Engels
Brouwerij De Molen in Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Bitter - Ordinary / Best Bitter Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.68
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Rerate, 330 ml bottle, from the Norwegian importer. ABV is 4.5%, 30 EBU. Bittering hops are Sladek and Amarillo, dryhopping with Sladek. So what makes this beer "English"? Not the hops, anyway. Hazy golden colour, large white head. Very nice aroma of fruity hops. Well balanced flavour, nice fruity hops, while the bitterness is moderate. Medium dry, light bodied, but not watery. Decent enough, but was possibly even better on cask. Original rating: Cask at the GBBF 2008, gravity dispense. Cloudy golden colour, moderate head. Nice fruity / berries aroma. Berries in the flavour too (blackcurrants, boysenberries) with a moderate but nice hoppy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2008
at 06:18
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle from trade with jbrus. It poured a clear, golden body with an off-white head. Fruity, sour nose with some pale malt, and a good hoppyness. Hoppy, resiny and bitter, flavor with malt to give it balance. Medium body. Bitter finish, quite resiny. The beer starts off a bit boring, but the hoppyness makes it something interesting. It actually surprised me with it’s bitterness. (080509)
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2008
at 06:37
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 5.0%. Very nice hop aroma, fruity, refreshingly grassy, and sweet. Hazy golden colour. Small stable chalk white head. The flavour starts off with a distint, clean bitterness. There is also some of the same hoppiness as in the aroma, though more flowery than fruity. Has a little watery notes in the finish, but still nice. 7 3 7 3 15
Cask at GBBF08. Weak tea aroma. Cloudy orange colour. Small head. Teaish flavour. Very low carbonation. 6 3 6 3 13
Bottle, 4.5%. Citric grassy hop aroma. Cloudy golden colour. The flavour is citric and grassy from the hops. OK mouthfeel and OK beer considering the ABV. 6 3 6 3 16
Cask at GBBF08. Weak tea aroma. Cloudy orange colour. Small head. Teaish flavour. Very low carbonation. 6 3 6 3 13
Bottle, 4.5%. Citric grassy hop aroma. Cloudy golden colour. The flavour is citric and grassy from the hops. OK mouthfeel and OK beer considering the ABV. 6 3 6 3 16
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2008
at 15:48
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottled
Hazy darkish orange/amber color, small steady white head. I don’t find nose as aromatic hoppy than many earlier raters, for me this is closer to typical Dutch ale’s aroma: it’s fruity (mango, apricot), touch of candy sugar with pinewoody hops thrown in. Maybe it is just Molen’s yeast in the nose, because flavor is dry, not all fruity and sweet. Piney planks, leather and aromatic hops in the flavor. Late bitterness. A bit papery in the aftertaste. Quite different Dutch beer. Is it excellent beer? I don’t know, let’s say that it is more interesting than really good.
Hazy darkish orange/amber color, small steady white head. I don’t find nose as aromatic hoppy than many earlier raters, for me this is closer to typical Dutch ale’s aroma: it’s fruity (mango, apricot), touch of candy sugar with pinewoody hops thrown in. Maybe it is just Molen’s yeast in the nose, because flavor is dry, not all fruity and sweet. Piney planks, leather and aromatic hops in the flavor. Late bitterness. A bit papery in the aftertaste. Quite different Dutch beer. Is it excellent beer? I don’t know, let’s say that it is more interesting than really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2007
at 11:31
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Frothy white excelent mostly lasting head. Yellow colour. Light malty fantastic hoppy aroma. Loads of flowers and grass-notes. Really fantastic. Moderate bitter flavor. Long moderate bitter finish. Not as grasyy as promised in aroma. Oily and dry palate. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Oct 2007
at 01:38
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask, Jan Primus. Cask conditioned version of de Molen Engels. Clear amber color, short frothy white head. Aroma of hop, grapefruit, pine, some caramel malt. Very malty and bitter taste, quite fruity as well. Very nice bitter!
Earlier Rating: 6/18/2007 Total Score: 3.2
Clear golden color, short frothy white head. Aroma is flowery and hoppy, some grapefruit, some pine. Quite bitter taste, bit citrus, bit weak and clean, quite dry. Decent bitter, but it lacks some creamyness in the texture. Very watery body.
Earlier Rating: 6/18/2007 Total Score: 3.2
Clear golden color, short frothy white head. Aroma is flowery and hoppy, some grapefruit, some pine. Quite bitter taste, bit citrus, bit weak and clean, quite dry. Decent bitter, but it lacks some creamyness in the texture. Very watery body.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Sep 2007
at 11:55