Hemel & Aarde
Brouwerij De Molen in Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Smoked / Rauch Beer Regular|
Score
7.77
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nathanvc (5932) reviewed Hemel & Aarde from Brouwerij De Molen 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle from Daily Delis, Amsterdam. Cloudy black, stable, foamy, dark beige head. Aroma of beef jerky, soy sauce, black olive, burnt wood, toast, fondant, coffee bean. Taste has sweetish prune & pear in a dark-chocolatey, toasty, nutty malt body with a bitter coffee note and an earthy-umami, smoked-meaty side. Earthy hoppy finish, toasty, quite roasted, lingering salty-smoky meat, tobacco and soft peated whisky-like alcohol. Full body, oily texture, average carbonation. Rich, expressive and elegantly peated.
Koelschtrinker (37410) reviewed Hemel & Aarde from Brouwerij De Molen 2 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Leicht erhöhte Karbonisierung. Rauchig malziger, intensiv würziger Beginn. Schokolade, deutliche Herbe eher im Hintergrund. Mild bitter, weiter schokoladig, deutlich rauchig bleibend. Etwas Alkohol, langer Nachhall. Gut! 10/11/11/12/9/11
Fruitsalad (2292) ticked Hemel & Aarde from Brouwerij De Molen 4 years ago
Klimaet (3586) reviewed Hemel & Aarde from Brouwerij De Molen 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle. Pours a deeep black with a brown thin head. Aromas of soft smoke, leather, stale, slight booze, some sweet dark fresh fruits. Pretty funky. Taste is quite sweet, leather, stale and subtle smoke aswell. Very sweet dry Woody finish.
Bierkoning (17781) reviewed Hemel & Aarde from Brouwerij De Molen 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Corked bottle 263 of 360, 9,5% ABV. Almost pitch black and opague, small head. Furiously peated aroma, hiding the malt, licorice and dark chocolate somewhat. Very full bodied, thick mouthfeel, like fluid bread. Low on carbon. Dark chocolate, loads of peat, lapsang souchong tea, chocolate cake, culminating in an almost endless aftertaste that also has licorice. Should gain in complexity and roundness by further cellaring, preferably in whisky casks. So young, so sweet, so pretty, so tough.....
Wendigo (4608) reviewed Hemel & Aarde from Brouwerij De Molen 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Malty peaty aroma, chocolate, light coffee, caramel. Tastes the same as aroma, light sweet, medium bitter. Full body, malty peaty bitter sweet finish. Good.
fombe89 (7581) reviewed Hemel & Aarde from Brouwerij De Molen 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On Tap @Bier & Big End of Winter Festival, Eindhoven 08/12/2018 Color negro espuma beige, aromas a cafe sabor licoroso cafe, notas tostadas cuerpo sedoso.
djd07 (26386) reviewed Hemel & Aarde from Brouwerij De Molen 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured at Shelton Festival, black with medium tan head that lasts. The aroma is roast, smoke, peat, ash, cocoa. Similar flavors to nose, boozy, dry finish, very good.
Alengrin (10989) reviewed Hemel & Aarde from Brouwerij De Molen 5 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Classic Molen imperial stout, brewed with peat-smoked Bruichladdich whisky malt; had one of the barrel aged versions long ago but apparently the basic beer escaped me so far, so here we are, rating it from a (older) bottle bought from Willems in Grobbendonk. Regularly shaped, initially dense and creamy, thickly lacing, mocha-beige head, quickly breaking and eventually all but disappearing, over a black beer with hazy deep ruddy-burgundy edges. Intense bouquet of burnt peat and bags full of moist peat, so peat in a 'real' and natural kind of way (not the sharp iodine-like smell many peated whisky barrel aged beers have - using peated malts seems a better and more tasteful way to incorporate this aspect in a beer, it seems), draped over unsugared black chocolate, burnt branches, salmiak, ristretto, leather, old liquorice sticks, soy sauce, beef stock, charred meat, dried plums, pipe tobacco. Restrained dried plum sweetishness with a very deep sourish undercurrent and an outspoken, soy sauce-like umami edge, bit gravy-like even but making room for a profound black toasted bread maltiness, toasted nuts, 'fondant' chocolate and coffee, with a softly carbonated, very oily mouthfeel, yet somehow feeling less 'viscous' than I was expecting. Strong 'wet peat' effect retronasally, accentuating both roasty coffeeish bitterness and 'black peppery' hoppiness; all of this is soon drowned in a strong, whisky-like booziness, but still the toasted nuttiness, liquorice, dried plum and black roasted meat effects survive. A tad too boozy for my personal liking - even for a 10% ABV stout - but in any case a bold, in-your-face, uncompromising classic De Molen stout, which is never a bad thing, even if I had better from them in this range.
Erzengel (15215) ticked Hemel & Aarde from Brouwerij De Molen 6 years ago