De Molen Eiken Hel & Verdoemenis

Formerly brewed at Brouwerij de Molen
Style: Imperial Stout
Bodegraven, Netherlands

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle from De Bierkoning. Black with no traces of head. Almost like motor oil. Wonderful chocolate and vanilla aroma, also mildly roasted coffee. Chcolate, vanilla, good roasted flavours, a subtle fruitiness towards the finish. Smooth as velvet and flat. A masterpiece.

Thanks Patrik! Pours inky and pretty black. No chance of getting a head on this. The aroma is bonfire, bitter chocolate, peanuts...a big complex nose. Superviscous...coffee burn, rich chocolate...mouth-coating. There is some rum character, as opposed to cognac. This is a crazy beer, so thick. You get alcohol late and it cuts through - only slightly - the thick malts. It actually tastes quite nutricious, with a big fat oak finish. Astonishingly drinkable, as the heat is muted.

2009 Bottle, thanks to oh6gdx (Patrik) for sharing! Inky, viscous, luscious, bloody black pour. The aroma is hellishly good and from the bowels of the earth with magma, ashes from a hellfire, carbon, quartz, the whole molten core. Thick flat and perfect palate. The chocolate in the flavors are up-front, powerful, and extraordinary whereas the coffee flavors are very subtle. It’s like the heaven in balance to the devilish aroma. The smooth creamy palate carries every molecule of this elixir to every cell of my body. It’s like drinking chocolate that has been filtered through carbon, smooth as mother’s milk. This is Haute Bier!

Bottle at Københavnske Øldage 2009
Black color, no head. The aroma is a bit papery, breadish, with light vanilla and cognac. Good body, excellent mix of chocolate, roasted malt, cookies, sweetness, cognac, sweet nuts, light alcohol, light coffee. Well balanced, yet powerful. Great!

Bottled 33cl (brewed 22.1.2009, bottle #413). Courtesy of bierkoning, ty Edo! Opaque black, head vanishing more or less. Aroma is very roasted with black chocolate, licorice, cocoa powder and coffee. Quite flat, oily and smooth mouthfeel. The first impression is licorice and vanilla. Alcoholic with intensive roasted flavors. Long roasted aftertaste. I can’t trace cognac, but maybe it gives an extra alcoholic kick to normal H&V. Very good beer, which probably gets even better after one or two years.

From bottle 75 cl yesterday @ Alvinne. Black color, with almost no brown head. Aroma strong roasyted malts, coffee, chocolate, spices and wood. Medium to full body. Taste start with some sweet notes, woods cognac-barrels, chocolate. Sweetbitter ending.

Bottle 33cl.
Clear dark black color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, burnt, chocolate, spruce, wood, bourbon. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is syrupy, carbonation is flat. [20090516]

Bottled (from Ölkonsortiet, Aalborg). Pitch black colour, not much head. Aroma is coffee, liquorice, some caramel malts as well as mild sherrylike notes. Flavour is coffee, liquorice, toffee, smoke and roasted malts. All in a good balance. Yet another very balanced and pleasant brew from De Molen.

Pours as used motoroil, flat as a pancake; beer looking as treacle syrup. Complex nose, riddled with ethanol and fusels. Some stout-like touches, but especially rich sweetish alcohol and fuselflavours. Brandy or rum-like, woody. Lots of incense, bitter coffee arriving retronasal. Slick, oily, but not really full-bodied. All carbonation left during the oaking, it would seem. I wonder whether all this syrupy sweetness is all purely alcohol-linked. Hell and damnation doesn’t seem so intolerable after all, provided an oaken coffin. Pity there’s absolutely no saturation left.

On tap at Copenhagen Beerfestival. It’s a pitch black beer that pours almost headless, just a thin film as head. Coffee-burnt, almost charcoal-like nose. Pleasant sweetness in the mouth, well suited for this full-bodied and warming beer. Dark chocolate and lots of coffee blend in, and in the background there’s some dark dried fruits. roasted bitterness and alcohol warmth in the finish. Definately not a thirst-quencher, but as a sipper it will probably do well. Maybe a bit sweet, but strong enough to cope with it. (090616)