De Molen Man & Macht (Man & Power)

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

Serve in English pint

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(Draught at Café Arendsnest, Amsterdam, 1 Aug 2010) Black colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, roasted nose with coffee, chocolate and dark bread. Roasted, malty taste with notes of coffee, chocolate, dark rye bread and a decent coffee bitterness in a dry finish. Thin body, dry. Very promising aromas, but the taste doesn’t really deliver what expected. Not that it is much different, it’s just less of everything. Enough complaining, it is still a very nice beer ... and highly drinkable.

330ml bottle. Pours a really dark brown, with a beige head. Roasted aromas, malt, ashes, rye bread, hops, mint, chocolate. Light bodied, dry, low bitterness, lively CO2. Surprisingly thin taste, roasted, yeasty, slightly acidic, coffee, ashes. Thin and watery. (2012-03-12)

Bottle: Poured a light black color stout with a large off-white foamy head with good retention and some good lacing. Aroma consists of roasted malt with light dry bitter notes and lightly sweet undertones. Taste is a nice drinkable mix between some roasted malt with light lactose notes and a medium dry finish with light coffee notes. Body is quite light which was to be expected considering the low ABV with some good carbonation. Session-style stout is not a style I usually dig but this was an interesting and very drinkable example.

In short: A light dark beer that tastes like a roasted and chocolaty soda-pop!
How: Bottle 750ml, consumed only weeks after receiving it through private importation but already over one year after bottling date!! :(
The look: Partly translucent brown-black body topped by a very small beige head
In long: Nose is roasted, a bit of cacao powder, a spiciness resembling minty and black pepper. Taste is burnt malts, Melba Toasts™, Coca-Cola™, mint, cocoa nibs, earth, Dr Pepper™, paper, dry grass. Body is fluffy and never watery. Carbonation is a bit too aggressive and it adds to the soda-pop sensation. Kind of a fun little oddity. And yet another generic black & white generic De Molen label with only text, it must be easy to be the person in charge to make the labels at De Molen, the only person with more free time is this Anonymous dude who spends his entire days posting his stupid opinions on every internet web sites and forums.

Bottle kindly shared by gunnar. Gusher. Pours black with an inch thick, foamy brown head. Roasted malts, hops and coffee on the nose. Roasted and light acidic flavor. Light to medium body. Roasted finish.

Bouteille de 750 ml, avec un bouchon de liège, obtenue via Importations Privées Bièropholie. Arôme: Légère odeur de chocolat et de céréales grillées. Apparence: La couleur est noire avce une forte densité de bulle. Présence d’un large col beige mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Léger goût de céréales grillées et de chocolat avec une pointe d’houblons. Courte durée de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps et la texture sont mince. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût légèrement chocolaté. (Rating #4101)

750ml bottle, hazy dark brown hue, with a rocky bubbly tan head, soft yeasty, stewed apple fruity, black chocolate, roasted, dark, toasted, chocolate malt nose with some dark coffee, burnt toast accents and some cocoa powder notes in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a yeasty, mild chocolate icecream, mochaish, black coffee, black, chocolate, roasted, caramelized, toasted malt character with some light burnt brownie, burnt bran muffin, toffeeish flavors, and a roasted coffee bean, burnt dired sultana raisin, fig, burnt toast backbone, with a chocolate praline, fint cocoa powder undertone, leading towards a yeasty, fruity, chocolatey, black coffee, roasty, lingering leafy hop bittering finish.

Bottle shared with esp0r Dark brown, close to black, with a low beige head. Roasted aroma with grass and wood, light taste of coffee, malt, some fruit. Good carbonation, but I think it suffers from the low abv.

Aroma:light nutty and chocolate... Appearance:Dark brown,good head... Flavor:nutty,chocolate,watery....

Bottle looks simple but good. Beer in the glass dark brown, almost black. Small head. Starts mild, almost a bit washy. Gets drier and drier, a bit woody-prickly with a smokey touch. A bit fruity like plums. Finish milder, still modest smokey. Really nice!

Bottle @ Cafe Buitenlust, Oirschot. Black color, beige head. Smell and taste much more fruity then I had expected! Hops, grassy, roasted malts, bitter and a little bit coffee in both smell and taste. Very nicely done considering it’s under 4%ABV.