De Molen Hel & Verdoemenis (Bordeaux)

Brewed by Brouwerij de Molen
Style: Imperial Stout
Bodegraven, Netherlands

Serve in Snifter

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UPDATED: DEC 25, 2010 Borefts Beer Festival 2010, on tap. Notes of coffee, fruit, high impressions. Nice stout.

Bottle @ meeting. Aroma is huge peat, leather, wine, red fruit, roasted malt, liquorice. Big big big! Flavour is same with more. Awesome.

Bottle, thanks Ken. Pours dark brown, with no head. Aroma is roasted malt, dark fruit, red wine, chocolate, molasses, and alcohol. Flavor is roasted malt, red wine, chocolate, wood, and alcohol. No carbonation, medium body. Ends dry and a little bitter.

Bottle, 190/600, 18cl, at Patricks. A beer without head, just some brown bubbles, a few. Oily, black body. Loads of coffee on the nose, a solid dose of alcohol too. Chocolate and bonfire blends in. Very oily in the mouth, but not thick, quite flat. Warming and dry as well. The flavor is burnt, with lots of coffee and chocolate, some sugary sweetness and a good dash of alcohol. Some wine notes too. Lasting finish with a good alcohol burn and a solid coffee flavor. A wonderful one, not a beer to drink a lot of, but a nip size bottle is just fine. 101110

Sample at Borefts Beer Festival 2010. Pours a pitch black beer with a beige head. The aroma is roasted, licorice, coffee, wood and vanilla. The flavor is close to the nose. The palate is roasted with some sweetness. Overall a really good beer.

Bottle nr 190.Pours jet black with almost no head.Aroma of higher alcohol, coffee , dark chocolate ,smoke, wood and licorice.Flavor is sweet , vinous and malty with lots of woody notes and coffee.Medium oily body,soft carbonation.Very nice.

De molen hell and damnation Bordeaux barrel. Small nip bottle consumed at de molen... Pours a still dark portlike stout pour with a lighter brown fringe and a quickly dissipating head that evolves to non- existence... Sweet anise, woody sweet, and toffee notes similar to misto overall from an aroma perspective with light red fruit surfacing softly... Tastes more woody with a spiciness and a pervading sense of smokiness. Lighter bodied wine notes with an abundance of tart fruitiness not necessarily resembling red wine. Some booziness in the finish and a tad thin. 8/4/7/3/15

Pours black with a tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, chocolate, smoke, oak and light redwine. Flavour is roasted malt, chocolate, liquorish and light smoke.

Bottle from Bierkoning. Total black body with no trace of a head. Nose of malts, chocolate and caramel. Taste is similar, starting with nice malts and caramel and toffee. Then deep, dark chocolate. Very smooth and creamy. Then gets quite bitter and sweet. Really nice experience, as always with De Molen.

Small bottle @ home. No carbonation. Winelike mouthfeel. There is some barrel flavour present not as distinct as the other barrel aged versions which I prefer. A little carbonation on this one would have made a difference maybe...