Hollandse Nieuwe
Uiltje Brewing Co. in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Stout Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.98
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alex_leit (19738) reviewed Hollandse Nieuwe from Uiltje Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle 33 cl. Very dark brown color with brownish foam. Aroma: roasted malts, caramel, a little coffee, chocolate, a light milk note. Tastes: burnt and caramel, light sour, a bit of chocolate and coffee, a bit bitter.
lore (8010) reviewed Hollandse Nieuwe from Uiltje Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
almost black colour, large dense beige head; aroma of heavy roasted coffee, burnt wood, slight licorice and dark chocolate; taste of (over-)roasted-burnt bitterness, coffee, burnt wood, and slight syrupy-burnt sugary sweetness in the background; good one, though I can't feel even minimal notes of any oyster
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Hollandse Nieuwe from Uiltje Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
One of the new Uiltje beers of this year, their interpretation of the old oyster stout myth. Bottle from Willems in Grobbendonk near Antwerp. Very irregularly and intricately papery lacing, thick and frothy, bumpy, foamy, pale yellow-beige head over a black beer with hazy caramel brown edges. Weird aroma off coffee grounds and used coffee filters, minerals, mussel shells and indeed a dash of salty oyster flesh, initially a whiff fresh herring (to which the name refers) quickly fading again, old dusty black chocolate bars, salmiak, glasswort, hard toffee, damp earth, beef stock cubes or even gravy, sandpaper, dried elderberries, cigar ashes, charcoal, acorns, magnesium supplement pills, cold tea, tree bark. Sweetish onset but not overly so, dried fig and blackcurrant with a dash of pear, sourish undertone of roasted barley, thick beef stock-like umami edge merging with the sweetness, salty side effects from the oysters added to the mash but probably more so from the added sea salt, hinting at salted caramel in combination with the sweetness; soft carb, oily mouthfeel. Caramelly and toasty malt body, relatively low in sweetness with more bitterishness to it - as well as these salty edges persisting, almost like in a Gose; roasty bitter, nutty and ashy finish, coffee 'blackness' with still that saltiness dancing around, spicy and bitter finish tempered by the initial caramelly sweetness, light minerally notes, leafy hop bitterness accentuating the roastedness. It seems the oysters, thanks to their being chock-full of proteins, have added some body to this stout, as it feels heavier than its 6.5% ABV; the sea salt does add something extra though, a subtle but persistent saltiness that could never have been achieved by the mollusks alone. Interesting beer - as usual with present-day Uiltje - but of course this will not help in debunking the myth that actual oysters were added to the mash for brewing stouts in bygone days... In certain ways, these modern oyster stouts that actually use oysters as an ingredient, are an old story taken literally and in that sense a mockery. I can take a certain amount of saltiness in certain beers, even stouts, but considering how stouts were originally just used as an accompaniment to oysters - or at best, filtered on oyster shells, I do not really want to taste my stout like an oyster. This one does only to a certain extent, but more so than I found in most other oyster stouts I consumed so far - yet those aren't many. The 'Hollandse Nieuwe' name is a cunning reference to the fact that indeed, at a first sniff, a kind of fresh fish-like aspect shows up in the nose so all things considered and any attempts at being historically serious put aside, in the realm of myth where they belong, this is at least an original, funny and fascinating beer, though that beefy, gravy-like umami factor in both nose and mouth should (and could) have been less intense for me. Lacking a bit in 'cleanness' and going a bit too far in both umami and salty flavours, this is not Uiltje's greatest success for me so far, but as said, it sure deserves extra points for originality and audacity.
vinivini (12875) reviewed Hollandse Nieuwe from Uiltje Brewing Co. 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Opaque. Almost black. Weak head of off-white colour. Aroma: fairly roasty, coffee, citrusy hops. Medium minus body. Dry taste. Massive roasted malts. Coffee. Light plus bitterness. Dangerously drinkable for the ABV.
Sloefmans (15519) reviewed Hollandse Nieuwe from Uiltje Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Rust to tan head with a verdigris sheen over black beer. Chocolate, molasses; sweet nose. Tobacco ashes, café noir cookies. Dry flavour, ashy, near all sweetness vanished. Indeed bit mineral but not really salty/seaaroma. Gradually more cigarette ashes. Medium bodied, dryish effect on the tongue. Good carbonation. Nose made me more than a tad weary but the dry MF and flavours make for a good stout. 6/4/7/4/14
Borresteijn (12473) reviewed Hollandse Nieuwe from Uiltje Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
33cl Bottle from Uiltje Taproom. Black colour, beige head. Aroma of berries, hint of leather, roasted malts, fudge. Flavour is medium sweet, malty, fudge, some roast, light fruity, berries, light metallic, bitter finish. Light bodied, creamy. Decent.
kajser27 (3009) reviewed Hollandse Nieuwe from Uiltje Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Dark brown to black colored, small nonlasting tan head. Aroma is of roasted malt, bit bready, light caramel, chocolate. Taste is medium sweet malt, roasted and chocolate, some bready notes, milky to salty choco, medium- roasty bitterness. Medium bodied, soft-flat carbonation, creamy. (bottle, Bierhalle Deconinck, Vichte)
Drebus (8640) reviewed Hollandse Nieuwe from Uiltje Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Fles @ Nederlands bier is beter dan buitenlandse meuk 2018. Zwarte kleur met een kleine maar redelijk solide beigekleurige schuimlaag. Ruikt geroosterd, zoet, chocolade, het korstje van een donkerbruin brood. Smaakt flink roosterig, cacao, chocolade, chocoladevla. Best een dikke smaak voor een bier van 6.5%. Had ook een stout van 9% kunnen zijn. Volle smaak, zachte textuur, zacht koolzuur. Lekker!
caesar (10841) reviewed Hollandse Nieuwe from Uiltje Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from het Biermoment, BB 15/12/2018. Hazy dark brown color, short frothy head. Aroma of dark bread and some licorice. Roasty bitterness, loads of dark bread. Not getting any oysters, but all liquid dark bread. One dimensional, but decent. Ugliest label ever.
sjogro (11784) reviewed Hollandse Nieuwe from Uiltje Brewing Co. 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home. Black with tan head. Sweet and dry roasted malts, burnt matches, charcoal, chalk, laurel, licorice. Moderate sweet and umami, light bitter and hint of saltiness. Medium body bit watery feel to it, but deep roasty aroma.