De Molen Engels

Brewed by Brouwerij de Molen
Style: Bitter
Bodegraven, Netherlands

Cask, BSF at the GBBF. Caramel color with a bit of haze, white head. Honey, ripe grapefruit, musky/melon. Chewy citrus hop pellet flavor, nice lemon honey sweetness and brisky hops, but the husky veg quality of the hops is kind of off-putting.

Draugt beer, third pint, at the Belgian & Dutch Bar, BSF at GBBF 08. Cloudy, orange body topped by fragile bubbles. Marked fruity smell followed by sweet late fruits in flavour. Finish off with a few vague bitter endnotes. Thin to medium palate (06.08.2008).

At the brewery pub. A hazy orange colored beer, with a thick foamed white head. It leaves a beautiful lace on the glass. The aroma is fruity, grassy and a lot of hops. The taste has a good hop bitterness of the dry hopping. There are citrus notes and some other fruits like orange. A very good refreshing beer.

Bottle courtesy Absumaster. Pours malty, a bit funky smelling white parachute head that leaves but a littl lace. Light body underneath that has an understated bitterness to it, understated carbonation, medium mouthfeel with some mouth tingling. Drinkable, drying aftertaste.

Cask, in a local squatbar in Amsterdam. Hard to say anything bad about any Molenbeer, over an over. Orange coloured, more to a pale ale than a bitter, (too) cloudy, taste of lemongrass, abricot. Hoppy but not extremely bitter. slighly watery. Great beer

Cask, GBBF 08. Hazy gold with a small head. Aromas are citrus with ginger spices and yeast. Flavours are wheat and spices with winter fruit.

(Cask at GBBF, London, 5 Aug 2008) Cloudy copper colour with brief, white head (leaning in the mire direction). Fruity, yeasty nose with apricots and dried fruit. Fruity, yeasty taste with notes of apricots and a nice, dry bitterness in the finish. Rather far from an English bitter, but still an interesting beer.

Cask at the GBBF 2008, gravity dispense. Cloudy golden colour, moderate head. Nice fruity / berries aroma. Berries in the flavour too (blackcurrants, boysenberries) with a moderate but nice hoppy finish.