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Pek & Veren
Brouwerij De Molen
- From:
- Brouwerij De Molen
- Netherlands
- Style:
- Foreign / Export Stout
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.56 | pDev: 12.64%
- Reviews:
- 28
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 24, 2022
- Added:
- May 02, 2008
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 4
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by GreesyFizeek from New York
3.67/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.67/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
This pours a solid and glossy dark brown, murky and opaque, with no head, and no lacing.
Smells like smoke, booze-soaked raisins, peat, toffee, cocoa powder, and leafy hops.
This has a super watery finish- it finishes quite flat. This is probably a product of the beer's age. The flavors are nice though- there's a nice fruity and smoky flavor to it, with peat, dark fruit, tobacco. It just feels old and over the hill, unfortunately.
This is medium bodied, with a definite lack of carbonation. It's not entirely still, but close.
I could tell this was great a while ago. As it is now, it's just interesting, but flawed.
Feb 13, 2017Smells like smoke, booze-soaked raisins, peat, toffee, cocoa powder, and leafy hops.
This has a super watery finish- it finishes quite flat. This is probably a product of the beer's age. The flavors are nice though- there's a nice fruity and smoky flavor to it, with peat, dark fruit, tobacco. It just feels old and over the hill, unfortunately.
This is medium bodied, with a definite lack of carbonation. It's not entirely still, but close.
I could tell this was great a while ago. As it is now, it's just interesting, but flawed.
Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado
3.99/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.99/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
awesome beer, awesome brewery, and although its expensive, i believe it to be worth the money. those expecting an american stout, are in for a rude awakening, this is something entirely different, almost a scotch ale meets a stout, with a peaty sort of base, definitely some terroir on this, briny almost in the nose, and rich but not at all sweet. there is a real character to the beers these guys make, all of them so interesting and different, not really fitting neatly into conventional style guidelines at all, but still satisfying the basics for me. i love this, its as much a brown ale as a stout in many ways, as much cocoa character as roast, minimal bitterness, and a lightness shocking for both its depth of flavor and for its alcohol content. earthy, touch of smoke maybe, bakers chocolate minus the bitter, and layered in a new way with the grain flavors. it feels light, easy drinking for what it is, not all that stout-like for me, but it has so many cool features in feel, soft and yeasty in a good way, just awesome. surprised to see this rated so low, i can only accept that if the price is influencing peoples scores negatively. not often i buy an 18 dollar bottle, but in this case, for me, it was worth it all the way.
Feb 05, 2015Reviewed by Dope from Massachusetts
3.58/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
No bottle date but guessing this is a couple years old (last review was almost a year ago).
A: Pours a dark brown. Decent sized and fizzy medium brown head. Head fades somewhat quickly with no lacing, but has great retention.
S: Mild mellow chocolate. When swirled I get a smoky umami with it as well.
T: A bit of dark chocolate with lots of umami. VERY meaty. Smoke joins it along with a touch of soy sauce. Flavors are pretty mellow and smooth. A bit bitter and acrid in the finish from the smoke and bitter baker's chocolate.
M: Medium bodied, smooth.
O: Not a bad FES. Smooth, mellow and easy drinking. Lots of smoke and umami though which really isn't my thing. Just too savory. Flavors are decent and balanced at least, I think my personal bias is mainly the problem here. Decent beer.
Jun 29, 2013A: Pours a dark brown. Decent sized and fizzy medium brown head. Head fades somewhat quickly with no lacing, but has great retention.
S: Mild mellow chocolate. When swirled I get a smoky umami with it as well.
T: A bit of dark chocolate with lots of umami. VERY meaty. Smoke joins it along with a touch of soy sauce. Flavors are pretty mellow and smooth. A bit bitter and acrid in the finish from the smoke and bitter baker's chocolate.
M: Medium bodied, smooth.
O: Not a bad FES. Smooth, mellow and easy drinking. Lots of smoke and umami though which really isn't my thing. Just too savory. Flavors are decent and balanced at least, I think my personal bias is mainly the problem here. Decent beer.
Reviewed by Flounder57 from Massachusetts
3.65/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.65/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
750 ml bottle was poured into an imperial pint glass. Thanks once again to Gordon's on this score of a beer.
Appearance: this beer poured a two finger mocha head that has reduced to a thin layer. It is a pitch black beer with no visions of carbonation coming up through the glass.
Smell: roastiness, chocolate mocha, some booziness, molasses, and some fruitiness to the beer.
Taste: all of the above plus smoke and some bitterness.
Mouthfeel: dry, full bodied, medium to high carbonation, a little bitterness, and slightly smooth.
Overall: not bad for a foreign extra stout, it got better with warming up to room temperature, but flavors could be blended better and the aftertaste took a little bit adjusting to.
Sep 14, 2012Appearance: this beer poured a two finger mocha head that has reduced to a thin layer. It is a pitch black beer with no visions of carbonation coming up through the glass.
Smell: roastiness, chocolate mocha, some booziness, molasses, and some fruitiness to the beer.
Taste: all of the above plus smoke and some bitterness.
Mouthfeel: dry, full bodied, medium to high carbonation, a little bitterness, and slightly smooth.
Overall: not bad for a foreign extra stout, it got better with warming up to room temperature, but flavors could be blended better and the aftertaste took a little bit adjusting to.
Reviewed by twiggamortis420 from Texas
3.75/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.75/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
750 mL bottle courtesy of Auslander pours a foggy, dark brown color with a small cap of tan head.
Nose is interesting...TONS of bruised, dark fruit, black licorice, molasses and brown sugar. Wife thinks it smells smoky, hmmm…maybe some smoke aromas do creep in there a little.
Smooth, rich and velvety with lots of yeasty plums and figs. Touch of sweetness offsets the fruit nicely. The malts show some light roast and maybe some molasses. This is a nice middle ground stout...somewhere in between a Foreign Export Stout and a Belgian Stout. Has an odd little earthy, mushroom presence as it warms. Definitely worth a try based on uniqueness alone, not to mention it is pretty tasty!
Apr 20, 2012Nose is interesting...TONS of bruised, dark fruit, black licorice, molasses and brown sugar. Wife thinks it smells smoky, hmmm…maybe some smoke aromas do creep in there a little.
Smooth, rich and velvety with lots of yeasty plums and figs. Touch of sweetness offsets the fruit nicely. The malts show some light roast and maybe some molasses. This is a nice middle ground stout...somewhere in between a Foreign Export Stout and a Belgian Stout. Has an odd little earthy, mushroom presence as it warms. Definitely worth a try based on uniqueness alone, not to mention it is pretty tasty!
Pek & Veren from Brouwerij De Molen
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
45 ratings
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