Bottle at home. Pours black, sweet roast chocolate, dry bitter finish, some liquorice.

330ml bottle, thanks to Benzai. Never usually give such a high mark, but just took another sip and this really is a special beer. Pours black with thin beige head. Lovely soft smoky, woody aroma. Taste is thick and oily, with silky smooth chocolate and peated notes, subtle liquorice, smoke, bourbon barrel, vanilla, dark chocolate, burnt coffee dregs with bitter ash on the finish. An endlessly enjoyable beer.

very dark brown colour, minimal head, which disappears fully very quickly; aroma of coffee, ash, herbal liqueur and some smoke; taste of coffee, chocolate, ash, smoke, herbal liqueur, and syrupy notes; really good imperial stout

---hemel y aarde from barrel bruichladdich 1972---. Botella de 18 cl numero 1032 de 1776. elaborada en 03-12-2009. embotellado en 07-06-2010. esta y otras dos o tres botellas. Tomada en paco,s en verano de 2011. Imperial stout alucinante. Color negro intenso con mucha espuma muy oscura. Cuerpo fuerte, de 9.5 vol, con enormes sabores tostados y quemados junto con madera empapada de whisky bastante presente. De las primeras hemel y aarde, creo que con mas sabor que las siguientes lotes en botella de 33 cl y ya sin numerar. ---hemel y aarde--- botella de 33 cl elaborada en 16-11-2010.. embotellada en 16-12_2010. Botella n. 721 De 781. Tomada con otras mas en varias ocasiones en el lúpulo durante fin de 2012 principios de 2013. parece no tener un sabor turboso y de madera de whisky tan intenso como la anterior de18 cl. Inicio con bastante gas y muchísima espuma, que hace que servirla en el vaso sea bastante complicado. Con gran cantidad de sedimentos algunas botellas. Muy buena.

Bottle 33 cl. Black with a nice and lasting lightbrown foamy head. Smoke aroma with some sence of coffee and licorice. The taste is sweet, light bitter. full body with a nice warm roasted end. The alcohol is well hidden. Barcelona

Pours thick black,huge, stable light tan head. Aroma is smoky, licorice. Taste the same, quite sweet, medium carb. Delicious!

750ml bottle [#28 of 150, bottled 2011/03/07, 9.5% abv]. Pitch black colour with late awakening, small, frothy to creamy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, tan head. Intense, rich and complex dark malty aroma, notes of chocolate, treacle, liquorice, leather, peat, tar. Taste is dry to bitter hoppy, moderately sweet dark malty, notes of dark chocolate, treacle, salty liquorice, a touch of peat; full body, oily texture, soft & sticky palate. This is a De Molen classic, and I think this perfectly illustrates the core area of De Molen’s genuine strenght. Without knick-knack, neither barrel-aged, (un-)intentionally sour nor in any other way developed further. I believe that Imperial Stout is one out of the very few styles that actually can originate a 5.0-rating, and furthermore, I believe that De Molen is able to produce this by "standard brewing". Very good.