De Molen Passie & Cacao fles 33cl

De Molen Passie & Cacao

Een rijke Imperial Stout met geroosterde tonen, intense cacao en een frisse toets van passievrucht. Het zoete karakter van de cacaonibs harmonieert met een fruitig zuurtje van de passievrucht, wat zorgt voor een perfect gebalanceerd smaakprofiel. Met een volle body biedt deze stout een complexe en verfijnde drinkervaring.

• Durf jij dit bier aan? Chocolade, passievrucht en geroosterd
• Waanzinnig lekker bij: Chocolade taart, chocolade en kokos desserts
• De grootste smaakexplosie op: 8-10 graden Celsius

Beer review (EN):

Passie & Cacao

I should warn you: do not be put off by the smell of this year. Cacao and passion fruit is the combination I’ve been yearning for for years, since I set foot on my first ever chocolate tour of Brussels as a guide and stepped into a very particular shop.

My blast from the past aside, I urge you to try this beer if you are a lover of velvety textures and tropical tastes. It’s definitely more normal (at least as far as I can see) to pair chocolate with things like strawberries, raspberries, or oranges, but step a bit outside the box and wonders await. That being said, the initial smell is of deep, dry cacao but also some astringency of passion fruit- real passion fruit and not of the sugary sweet variety, so I understand why some may think it smells a bit odd.

I hope you’ll agree, though, once you taste it, any doubt is gone. The initial hit I get is pure dry cacao, like when you accidentally inhale strong hot chocolate powder, but there is a small sour hit which then bursts into a fizz not unlike the creme you get when pouring champagne. So far, so lightly complex.Then: it all changes. The beer practically melts into dark chocolate while retaining a very light, fluid texture and unleashing the passionfruit juiciness.

If you let it warm a little, a lot of the initial sourness from the passionfruit vanishes from the first sip and you get a lovely more-ish juicy flavour which melds with the rich chocolate beautifully. If I were asked (and well, I suppose I have been), I’d love to have just a small slice of very young, textured goat’s cheese with this to compliment it. The body is a little thinner than I’d expected from De Molen, but I definitely think that was the right choice for such bold and unexpected flavours. The aftertaste leaves you with some fizziness from the passionfruit- a mild petillant edge- and a really earthy and rich backing of the cacao. I do not exaggerate when I say I could happily drink this forever or have it in my back pocket as a surprising dessert at a dinner party, accompanied by the appropriate chocolate and cheese of course.

Now BRB as I head to Brussels (via Bodegraven) to pick up the appropriate supplies.