De Molen / Mikkeller Mikkel & Menno Weizenbock

Formerly brewed at Brouwerij de Molen
Style: Weizen Bock
Bodegraven, Netherlands

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Weizen

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Bottle 777. I had contemplated keeping this for some reason but thought that this was only a number. Hopefully fortuitous, but no really big deal. The nose is crisp with the dry hopping of the said amarillo, simcoe, chinook and cascade. The appearance in the glass is cloudy with a patina of creaminess in the head. There is a certain unfermented graininess in the taste and the mouthfeel is slightly thin notwithstanding the ABV. A good beer but it does not present to me that it is a weizenbock given the absence of fruity esters that should define this beer.

Brown bottle, 330 ml, lot 02.01, number 0557, brewed on November 4 2008, bottled on December 5 2009, best before December 5 2014, via Importations Privées Bièropholie, savoured April 23 2012; eye: bronze, clear, nice effervescence, voluminous beige head made up of rather large bubbles, light lacing; nose: hops, malt, light spices, caramel; mouth: hops, malt, light spices, light ash, alcohol, caramel, slight fruity, finale in malt with light presence of ash, medium body, almost no carbonation, lightly bitter, slightly sweet, slick texture; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 330 ml, lot 02.01, numéro 0557, brassée le 4 novembre 2008, embouteillée le 5 décembre 2009, meilleure avant le 5 décembre 2014, via Importations Privées Bièropholie, savourée le 23 avril 2012; œil : bronze, limpide, bonne effervescence, mousse beige volumineuse formée de bulles plutôt grosses, légère dentelle; nez : houblon, malt, léger épices, caramel; bouche : houblon, malt, léger épices, léger cendré, alcool, caramel, très léger fruité, finale en malt avec légère présence cendré, corps moyen, presque aucune carbonatation, légèrement amère, très légèrement sucrée, texture coulante; en résumé : correct

330ml bottle pours a hazy golden orange color with a finger of white head that leaves some spots of lacing on the glass. Aroma is light fruits and citrus hops. Taste is malty sweet with some fruit and a bold citrus hop bitterness in the finish. Flavors are well balanced with a medium body and light carbonation. A nicely done wheat bock which is about what I expected from this brewery.

AROMA:Big malt, some fruity hops and a touch of Belgian horse blanket. APPEARANCE: cloudy amber brown with a huge 1" orange head TASTE:Whammy malt with caramel, toffee. Hops bitter in the finish, try and balance huge malt and don’t quite make it. PALATE: medium to full bodied with a creamy mouth feel.Softly carbonated. Bitter in the finish from the ton of hops trying to balance the malt OVERALL: a monster beer for a wheat beer, i have never had one so malty. big everything like Mikkeller is famous for, and very good beer.. not really on style. Makes it’s own style. Monster wheat bock.

Very malty smelling, yeasty, very little spice like cloves. There is a lot more of a hop aroma then what I’m used to in any Wiezen. Not so much pine, but more of that kind of ripe fruit aroma. Mostly yeast and a brown sugary malt aroma. Wow, there’s a lot of Hop present in this one, it’s not super palate wrecking but it definitely took me by surprise. Body is kinda light and crisp. The malt is pretty big in there too, burnt sugar kinda taste that mixes really well with the hop bitterness. Very small amount of yeasty fruit ester, like that banana taste, but its super muted. Its more the toasty character of the malts and the hops though that you get. I can’t taste any alcohol in it.

33cl bottle - 2009 vintage. Pours amber orange with tiny sticky beige head. Aroma is orange peel, some funky barnyard botes, grassy, bread. Taste is warm and nicely bitter. The bready notes come back. No carbonation level at all. Easy drinkable.

33 cl bottle @ Pikkulintu.
Rated on 20110729.
Murky orange colour with large head. Aroma of paste, fruits, wheat and distant banana. Flavour has berries, apricot and some banana. Palate has turned a bit cardboard-like even though the bbe is marked 30.07.2014.
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Thanks to bu11zeye for sharing this bottle. The beer pours a dark amber color with an off-white head. The aroma is heavy on the wheat and caramel malt with some banana notes mixed in. The flavor is more of the same. I get a lot of toffee and caramel, with some banana and spice notes mixed in. The pepper and clove notes are very nice and mix well with the other flavor components. Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.

Bottled. An unclear brown beer with a huge lazing orangey head. The aroma has notes of dusty hops, caramel, wheat, and a bit of bread. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, alcohol, malt, wheat, and dusty hops, leading to a dry wheaty and alcoholic finish.

Bottle courtesy of HenrikSoegaard cons 2011-08-19 Göteborg Brewed 24 June 2009, bottle 917 / 1152 AR: rich fruitness, black cherries, plume cake, hoppy caramel AP: hazy mber/ruby red body, high organic light brown alive head F: great bitterness, a bit peaty, metallic - coppar, a bit sour - feels that this wasen’t the intation, peppary, vinos, dryness and bitterness in the finish

Bottle @ Home, # 461.Pours hazy golden with a creamy offwhite head. Aroma of malt, yeast, vanilla, sweet fruity hops. Taste is malt, caramel, fruity hops, melon and pineapple, grapefruitlike bitterness in the finish. Medium body, soft carbonation. 140811