Brouwerij De Molen Frack & Frick

Frack & Frick

 

Brouwerij De Molen in Bodegraven, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱

Collab with: Brouwerij Kees
  Stout - Smoked Special Out of Production
Score
7.60
ABV: 10.6% IBU: 38 Ticks: 54
Kees & Menno thought about malts. Smoked malts as the base malt for a new brew… Smoked malt from Bamberg to be precise. The choice of base malt was unanimous. But (headstrong who?) they wanted to make two different beers with it. March 14th 2017was Imperial Stout (Frack & Frick) day at our place, April 12th was Barley Wine (Frick & Frack) day at Brouwerij Kees!' place. Try them alongside to taste the obvious differences and unavoidable similarities.
 

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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is intense smoke with smoked bacon, smoked dark malt, some roast, ash, caramel, chocolate. Flavour is medium sweet and moderate to medium bitter. Body is medium. Heavily smoked, like a Bamberg Impie Stout. Very good, heavy smoke!

Tried from Bottle on 08 Feb 2025 at 10:38


6

Tried from Draft at Brouwcafé de Molen on 11 Sep 2021 at 16:04


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Black colored, small tan head. Smoke, chocolate, roasted malt, bit smoked ham, some caramel notes, light alcohol, medium sweet and bitterness, some biscuit notes, light bread. Medium-full bodied, soft carbonation, oily to creamy. Excellent!

Tried on 19 Dec 2019 at 21:36


5

Good quality but the style isn't for me.

Tried at Beerlovers Bar on 25 Nov 2019 at 17:48


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle @ Bierfestival Albergen. Almost black. Malt, roast and caramel in the aroma. Malt, roast and caramel in the somewhat syrupy flavor. Licorice and smoke. Full bodied. Good!

Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2019 at 12:04


7

Tried from Growler on 17 Mar 2019 at 22:03


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Pours a black colour. Head is beige with short retention. Aroma's of smoke, leather/rubber, with some chocolatey sweetness and light roast. Retronasal there's light (red) fruit additionally. Flavour is above moderate sweet, smoky, with light roasty bitterness. Medium to full bodied. Finishes with roasted malts and moderate bitterness. Still pretty good!

Tried from Bottle on 13 Feb 2019 at 19:25


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

0.33 l bottle from 'Speciaalbierpakket.nl', bottled in April 2017. Pitch black with a medium large, frothy, almost stable, dark beige head. Sweetish-malty, quite smoky and slightly roasty aroma of massive smoked ham, chocolate, coffee and some licorice. Very sweet, malty, gently roasty and quite smoky taste of nougat, coffee, hazelnut, quite some smoked ham, licorice, peat and iodine, followed by a long, moderately roasty-bitter, gently peaty and slightly medicinal finish. Full body, smooth and creamy mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Quite intense, maybe a bit too sweet, but overall very tasty. Interestingly, I get beechwood smoke in the aroma but mainly peat in the taste as well as in the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Oct 2018 at 18:57


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Draft @ Skaal, Copenhagen. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty smoky chocolate aroma. Roasted malty smoky caramel chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty caramel chocolate smoky finish.

Tried from Draft on 13 Sep 2018 at 17:55


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle, 11C. Black with a cm of dense tan head that never quite disappears. 3+ Aroma of smoked caramel, dark chocolate, blackberries, vanilla, pepper. Silky with moderate to low carbonation. Sweet caramel with bittersweet chocolate, smoke and modest roasted and bitter flavours to balance. Are they quite enough? After 100ml or so, yes. And then coffee creeps up to overtake the chocolate and then the smoke. Intriguing, good.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Jun 2018 at 16:35