) Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long long duration. This beer is all about a high quality coffee, both in aroma and flavor. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20091030]

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.