De Molen Amarillo

Brewed by Brouwerij de Molen
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Bodegraven, Netherlands

From tap. Cloudy golden, rich head. Citrus fruity, mild spiced and weed aroma. Distinct peachy Amarillo aroma. Flavour is quite much the same along with tropical fruits.Light hoppy finish and quite dry.

Pours a dark hazy orange color with a thick solid just off-white head. Aroma is very hoppy and complex, with citrus, orange, raisins, honey, licorice and some grass. Also quite intense and slightly overwhelming. Dare I take a nip? Well, I’m glad I did. Wonderfully well balanced taste that is a perfect balance between and extreme hoppy bitterness and some lovely delicate honey like sweetness that makes this very drinkable. Lively carbonation completes this very nice brew.

Bottle. Pours a clear golden beer with an offwhite head. The aroma is hops with amarillo. The flavor is hops with amarillo and grapefruit. The palate is bitter. Overall a really good single hopped beer.

Bottle. Pours a hazy amber with a big, fluffy and creamy beige head. Great lacing. Tart, yet somehow soft aroma; a lot like yoghurt. Notes of hops, malt and yeast in the background. As it warms, the yoghurt-thing diminishes, giving way for the other notes, which is a good thing. Sweetish and tart, fruity and malty flavour with pine hops in the background; the latter coming more out as it warms. Fruity finish with liquorice notes. Dry and a bit of hops. Lingering liquorice-like bitterness. Overall, the yoghurt aroma put me a bit off, but fortunately it diminished, adding an extra point to the aroma score. Could do with a lot more hops, in both aroma and flavour though.11-12-09.

Bottle, 33 cl. Amber coloured, hazy in the glass. Big creamy head, nice. A bit peachlike aroma in the nose, a bit herbal, full aroma, yeasty. tastes bitter,like an IPA indeed, but a bit sweety, and yeastilike dustiness. Not much carbonation. Finish is good. It’s a full-bodied beer but the balance is a bit far away, maybe too much yeast? Otherwise the score should be higher.

Bottle. Golden- orange colour with an off-white head. Aroma is hop, alcohol, grapefruit, malt. Flavour is hop, alcohol, grapefruit, home made bread, resin , malt. Full bodied nice beer.

3rd August 2008. Cloudy orange brown beer. Sweet start leading to sweet orange on top of bitter marmalade. Seamlessly joins to a grapefruit spicy bitter finish.

Draught at Pikkulintu. Orangish amber, quite hazy, with scarsely any head at all. Citrus fruits and flowers in the aroma. Flavour also displays fruity notes, mainly citrus. Carbonation somewhere between light and medium. Quite dry finish.