De Molen Lief & Leed

Brewed by Brouwerij de Molen
Style: Sour Ale/Wild Ale
Bodegraven, Netherlands

Serve in Snifter, Tulip, Tumbler

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Bottle: Served in a Chouffe glass: Rusty copper brown pour. Medium sized, sparkling and right away disappearing creamy off white beige foamy head. It leaves a headless hazy red ish brown colored beer in my glass. When held into a light source it turns into a hazy orange colored beer. Aromas of wild yeast, sour grapes other fruits like green apples, apricot, berries, raisin, caramel, nuts, some sweets like sour sweet candy and something cherry sour sweetness, malts, quite a delicate and complex aroma. Mostly yeasty sour. Flavour is a good mix of sour fruit and yeast: sour and tart tones of wild yeast, berries, tart, grapes, green apples, yoghurt (while not lactic), some straw, hay, malts, wood, light something wild barnyard farmish something, but than again not. Is that part of the complexity? The flavour is also mostly yeast and sour fruit. Very nice. Aftertaste is little sour, light dry, yeasty, some fruit and woody malts. Medium carbo, soft smooth and sour mouthfeel, good medium to lightly fuller body and a texture between watery and creamy. This is not the typical lactic sour or brett sour, sour ale. It’s more while at the same time it’s quite easy. Still it has a complex aroma, flavour and body.

Brown body with visible high carbonation but no foam. The aroma has dull fruit notes with evident sourness. The taste has apple-like acidity with some vinegar background. Dried fruits, pruns, little bit astringent. High bitterness. Body is full with very low carbonation.

Bottle 75 cl. Pours murky hazy brown dark. Kind of ugly looking, reminds me of how barley wine looks. Nice bitterness, fruity, sour, malts. Very good.

Bottle 75 cl. Pours amber in color with a small head. Sour vinegar notes in aroma, some yoghurt and light barnyard in aroma. Tart, a bit of apples and hints of stables in taste. Acid, red berries and wood in aftertaste. Nice sour ale. Slightly tart finish.

Bottle from Cotteridge Wines; clear copper pour with off white head, very tart aroma, very tart taste with some winter berries and a hint of wood.

Tap at Borefts 2012 - Bodegraven. Pours cloudy gold with a light, white cream head. Tart aroma, some soured malts, cherries. Light to medium sweet flavor with big tart cherry character, strong sourness. Light bodied with average carbonation. Pretty sharp to finish with zippy cherries, some funk. Very nice. Clean.

Bottle, bought @ Ølbutikken, Cph.
Pours clear red amber with a large, fizzy off-white head that settles as a 2mm frothy head. Aroma has nice toffee-caramel, light lactic, fruity, light strawberry, funky, soft red apple vinegar. Medium frothy carbonation, quite dry and creamy mouthfeel. Flavour is qutie elegant, caramel, very tart, nice lactic. Perhaps a tad too much vinegar, but it still maintains some balance. Apples, funky, light citric. A nice sour.

ZEBF 13 pours red/brown. no foam. smell is FOB, on the sour side. very dry, sour, meaty. Very nice, way better than the cherry edition !

Appearance: Clear deep reddish color with a small off white head.
Aroma: Sour fruity and some vinegar.
Palate: Medium body. A bit dry, and a light bitterness. Soft carbonation.
Taste: Fresh sour fruity.
Overall impression: Tasty and nice sour ale.
Personal stats: On tap at Ölrepubliken in Göteborg, Sweden.

Sample from tap at Ölrepubliken de Molen tap take over cons 2013-04-12 AR: kriek, tart - great in all the darkness;) AP: purple, no head F: fizzy, tart, black currant, dusty - very refreshing and great!