Draught @ Van Moll Brewpub during Benzai’s 10K release party, August 1st, 2015. Opaque black color, medium sized light brown head. Aroma is malts, coffee, some oak, only lightly bourbon, coffee, espresso and roasted malts quite strongly. Taste malts, again quite some roasted malts, lightly coffee and espresso again, liquorice, dark malts, oak, bitter, malt bitter and lightly a hint of bourbon in the background, though not as strong as I would have liked it to be. Medium body and carbonation. Didn’t exactly turn out the way I had planned, but I’d say it’s a fine first attempt. -- Re-rate August 4th, 2015, Draught @ Van Moll Brewpub. Opaque black color, full sized light brown head. Aroma is malts, roasted malts, lots of espresso. Taste malts, roasted malts, a nice soft touch of bourbon, espresso, slightly oak, moderate to firmly bitter. Medium body and carbonation. Well, actually gets better by the day, I’d rate it a 4.1-4.2 now. Also tastes a lot better from draught compared to the bottles I’ve tried so far, which kind of sucks since most ratebeerians will probably try it from bottle. Better carbonation as well, virtually no carbo from bottle unfortunately. Oh well, nothing I can do about that apart from giving the advice to leave the bottle untouched for at least a couple more weeks.

Cheers Rene, here’s to 10k! (Damn, that rhymes). Proud to have done some of them with you.
Black, creamy tan head. Aroma of caramel, roasted malt, coffee, milk chocolate, pralines. Sweet malty flavour, caramel, malts, cacao. Quite sweet finish, some vanilla. Nice brew.
(draught @ Van Moll brewpub, Eindhoven)

33cl Bottle from the 10k man himself. Cheers pal, to many more! Black colour, no head. Aroma of burnt malts, vanilla, coffee, caramel, ashy and sticky at the same time. Flavour is medium sweet, burnt malts, tar, coffee, caramel, some milk chocolate, vanilla, bitter finish. Medium bodied, soft to flat carbonation. Good.

Tap @ van Moll during Benzai’s 10k party, small sample. Dark color, short brown head. Aroma has less roast, but a bit of vanilla added, slight oak wood and maybe some extra fruitiness. Soft sweet vanilla notes added. Nice stuff.

Tap @ van Moll during Benzai’s 10k party, medium sample. Dark color, medium brown head. Aroma of lots of roasted barley, bit coffee, touch of blackcurrant and dark chocolat. Bit sweet in taste, slight sourness of dark malts, roasty bitterness. Quite thick and quite enjoyable.