Cuvée
Brouwerij De Molen in Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Strong Ale Special Out of Production|
Score
7.73
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Tripel fermented, finally with bordeaux yeast. A blend of our best beers matured on French oak for 6 months.
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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
On tap @ EBF 2008. Totally black body with a thin, lasing brown head. Complex, vinous aroma of liquorices, roasted coffee and dry fruit. Flavor is also complex, dark, sweet malt, oak, vanilla, coffee, dry fruit, port/sherry and alcohol. To the edge of what beer is about, m\nice for sipping.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Dec 2008
at 11:48
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Cask [gravity] at EBF 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark. Clear medium to dark brown black color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, coffee, chocolate, licorice, vinous. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy - syrupy, carbonation is flat. It was one of my first and last beers the first all the days at EBF, Mrs fonefan did as usual not drink much else than De Molen beers this time Cuvee and not Esra Res ... there must be something with great big wooden cask or is it Menno .. 120908
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Dec 2008
at 10:08
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Vat at the European Beer Festival, Copenhagen. Served an unclear, dark brown body under a small, beige head. Alcohol-strong nose with roasted malt, fresh and dried fruits. Raisins more than prunes and other dried fruits. Sweet in the mouth with an alcohol warmth. Roasted malt, dried fruits and oak as well. Full-bodied, slightly sticky mouthfeel. Lasting finish with the flavors found initially. A gorgeous beer, but demanding to drink. Demanding in a good way. (080912)
Tried
on 29 Nov 2008
at 06:04
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Bottle #68 at Pikkulintu on 2008-07-11) Dark brown. Hazy. Tan coloured quickly disappearing medium sized head. Fruity and salty nose. Full bodied and quite dry palate with little carbonation. Fruitiness, malts, wine, sweetness, sourness and bitterness in taste. Sour and bitter aftertaste. Very interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2008
at 10:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From cask at European Beerfestival Copenhagen 2008. Dark brown no head. Nuts, chocolate, cherry, red wine aroma. Port, wood, tobacco, chocolate tastenotes. Medium dry body low carbonation. Cherry and tobacco aftertaste.
Tried
from Cask
on 21 Nov 2008
at 04:10
9.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Black with a lasting off-white head, leaving some lace. Roast aroma with oak at the front, backed up by licorice and chocolate notes. Smooth chocolate flavour with tannins and oak flavours, and a note of charcoal roastedness. The oak impression is really smooth fresh wood, but with a good tannin bite. Soft carbonation and a full body makes it a wonderful beer to sip
Tried
on 05 Oct 2008
at 14:27
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
From cask at EBF 08. Roasted, but good dark fruits which are a tad syrupy. Some spice on the finish. It’s a very good impy stout. Good raisiny molasses dates flavour.
Tried
from Cask
on 04 Oct 2008
at 04:28
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Mahogany body colour. Beige tophead. Sweet, vinous vapour. Sweet dark fruits in flavour supported by oaky vanilla. Enough of spicy tartness to prevent it from being too sweet. Hidden alcohol. Well crafted brew (Sampled from a wooden barrel at EBF, 13.09.2008).
Tried
on 02 Oct 2008
at 04:03
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(Cask) Clear dark brown with a warm reddish hue and a rough, off-white head. Piquant, lightly tart and vinous aroma - not really much of a malty feel. Not overly full-bodied and a little low in carbonation, some hard roasted maltiness but again very piquant and lightly tart. Subdued bitterness and a very warming alcohol in the finish. Very delicious - the wine barrel really did wonders to this one 120908
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Sep 2008
at 10:29
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottled, courtesy of NoiZe. Much appreciated! Dark brown colour, tiny off-white head. Aroma has sour fruits and roasted malts. Flavour has liquorice, oak and red fruits. Nice bitter-sweetness, endless finish. Excellent beer! Rerate: heavy and sour flavours. Too much going on in this beer. Didnt quite work for me this time. -0.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Sep 2008
at 14:32