De Molen Rasputin

Pours a reddish brown with a tan head. Aroma is caramel, malt, roast, smoke. Flavor is earthy, caramel, chocolate, bread, yeasts,. Interesting Imperial Stout, a little different than most.

750 ml bottle. Pours black with a rather big brown head. Rosted, smokey, hoppy and chocolaty. A bit to short lasting taste to get real top grades.

Bottle. Black. Big creamy golden-beige head. Cocoa smell. Tastes milk chocolate, smoke and some licorice, hops. A little thin. Short taste. Overrated.

22oz bottle. Pours a near black with a tan thick foamy head. Roasted chocolate nose with some serious bready yeastiness. Almost german influence. The flavor is huge roasted malt and chocolate up front with some really tasty bready german yeastiness. I quite like the pairing of the yeast I normally associate with dark german beers in a complex imperial stout like this. Silky smooth mouthfeel and alcohol is well hidden. Another very good Impy from De Molen.

Deep brown with a tan head. Roasted, light coffee bitter aroma with some fruit and alcohol sweetness and hints of yeast. Roasted, coffee bitter flavor with a light chocolate sweet note. Dry, roasted finish with yeast notes.

SpringsLicker’s Fish Fry. Sample from a bottle shared by me thanks to bierkoning. Ugly brown-red with a soft light tan head. Aroma is nutty, some chocolate and roast. Taste is more forward roastiness, chocolate, nuts and soy sauce.

Black pour with creamy tan head and lace. Burnt coffee on the nose dominates. Coffee flavor is rich and full followed by a nice malt/hops bitter finish. Full bodied with very smooth carbonation

Cloudy dark almost black, no real head. Strong aroma of burned malt with lots of liquorice, dark coffee and chocolate, dark flowers, prunes, spices and hops. Flavour is sweet with bitter finish. Nice complexity and warming alco well balanced.