De Molen Steen & Been (Stone & Bone)

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

Serve in Snifter

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UPDATED: APR 18, 2009 Tap@DeMolen. Wow! What a beer! What else does it need? Tap&Bottle@DeMolen. Yet another great Imperial Stout by De Molen. The bottle was too young so it had almost no head but from the tap it looked wonderful but small light brown head. Great aroma and flavor, all the stuff you would expect. Maybe a bit on the sweet side though.

Draught at EBF 2008, Copenhagen. Dark black and very still. Vegetable and oatmeal notes are apparent on the nose along with the fruitiness, bitter chocolate, liquorice and aniseed that combine to give an outstanding flavour. It is smooth and lovely on the tongue, despite the strength and you feel you get more from every sip. My beer of the festival for EBF.

On tap at EBF 08. People had been going on about this for 2 days, so I thought that I would give it a go. Black, no head. Stunning aroma. Stunning. Great bitter choc espresso stout. ONe of the beers of the festival. It really stood out even though it was one of the last beers I had on the Saturday after drinking for 12 hours solid. A beer that lived up to the hype.

Draught @ De Molen. A black colored beer, with a thick foamy beige head. The aroma of dark smoked malts, with dark fruits. Hints of chocolate with coffee. The taste of dark smoked malts with chocolate, coffee. It has a nice bitterness with hints of alcohol. The aftertaste is coffee bitter.

Tap @ De Molen. Dark chocolate and licorice in the overwhelming aroma. The dark chocolate returns in the much more Islay malt whisky like flavor. Smoke, lapsang souchong tea, tar, peat, hints of licorice. Well made, very tasty beer that hides the alcohol well and that should gain more complexity with further maturation. Already more than excellent.

Draught at EBF 2008. Pitch black coloured with a very small beige head. Roasted flavour of chocolate and dried fruits with notes of coffee and berries. Sweet and roasted flavour of coffee, chocolate and hops. Dry roasted and hoppy finish.

Black with tiny beige short lasting head. Sweet aroma with loads of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee and a bit of smoke. Sweet flavour with roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, smoke and alcohol notes. Low carbonated.

EBF2008. It’s pitch black and the aroma has notes of licorice, roasted malt and light peat smoke. The flavour has sweetness and notes of licorice, peat smoke, dark chocolate and roasted malt. The balance is very nice in this tasty brew. It’s strange, many of the De Molen beers gives me that ”at home” and I know you-feeling, where you do not need at lot of words to explain what you mean...

UPDATED: JAN 31, 2009 Black with a small, light brown head. Aroma has licorice, chocolate and other roast malt. Dry and roasted flavour with a touch of charcoal. A little hoppiness, and a touch of smoke at the end. Smooth and creamy mouthfeel

A Mes rate: 75cl bottle thanks muchly to Menno.
Totally black with a tiny bit of beige foam right at the edge. Awesome aroma full of rich dark chocolate, a ton of fruity malt and some slight coffee notes. Some lovely Italian vanilla ice cream too. Slight roasty peaty notes give it a good solid base to launch it up the nostrils. Similarly awesome flavour but what else would I expect from De Molen. Damn this is crazy. It’s verging on chocolate milkshake. It’s sooooo thick and the total lack of carbonation makes it all the more so. The mouthfeel is pretty much Baileys actually. So creamy it coats your whole mouth and throat on the way down and just doesn’t shift. Which is a good thing as it means you can take a while between sips and just top up on what is still hanging around your gums. Awesome liquorice notes and a delicate medicinal sourness really make it. The finish is roasty as hell with some residual chalky bitterness from the dark dark chocolate flavours. Awesome stuff. Damn, I feel drunk already. Said to Duff I didn’t wanna get drunk tonight, now I’m questioning the wisdom of popping open an 11.5% 75cl bottle to start us off. Oh well...
Thanks so much Menno.