Ons Benzaike
Van Moll in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.48
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Most people who know me can tell you I love statistics. So a 10K beer is nice to celebrate the milestone, but since Ratebeer allows me to also rate cider, perry, mead and sake’s this isn’t really my 10000th beer rating is it? So we’ve created a special edtition for the real 10000th beer rating, excluding the 158 other beverages I’ve rated over the years.
This very limited special edition was only sold on draught at Van Moll during Benzai’s 10K release party and only 41 bottles have been made. The beer has been aged on bourbon soaked oak chips with some coffee beans added for extra coffee aroma and flavour in the background. Apart from Colin (dEnk / 8-Bit, recipe & brewing), Erwin (Van Moll, recipe & brewing) and André (dutchdrebus, label design) I’d like to thank all of you for sharing beers with me and having a good time. Cheers! ~René / Benzai
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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 10%. Very dark brown with medium tan head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, caramel, little yeast and a little liquorice. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, yeast, medium sweet, hop, liquorice and a little bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2015
at 11:54
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Stark karbonisierter Antrunk. Runde kakaoartig malzige Noten, mit geringer, vanilliartiger Röstigkeit. Etwas bitter, das Bier ist weniger trocken als die normale Version, was sich im Geschmack deutlich bemerkbar macht, leicht herb, rund schokoladig. Mittellanger Nachhall. 12/10/10/11/9/11
Tried
on 29 Aug 2015
at 11:52
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled @ Danish Summer Gathering 2015 Das Bier ist schwarz und hat eine schöne bräunlich Schaumkrone. Geruch stark röstmalzig, Kaffee und Schokolade. Geschmack sehr schokoladig, Vanille, Kaffee, leicht holzig, lecker!
Tried
on 29 Aug 2015
at 11:51
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Huge head with excellent duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are rich coffee, vegetables, chocolate, roast malt, flowers and hops. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2015
at 11:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Black with a lasting brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, coffee and bourbon. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish with warming alcohol. Oily. High carbonation. 290815
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Aug 2015
at 11:49
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Benzai. Pours dark brown tan head. Nose/taste of coffee, oak, bourbon, sweet chocolate and vanilla - medium body. Well carbed.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Aug 2015
at 00:01
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Tap at Van Moll: Black beer, aroma is coffee, chocolate, bourbon, Taste is the same, very nice one
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Aug 2015
at 16:18
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Fles 30/41 gedronken bij en met benzai. Diep donkerbruin bier. Schuimkraag is vlug weg. Carmel- / koffie-geur met de bourbon op de achtergond. Licht sprankelend op de tong. Sterke smaak blijft lang hangen in de mond. De licht-bittere eik-smaak komt goed tot z’n recht in de afdronk.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2015
at 14:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught @ Van Moll Brewpub during Benzai’s 10K release party, August 1st, 2015. Opaque black color, medium sized light brown head. Aroma is malts, coffee, some oak, only lightly bourbon, coffee, espresso and roasted malts quite strongly. Taste malts, again quite some roasted malts, lightly coffee and espresso again, liquorice, dark malts, oak, bitter, malt bitter and lightly a hint of bourbon in the background, though not as strong as I would have liked it to be. Medium body and carbonation. Didn’t exactly turn out the way I had planned, but I’d say it’s a fine first attempt. -- Re-rate August 4th, 2015, Draught @ Van Moll Brewpub. Opaque black color, full sized light brown head. Aroma is malts, roasted malts, lots of espresso. Taste malts, roasted malts, a nice soft touch of bourbon, espresso, slightly oak, moderate to firmly bitter. Medium body and carbonation. Well, actually gets better by the day, I’d rate it a 4.1-4.2 now. Also tastes a lot better from draught compared to the bottles I’ve tried so far, which kind of sucks since most ratebeerians will probably try it from bottle. Better carbonation as well, virtually no carbo from bottle unfortunately. Oh well, nothing I can do about that apart from giving the advice to leave the bottle untouched for at least a couple more weeks.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2015
at 14:19
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl Bottle from ons Benzaike. Black colour, firm beige head. Aroma of coffee, light sourness, berries, some vanilla, roasted malts. Flavour is medium sweet, tart coffee, berries, vanilla, liquoroce, roasted malts, caramel, some dark fruits, but all muted by the excessive carbonation. Gets better after a while though.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2015
at 13:10