De Molen Rasputin

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

Serve in Snifter

AROMA: first barnyard, cheese then chocolate APPEARANCE: black, clear, no head at all TASTE: medium sweetness PALATE: medium body, sticky, flat, bitter, OVERALL: completely flat, chocolate is quite overwhelming, good body despite flatness. May need another sample.

Black beer with reddish highlights, transparent I think but very dark. Weak head and no carbonation. Muddy milk chocolate dominates the smell, mixed with subtle toffee and caramel. Also coffee and a flowery bitterness. A touch of alcohol to remind us there’s 10% in there. Also a kind of farm smell: leathery earthy, dark fruit... very subtle. Taste is rather watery with a slicing bitterness surrounded by sweetness. Leathery metallic feel with some floweriness. The stoutness more in the bitterness as the coffee/toffee part is very subtle. Well balanced water-sweet-bitterness although the wateriness can be a bit overbearing. The finish is remarkable, evolving from a coffee bitterness into a grapefruit-like acidness.

Taste is creamy chocolate, coffee, charred wood and nuts. Huge head when poured. Excellent.

Humongus head. Dark. Thick. Very small glass. Which I didnt hold against them.

bottled, at zly casy in prague on a very cold evening. a deep black with an immense beige head. full aroma of plum jam, vanilla cream, cocoa powder; warming with plenty of burnt bitterness coming through as it warmed

draft at Blue Monk, Buffalo. Deep dark black pour. pretty heavy roast in aroma, chocolate with light coffee notes, higher carbonation. Pretty heavy roasted malt presence, somewhat boozy, intensely flavored.Very good stout

Deep brown from the tap with a thick cream head. Aroma of caramel and chocolate. Caramel and black toast empower this beer. Good caramel and some dark fruit in the finish.

The aroma is very nutty and coffee like flavour . Lightly hopped beer for a imperial stout .excellent carbonation on the tongue . Outstanding .