Rhythm & Blues
Brouwerij De Molen in Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Barley Wine - Barley Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.27
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Rhythm & Blues is based on a English style barley wine. Giving it a strong maltsweet character with lots ripe yellow fruits and vanilla from barrel aging. Flavour indication: ripe yellow fruit, malts.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Aroma of malts, fruits, apricots, vanilla, oak, bourbon. Flavour is sweet malts, a bit boozy. A bit too sweet and cloying for my taste. Still, a nice Barleywine, I especially enjoyed the oak flavours.
Tried
on 18 Feb 2025
at 05:17
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottled. Deep brown colour with a small beigeish brown head. Aroma is plum, raisin, mild alcohol with some toffee and a bit wine gums and come wooden tones. Flavour is wooden, some toffee, honey, plum, raisins and a bit dates with some mild alcohol to it as well. As the alcohol warms up a bit, it gets more boozy
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2023
at 23:50
8.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle at Gainsbar. Smells like rare cheese cheesecake and dried fruit. Taste is great. Subtle bourbon, very fruity, creamy sweetness. Lovely,
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:02
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Reddish amber color. Hints of oak and dried fruit in the aroma. Malty sweet alcoholic flavor. Oak. Some dried fruit. Medium bodied. A considerable dry out effect. Good, but not the best De Molen can offer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:06
7/10
Tried
on 10 Dec 2018
at 10:17
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Buddel (vintage 2012) Clear, amber coloured, small white head, mushroomy nose with traces of dried fruits and vanilla, caramel as well; moderate to solid bitter-sweet flavour with a slight acidity, full bodied but not soft; lingering bitter and musty and caramelly finish. Not MY favourite...
Tried
on 09 Sep 2018
at 20:27
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Beer #4 of my #7000 Celebration (7 on either side of the milestone beer). Super deep and hazy amber, deep brown and muddied bronze coloured body with a large, three to four centimetre tall off-white head that fades nicely to just a single centimetre. Aroma of bourbon, pure caramel, toffee, caster sugar, light grain, a touch of earthy malts, some peat and ending with a relatively large yeast and alcohol pungency that is noticeable for a while. Medium to Full-bodied; Strong rich malty flavours at first that dominate with the bourbon, full peat, toffee, caramelised sugars, pitted fruit, raisin and fig flavours and a big alcohol, oaky and vanilla notes that show very well and fairly well-rounded while being a touch muted. Aftertaste shows the bourbon nicely with a lot of grain, malt and toffee and more vanilla towards the end with a big dose of alcohol and oak, but very complex while somehow being soft. Overall, a very nice beer that has aged quite nicely, and perhaps would do even better with another five years or so - this isn't too thin yet and the flavours are still noticeable, but could use some softening around the edges. Good to try, and if you purchase, age it a touch and round out the characteristics! I sampled this 33 cL bottle purchased from Charleston Beer Exchange in Charleston, South Carolina on 19-April-2015 for US$8,99 sampled at home in Washington on 25-August-2018 almost 3 and a half years after purchase and almost six years after bottling on 15-November-2012, just less than a month after my first kid was born - now she's almost six. Bottled: 15-Nov-2012 // Purchased: 19-April-2015 // Sampled: 25-August-2018
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2018
at 07:04
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
330ml bottle. Cloudy, dark copper colour with small, creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, off-white to beige head. Bourbon aroma, hints of oak, vanilla, a touch of leather, slightly disguised, sweet-ish malty notes with an almond touch, hints of toffee and caramel, sherry, marsala, maraschino cherry. Taste is sweet-ish malty, BA Bourbon notes, oak, vanilla, leather, hints of sherry, marsala, maraschino cherry; minimally warming, alcoholic finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2018
at 00:13
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Aus der Flasche (bottled 2012-11-15) 2013-10 getrunken. Ach nee so eine sauren Drops brauch ich nicht. Neben der Säure ist da irgendwo noch eine Frucht - aber nicht definierbar. Von dern Art eher ein schlechtes Sour Red als ein Barley Wine. Nein das schräge Ale hier ist gar nicht meins. 6/4/3/4/2 Aus der Flasche (bottled 2012-11-15) 2016-01 getrunken. Geiles Barley Wine auch wenn es überraschend hell und recht wenig Sauerteignoten hatte. Die Säure die ich noch 2 Jahr zuvor wahrgenommen hatte ist nun nichts mehr zu entdecken. Dazu kam das die 10,2% verdammt gut eingebunden waren. Eine echte Überraschung wie sich ein Bier über 2 Jahre so in der Flasche verändern kann.10/4/9/4/15 Aus der Flasche (bottled 2012-11-15) 2022-05 getrunken. Dieses Batch haben ich seit 2013 nun ein 3.Mal im Glas. Beim 1.Mal war nahezu untrinkbar säurlich. Dann beim 2.Mal 2015 hatte eine wunderbare Balance eines BarleyWine erreicht. Und nun ist der BarleyWine Stil immer noch deutlich aber mit der leichten Säure und den verwobenen Aromen ist die Qualität wieder etwas schlechter geworden, aber immer noch sehr gut trinkbar. Es bleibt das dieses Ale eine echte launische Primadona ist - Spannend! 7/4/6/4/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Mar 2018
at 14:18
9/10
Bottled Aug. 27th, 2014. Soo much wood, supervinous almost like drinking sherry. Malty sweet, not too sticky, dried fruits, thick, boozy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2017
at 22:00