De Molen Rasputin

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

Bottle courtesy of Crushinat0r, found at Julio’s. Aroma of roast primarily, and malt. Black with big bubbly white head. Significant lace. A good above-average mouthfeel. Nice drinkability. This beer is a good product for the style, but it does have lots of competition these days

Bottle: The aroma is very fruity with cherry and plum. The aroma also has some notes of chocolate and faint roast. Pours a "dark" brown with some orange highlights, lots of sediment, and a large soapy beige head that leaves behind some clumpy lacing. It’s a nice looking beer, but the one category I do rate for style is appearance, and this does not look like an Imperial Stout. The flavor is very fruity with plum and cherry. Moderate chocolate in the middle. There is some light-moderate roastiness along with some light citrus hoppiness. Absolutely no sign of 10.7% alcohol. Seems more like a Baltic Porter than Imperial Stout. Medium bodied with a soft creamy mouthfeel.

750 bottle that after4ever bought for us to share at the Uber Tavern in Seattle, Washington. Bottle #403. Pour is black with ruby highlights with no head to speak of. Aroma of sweet prunes, raisins and roasted coffee. Some grassy tobacco in there as well. Taste is the fruit sweetness and acidic tartness of the raisins. On top of those flavors is a sharp milk sour taste. The roasted coffee flavor exists throughout and is nicely balanced with the other flavors. Only minor present alcohol.

Bottle at home - shared with Mette. Black - light brown head. Coffee, dryness, lactose, tobacco, plastic, yeasty, vegetables, berries, licorice, dark bread. I gets better 30 minutes after pouring..... but it still have this strange plastic and yeast taste.

RBSG ’08: Poured a light amber color with a beige head. The aroma and flavor were kind of dull to me with the biggest thing to stand out just being a mild roast.

Bottled at Ølbaren, Copenhagen Transparently black, brief head. Unusual aroma of dusty strawberries and tobacco. There’s sweet malt and somelight coffee. Surprisningly slim with lots of ester. Gets more comlicated as it goes: salty chocolate with candied strawberry and bubblegum. Finishes with salty licorice. Interesting, but complicated.

from crackedkettle.com - dark black colour with a poor head retention; perfumy nose, malt and yeast with chocolate in the background; oily and sticky, verybitter, some astringence; very long chocolatey and bitter finish - powerful but lacking a bit of balance

brewed 12-14-07; bottled 2-4-08 batch 524. dark mahogany nearly opaque pour w/ a thick tan well laced head. Very hoppy aroma definite saz. Some light almost black liquorice notes coming through and light chocolates, pretty mellow. Good fluffy full pal, well coated and lightly creamy. Flavor is nice.. mostly saaz hops over a light chocolate and a bit of a burnt coffee taste quite roasty, doesn’t seem that big.. has a warm swallow. Pretty good stuff.