7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle. Almost black, opague. Rye bread, raisin, oak, vanilla and roast in the complex aroma. Full bodied. Low on carbon. Raisinny sweet flavor with rye bread, roast, hints of smoke, cherry, vanilla and oak. Vinous. This is a nice beer!

5

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Bottled 21-11-2014. Smells like rich chocolate. Tastes chocolate, alcoholic, wood, bitter.. Also a fruity acidity present, red wine BA? Yum!

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

330ml bottle. Pours very dark brown, thin tan head. Aroma is smoky roast. Taste is intensely rich with light smoke, coffee and vinous hints. Light salt and woody notes here & there. Quite complex if given a bit of time to warm up. A good sipper.

7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from de Molen web shop cons 2016-06- 24 Göteborg AR: wee vinos, salty liqurice, dark chocolate AP: ok can write black, wee stouty sand brown lid F: salty liqurice, vinos, to much sea salt, dark chocolate, coffey beans

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle (from koht auction). Pours black. Aroma is alcohol, barrel, smoke, roast, malt, cocoa. Flavor is sour, chocolate, malt, acidic, barrel. Overall: ok, bit too sour and generally disappointing for de molen ba imperial stout.

8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle, dated november 2014, 1,5 years old. Black oily pour. Nice aroma of vanilla, red fruit, thick malt, nice booze and chocolate. Taste of red fruit, vanilla, mild oak, cacao, some booze and a harsh finish. Aging did it good, I like it.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Rauchig malziger Antrunk. Dabei ist das Malz weniger ausgewogen als sonst in De Molen Bieren, eher alkoholisch, hintergründig leicht säuerlich. Holzig, rauchig bleibend, etwas getreidig. Nicht schlecht. 10/8/9/9/9/9

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Barrel aged hybrid of imperial stout and oatmeal stout, vintage bottle from November 2014. Creamy, medium thick, irregular, light mocha beige head, colour is an extremely dark reddish chestnut brown but generally appearing ink black, pours into the glass like motor oil. Rich and mouth-watering bouquet of bitter chocolate, elderberry, soy sauce, toasted brown bread, old furniture and oaky tannins, blackcurrant, subtle coffee grounds, whisky and even some faint peat, red wine, cigar ashes, roasted pine nuts, wet leather, dried sage or thyme, liquorice. Taste kicks off with a weird, tangy sourness, like unripe grapes or blackberries, drying a bit; there is a subdued raisin sweetness as well, but after the sourish phase, it is mostly umami which begins to dominate, with seaweed-, strong soy sauce- and even some dried mushroom-like ’meatiness’. Carbonation is appropriately soft and mouthfeel is utterly viscous and thickly oily, gliding heavily but smoothly over the tongue’s surface; I suspect the oats add to this smooth, velvety feel as they often tend to do in oatmeal stouts. A thick, layered malt body makes up the middle, nutty, toastedly bitter with caramelly sweet accents and notably roasted, ashy bitterness increasing in the end, where it meets a huge amount of drying oak with retronasal vanilla-ish tannins, whisky-like alcohol adding a great deal of warmth (and a light amount of astringency on the root of the tongue) and spicy, peppery hop bitterness well in balance with the thick, ongoing flow of malts, more bitterly roasted than sweet, but a certain caramelly sweetness lingers as well, along with the faded initial berry tartness. As always, having a Molen beer is an experience, every beer they make (especially the big and heavy ones) is a flavour adventure in its own right and this one is no different in that, though I do like some of their other offerings better. This is clearly no beer for beginners, complex, bitter and very umami with that unexpected tartness to it, and a lot of wood - a work of art once again. And considering the other ratings here, I suspect it has benefited a lot from having been cellared for 14 months, yet it is equally clear that it has far from reached the limits of its ageing potential at this point.

7.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Begint heel zuur maar na een poosje zet de koffie, chocolade, vanille en blauwen bessen smaak door. Zware jongen. Backlog from 2015/03/25.