Hemel & Aarde
Brouwerij De Molen in Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Stout - Smoked Winter Out of Production|
Score
7.78
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Hemel & Aarde is brewed with the most heavily peated malts we could find. Not for the fainthearted. This powerful brew overwhelms you with smoke, chocolate and coffee. Flavour indication: smoke, chocolate, coffee Translates as Heaven & Earth
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8.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Smoke/peat, chocolate, liquorice, roasted malts, coffee, molasses. Moderate sweetness and mild to moderate bitterness. Somewhat dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2015
at 14:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Hop Hideout, Sheffield. Not far off black. Ring of tan. Slow motion in the glass. First aroma on opening was smoked fish. Thankfully that faded somewhat, soon after. What’s left is a medicinal, liniment, sticking plaster vibe. Big, peaty smoke. Background tar, liquorice, and praline. Taste is smooth, vanilla sweetness. Lots of peaty, ashy bitterness. Smooth, lightly drying palate. Finishes light bitter. Smoky, vanilla sweet on the lips. Close gets tangy, burnt bitter. Complex gear. Never entirely loses the smoked fish thing, for me, though. Would be interested to try the BA variants of this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2015
at 15:41
8/10
Tried
on 29 Sep 2015
at 16:51
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330ml bottle. Black color with beige brown head. Roasted malty aroma, smoked, chocolate, licorice, alcoholic - whiskey. Sweet and bitter taste like aroma. Full almost creamy body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2015
at 09:00
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Muy oscura, espuma beige con manchas marrones muy abundante y poco densa. Fuerte aroma a tabaco que casi tapa otros valores: cuero, chocolate, malta tostada. Muy compleja en boca, donde sigue prevaleciendo el tabaco, junto con muchas otras cosas: café, whisky, vainilla, chocolate. Muy seca. Mucho cuerpo y baja carbonatación. Toda una experiencia para los sentidos. Requiere repetir.
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Jun 2015
at 11:32
7/10
Tried
on 01 Jun 2015
at 01:15
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Erz Winti. Pours black with a beautiful head, a gradient of all bubble sizes you can imagine. Intense malt aroma, pure sweet taste of... Well, ImpStout. Incredibly beautiful.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2015
at 18:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A dark brown ale with a thick frothy lacing brown head. In aroma, sweet burned caramel malt with loads of peated notes, grassy hops, licorice notes, molasses, alcohol warmth, interesting. In mouth, a sweet fruity caramel chocolate malt with loads of alcohol warmth, burned Caramel, peated notes, grassy hops, very nice. On tap at La Fine Mousse.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Apr 2015
at 14:33
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle at home. Three years old. Pours a pitch black color with a light brown, creamy head. Very roasted aroma with lots of smoke, smoked meat, campfire, leather, coffee, dark wood and very dark chocolate. The flavor is also quite roasted with additional tones of ash, leather and rubber. Has a silky and slick mouth feel, and a light bitterness. A balanced and rich IS that is very well-roasted.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2015
at 05:52
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750 ml bottle shared by Cuso at RB Tasting Vienna March Edition. Thanks!
Very dark brown body, with a massive, frothy, brown head.
Aroma of coffee, dark chocolate, some smoke, dark and dried fruits, liquorice.
Taste follows this, with some more caramel.
Full, creamy mouthfeel, with a lively carbonation.
Finishes roasty, dry, with coffee, cocoa powder, dried fruits.
Tasty. Full, heavy malty, but still not as strong as the ABV suggests. Not among my favourite Imperial Stouts, but a very pleasant one!
Very dark brown body, with a massive, frothy, brown head.
Aroma of coffee, dark chocolate, some smoke, dark and dried fruits, liquorice.
Taste follows this, with some more caramel.
Full, creamy mouthfeel, with a lively carbonation.
Finishes roasty, dry, with coffee, cocoa powder, dried fruits.
Tasty. Full, heavy malty, but still not as strong as the ABV suggests. Not among my favourite Imperial Stouts, but a very pleasant one!
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2015
at 13:49