De Molen Rasputin

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

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle @ Chris_o shindig 2007. Dark brown color with a average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate yeasty, dry dark fruits, vanilla. Flavor is moderate sweet with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily / syrupy, carbonation is soft.

Bottled. A hazy dark amber beer with a brown head. The aroma is sweet malty wint notes of spices, primarily nutmeg and licorice root. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of alcohol as well as chocolate. Nice body.

Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours a slightly hazy reddish brown with a beige head. Intensely vinous aroma, roasted malts and fruits. Quite full-bodied, somewhat overcarbonated, roasted malts, dried fruit, overripe fruit, some licorice accents and a lightly bitter finish. 221108

75 cL bottle, #417. Pours unclear dark brown with a diminished tan head. Solid roasted malt aroma and mild spiced. Sweet malty. Spiced and roasted malty with a nice lingering yeasty touch. Smooth and dark malty into a lingering finish.

Bottled. Dark brown colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is dark berries and fruits, licorace, slight earth, roasted malts, spices and caramel. Flavour is spices, alcohol, roasted malts and some caramel.

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.

Bottle at PreZBF at Alvinne. Black coloured with a mediuum sized beige head. Light roasted aroma of caramel, dried fruits and liquorice. Light roasted flavour of caramel, liquorice, chocolate and dried fruits. Roasted finish.

UPDATED: DEC 25, 2011 Bottle, 10.7%. Citric aroma, hint of sour rag. Alcoholic nose. Very dark brown colour, almost clear with a few floaties. The flavour is quite sweet with a lot of syrupy, roasted dark malts. The alcohol balances the sweetness, but gets a little burning. High carbonation. 8 4 8 4 16

Bottle, 10.7%. Bottled in June 2008 - drunk in December 2011. Sweet aroma - not sour or alcoholic. Very dark brown colour, seems clear. Small light brown head. The flavour is still sweet and syrupy with some alcohol to balance. Hint of grassy aroma hop. Late bitterness. The carbonation is low to medium. 8 4 8 4 16

2010-01-30, bottle #111 from March/May 2008, 2 years old, 81 EBU (IBU?), OG 1102 FG 1023, 8-4-8-4-16=40
Messy wax on the cork, I don’t even think that would help the cellaring life. The cork explodes, and it pours a black color with a large head; the bottle keeps slowly gushing. The aroma is mild but nice, moslty with chocolate, but also hops and very light cheese rind. There is still too much carbonation to fully appreciate the flavor, but the chocolate is quite good; with the ageing, there is more liquorice and very light astringency; the whole gets mellower with some breathing, and rounder, sweeter, still keeping the chocolate qualities, and allowing the hop to show more. Not refined, but very good.

2008-05-16, corked bottle at Ølfestival 2008, Århus, fresh bottle


2008-05-16, corked bottle at Ølfestival 2008, Århus, end of bottle, 7-3-8-3-14=35
Dark brown color. Still not complete, it has a malt and caramel aroma, strong caramel flavor, quite sweet, with a good bitterness, a bit raw. Lacks in complexity.

UPDATED: JAN 2, 2010
Date: March 22, 2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: black with ruby edges, fine beige head, bits of lace
Aroma: sweet dark caramel and chocolate aroma
Flavor: rich dark chocolate and roasted malt flavor, nice fruity sweetness, light earthyness for balance
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 15/20
Rating: 3.7/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *** /4