12 oz bottle with red wax on the neck. Brewed 23/11/09 and bottled on 08/01/10 - already 9 months old. Bottle # 1159. $8.99 from Hop City, Atlanta, GA, USA. The beer pours as one would expect. Jet black body with a tan head that produces a little lace and some alcohol legs. The beers' overwhelming aspect is a deliberate and sapping dryness. It's not the alcohol that you remember (it's well hidden), nor is it the considerable bitterness (which is persistent) and it's not even the roasty, burned...
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Brouwerij De Molen
1914 Porter
First tasted at a Brick Store tasting in March of 2009, and subsequently twice more. This is a VERY odd beer that frankly I don't much care for. I seemed to remember hearing that this was built on an "original" or old style recipe for a Porter and if it was I am glad that the style has subsequently evolved. The pour yielded a beer that was essentially porter-like, but with the emphasis on brown rathern than black. Head was poor. Nose was a little non-descript and offered nothing more than a...
Donder & Bliksem
750 mL corked and caged bottle. Slightly strange beast this. It's been at Green's for a little while now, but in the $15 range it makes me a little wary so I was happy to be a recipient of brickstoredave's generosity for a sampling at the pub (these bottles did not sell well apparently and are on their way out of the rotation at the BS). Serious carbonation on opening with a real gusher going on for a few minutes. Mocha foam. Dubbel pour (i.e. mid brown, cloudy and rather drab) with a small...