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Brouwerij De Molen in Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Collab with: Sound BrewerySmoked / Rauchbier Special Out of Production
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Score
7.12
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
33cl Bottle from De Bierkoning. Brown colour, beige head. Aroma of campfire smoke, sweet brown malts, some herbal hops, light fruity, caramel. Flavour is quite sweet, malty, smoke, campfire, caramel, light fruity, bitter finish. Medium bodied, sticky. A bit one dimensional, but nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jun 2015
at 03:46
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at De Molen. Pours cloudy brown with a tan head. Aroma of smoke, light peaty, sweet malts, caramel, toffee and dark fruits. Flavour is light heavy sweet and over moderate bitter. Medium bodied with light carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Jun 2015
at 11:35
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Sampled draft @ “Kaapse Brouwers 1st Anniversary Beer Festival”. Dark amber, big tanned head. Nose is big smoke, very thick meaty Bamberg smoke, sweet spices, big leather, light malt, spice & sugar sweetness but the smoked Bamberg-style malts dominate totally. Taste is hugely malt, same malts everywhere but with a light bitterness, sugar, necessary sweetness to compliment this kind of beers, sugar, sweet spices, big leathery smoke,… Thick malt body,… Basic but very satisfactory. A nice one, sometimes De Molen shows that they can still do it.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 May 2015
at 04:43
7/10
Tried
on 30 May 2015
at 15:58
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Kaapse festival. Slight hazy copper reddish brown with creamy off white head. Red apple, dried stone fruits, smoked ham, sweet biscuits and brown bread, herbal finish. Medium sweet with some smoke and soft bitter finish. Medium bodied with soft feel. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 May 2015
at 08:49
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Brown copper color. Aroma is very smokey, with bacon and some malt. Taste has heavy bamberg style smoke, beacon, caramalt and some raisin. Good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2015
at 17:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
A medium brown, a head is weak and light brown. Aroma is great, smoked ham, tar liquirice, malts. Taste has richness of malts, tar liquirice, some smoked ham and smoke. Medium bodied, low carbonation. The great beer with the footsteps of Schlenkerla.
Tried
on 10 May 2015
at 02:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
33 cL bottle. Pours a hazy amber with a small tan. Meaty, toasted and caramelish. Toasted and dry malty. Dry and malty finish. Meaty and caramelish finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2015
at 15:01
7.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 10
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle from de Molen beershop, dated 26-02-2015 BB 26-02-2017, large sample. Hazy copper color, short frothy head quickly diminishing into a bit of off-white lacing. Aroma is a lot of smoke, sausage, bacon, slight wood, campfire. Slight dry and smokey in taste, bit sweet, soft earthy bitterness. Slight alcoholic in the finish. A bit more sweet perhaps than the classic Bamberg style rauchbiers, but it gets very close. Love this stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2015
at 14:38
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
On tap. Dark amber color with small beige head. Smokey-malty aroma. Taste is lightly fruity, malty, not much of the smoke left. A solid Rauchbock, as you?d say. Not bad. 7-3-6-3-12 Bottle, bottled 26/02/2015, enjoyed 19/01/2016. Good bacon smokeyness, also some hops and barley-wine-like sweet malts in the back, Maggikraut. Taste also has a slight hoppy fruitiness. Good! Either I’ve grown to like smoked beers much more over the past year or this one is better than the tap was. uprated to 7-3-8-4-15.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Apr 2015
at 12:19