De Molen Hemel & Aarde (Heaven & Earth) Bruichladdich Barrel

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

Serve in Snifter

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Pre-ZBF ... black ... soft roast ... chocolate malt nose ... very soft sweet roast ... loads of whiskey ... not working for me ... but lovely silky mouth feel

Rating 700 - and to think, I started this journey only yesterday... walking uphill... in the snow... both ways... Bottle #1228, brewed Dec ’09. Nice punch in the mouth - burnt coffee lingers.

Bottle @ home Pitch Black pour with a little brown foam for a head peated and roasted malt aromas burst out and are complimented by a whisky and a chocolate smell the taste is a whole journey by it self leading with a strong malt roasted malt bitterness passing through chocolate flavors with an abysmal finish that turns sweet starts with coffee and ends with with a spicy whisky burning sensation that goes on for a long time the body is full the texture is all nice and creamy carbonation is flat an overly complex and sublime brew !!!

Nip bottle. Thanks to alex again for the comparison... Pours with major head. Liquid is deep reddish brown almost chocolate. Topped with a heavy fluffy deeper tan head... Peaty with iodine and charred malts. Light on the cocoa and chocolate... Flavors are more of the same with more o a harsh iodine finish. Not as controlled or enjoyable as the base beer. Mouthfeel was a little too lively and effervescent in terms of body.

No head on this pitch black body. Smokey wood, honey, brown caramel. Smooth sweetness, very much smokey and burned, milk chocolate. Milky texture. Ending is nice and well developed, revealing some yeast character. Hotness from the alcohol. More refined, smokey and characterful than the ’normal’ Hemel & Aarde, but also more boozy (than I remember). Well made imperial stout. (33cl bottle, bought at the brewer)

Bottle, a 12% version bottled 08/12/2011. Pitch black with a minimal porous brown head that dissolves into a ring. Aroma: peaty, chocolate mousse, licorice, tar. Taste: chocolate pralines, licorice, peat, some smoke, soy sauce, toffee, the alcohol is hardly noticeable. Full-bodied, thick, still. Couldn’t live up to the regular H&A, but still great stuff.

Reads 12 % abv. on the bottle. Pour opaque black, with just a slight reddish rue around the edge, and no head at all. Aroma is quite smokey and roasted of peat, coffee, licorice, port, wood and whiskey. Taste is a little sweet up front, with a dry, bitter and roasted finish. Oily and a little watery body, with very little carbonation. This is quite a bit more boozy than the original, also there’s quite a lot more heat.

33 cl bottle. Bottled on 08.12.2011. BBE +25 years.
Originally rated on 20100513. (9+4+8+4+17)
Pours pitch black color with almost no head at all, small beige foam on the sides. The bottle was filled up to it’s cap.
The nose is first filled with smooth bourbon barrel notes, lots of dark roasted malts follow, some faint tobacco notes, peat, mild tar and ash dry chocolate. Some vanilla comes through also. Flavor of ash dry dark chocolate, roasted malts, peat, bourbon, vanilla notes, mild tar, caramel notes and some mocha. Nice warm alcohol burn finishes the dry and a bit bitter chocolaty palate. Very complex, slow-drinking beer. Excellent.
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2006 Bottle thanks to Santa/fonefan! Dark black pour, no carbonation and a mild smoky scotch aroma. Flavor is peat, mellow scotch, slightly sweet and left an aftertaste of slick lingering smoke. Very well done.

Bottle shared by DalzAle CLever and Armin. Pours oily black and with hardly any head. Aroma is nice peat smoke chocolate. Taste is more smokey peat and wood. Palate is full and slick with a sticky dry finish. Very nice.

A bit of a gusher, shared by Armin. Great peat, smoke and scotch nose. Chocolate and warm wood linger - a really nice aftertaste. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone