De Molen Eiken Hel & Verdoemenis

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

Serve in Snifter

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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.

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!

A pitch black colored beer, with a thick foamy beige head. The aroma of coffee malts with dark fruits, chocolate and notes of wood. The taste of coffee, with chcoclate, dark fruits, some wood. Very good balance. A nice combination of bitter and sweet. The aftertaste is some sweet moving to bitter, with notes of wood.

Bottle. Black with a minimal head. Wonderful aroma of chocolate, coffee and licorice. The flavor contained the same. Also "milk", dark berries and wood. No carbonation, the body was groovy. Nicely balanced with an aftertaste that was a long, sweet and bitter. A beer for lovers of life.

Denna ölen är näst intill fantastisk! Doften: Len, mjölkig och med en aning hetta Smaken: Fantastisk fyllig, söt, härliga toner av “det vanliga” Härligt välbalanserad och ingen tecken till alkoholen jag hittade i doften. Mumsig eftersmak. Det är bara att njuta!

Black with a tinybeige head. Sweet aroma with dark chocolate, burned malt and espresso. Flavour was huge with burned malt, dark chocolate, wood, espresso and cognac. Full bodied. A master piece! Once again a brilliant beer from Menno.

Bottle on the train to Huddersfield, with Craig.Opaque black with practically no head at all. Full bodied. Malty aroma with lots of roasted notes, chocolate, some vanilla and oak. Sweet but well balanced taste. Wonderful !!

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.

(Bottled, rated 2011-11-26) Almost black with no head. Softly licoricey nose with vanilla and roasted maltiness. Lots of malt, vanilla and licorice in the flavor, with sweet coffee and balanced roasted bitterness. Some tannins from the barrel add complexity. Quite full body, almost no CO2, sticky but not cloying. This is a beer you run into maybe once a year - excellent stuff!

Bottle at a tasting: no head, no carbonation, bready toasty malt, rich dark chocolate, brown sugar, mocca, wet wood, burnt caramel, viscous, a bit of alcohol, a bit af ash, great imperial stout.