De Molen / Struise Black Damnation
The Black Damnation series is a dark twist of Urban’s mind. His idea is to realize a dozen beers with the use of Black Albert, and over a period of two years, that are as black as hell, filty rich in the nose and with massive taste.
Black Damnation is a blend with the use of Hel & Verdoemenis from Brouwerij De Molen. This is the first of the series.
50% of Black Albert was used with another 50% of H &V.
Black coloured beer with just a sliver of a dark tan head. Aroma is glorious & full of coffee, brown sugar, dark fruity chocolate. Flavours of H&V are quite evident, charcoal and mineral notes, chocolate, cocoa powder. Good coffee chocolate finish with good balancing bitterness and hops & sugar in the after taste.
2009 vintage 12% abv
2010 vintage 13% abv
Black Damnation is a blend with the use of Hel & Verdoemenis from Brouwerij De Molen. This is the first of the series.
50% of Black Albert was used with another 50% of H &V.
Black coloured beer with just a sliver of a dark tan head. Aroma is glorious & full of coffee, brown sugar, dark fruity chocolate. Flavours of H&V are quite evident, charcoal and mineral notes, chocolate, cocoa powder. Good coffee chocolate finish with good balancing bitterness and hops & sugar in the after taste.
2009 vintage 12% abv
2010 vintage 13% abv
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379 reviews
Bodegraven, Netherlands
Community reviews
Bottle split thanks to Theydon Bois. 2010 vintage Bottle.
Poured thick black oily with thick beep beige head.
Nose is dark malts, coffee, chocolate, toffee. Taste is a complex mixture of dark fruit, chocolate, malts, coffee grinds, cocoa and a strong flavoursome finish. Utterly fantastic beer this.
Mørk∕Svart farve med beige skum. Lukt av frukt, røstet malt, sjokolade, kaffe og lakris. Smak av frukt, røstet malt, sjokolade, kaffe og lakris. Lett bitter. Tap @ ØST.
Lukt: Kirsebær, mørk sjokolade og vanilje.
Utseende: Mørk rødbrun, tilnæmret sort.
Skum/kullsyre: Lite skum, tynn ring langs kant.
Smak: En liten "sprudlende" smak i munnen, sjokolade med en herlig noe syrlig kirsebær avslutning som sitter.
Hvor: Kjøpt/Nydt@ØST, Stavanger sammen med Gorm.
Medium: Tapp@160ml, ABV@%, Når@09.09.2015
Bottle, 2010 vintage. Luckily no jellyfication has started in this bottle. Pours a pitch black beer with a massive off white head on top, very creamy and stays on for a long time. Aroma has a lot of roasted malts, sweet sugary stuff, some booze and even some faint hints of coffee after all these years. Flavor is very sweet, with roasted charcoal characters, sweet molasses, licorice, basically everything you want in your imperial stout. Alcohol is very well hidden in the flavors, yet it punches like a mule after drinking. Aftertaste is sweet and roasty, dark fruits and again the coffee is in there. Very faint, but there. A shadow of it’s former self, but still great!
Black with tan head. Lingering head considering abv. Chocolate coated cherries, caramel and belgian spice. Sweet, "drops" and lingering alcoholic caramel. Overall: wow!!!
Drank at ZeeBra 2015 (21-6-2015), 2010 bottle. Typical Struise black damnation taste, and very present H&V as well, only the basics of that, without the added crazzyness. Deep chocolate, a bit coffee. Pleasant taste.
Bottle thanks to 50Belair! Pours inky black, medium dark brown creamy head, slow to dissipate with nice lacing. So far, so good. Aroma is fudge brownies, molasses, roasted malts, cocoa powder, raisin, some coffee. Flavor is all of the above, quite sweet, light plus bitter, rich and decadent. Full body, creamy mouthfeel
Bottle at a big tasting (Nörprovning 2015). Dark malty smell with chocolate, coffee and a hint of metall. Similar taste with chocolate, caramel and a roasted aroma. Musty and deep flavour. Very nice!
330ml bottle at home, 13% ABV. Thanks Spiros!! Black color with nice creamy brown head. Aroma is roasted malty, light coffee, chocolate, nuts-hazelnuts, dark fruits, peat, leather. Taste is sweet and bitter, roasted malty again, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, dark fruity and nutty, light peated. Full body almost creamy with soft carbonation and long bittersweet nutty coffee and dark chocolate aftertaste.
This poured a darker brown color with a beige head. Aroma was of green pepper and dark fruit. Flavor similar, with some booze and caramel. Another way overrated European Impy.
Bottle shared thanks to beerman6686. More dark fruit aroma and taste than the typical roasty stout. Not so much my style here.
Blind taste test:
1. Founders imperial stout
2. Evil Twin Christmas Eve at a NY Hotel room
3. Shorts Publican Porter
4. Hitchhiker Rucksack Porter
5. Church Brew stout
6. Struise Black Damnation
Ebony pour with a decent biscuit head. Huge aromas of malts, dark fruit, chocolate, coffee, smoked wood chip. Boozy, rich and hoppy. Tremendous.
Bottle, one of the 5 year olds they sold at Borefts this year. Beer came gushing out, shame some was lost. Probably infected. Delicious smell of roasted malt and cacao, but a bit sour as well. Taste was a bit of a lettdown, it didn’t age very well. Body somewhat thin, with a sour/sweet (infected) taste of malt and chocolate, the bitters got lost. I like the current BD series better.
UPDATE. Had an uninfected as well, much better beer. Thick and heavy, with both sweet coffee and choco notes and bitter roasted malt and hop. Great beer. Rating is for the uninfected one.
5 years old. Gusher?! Aroma had a sour cherrys and yeah no good anymore. Taste is sour strong alcohol. Too bad
-- rated with beerbasher/winphone
330ml bottle served in an italian tulip glass. 2010 Edition - Best before March 2014.
A: Pours an oily black color forming a medium sized creamy thick tan head with low retention that forms and leaves only very few thin spotty lacings in the glass.
S: Sweet roasted nose. Strong notes of roasted malts and dark dry fruits. Strong notes of dry plums. Notes of dark chocolate, coffee, vanilla, candy sugar and licorice. Hints of oak. Oxidation notes.
T: Sweet upfront taste. Again, strong notes of roasted malts, dark chocolate, coffee, dry plums, caramel malts, raisins, candy sugar, licorice and vanilla. Hints of wood and oxidization. Medium and not very persistent bitterness. Grassy hops profile.
M: Full, heavy, creamy and molasses body. Low carbonation. Roasted malts, dark chocolate and coffee in the aftertaste.
O: Excellent drinkability. Perfect Imperial Stout. Thanks to Dennoman 6 years after the first bottle!
[ RB Review @ 06/07/2019 ]
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330ml bottle served in a Duvel tulip glass. 2010 Edition - Best before March 2014.
A: Pours a dark brown almost black color forming a big sized thick, creamy and thin bubbled beige head: Solid. Medium to low retention and lots of spotty lacings left in the glass. Lingering and molasses.
S: Strong roasted malts combined with coffee, dark chocolate, vanilla, candy sugar and dark fruits. Strong notes of oak. A bit metallic. Light oxidation notes.
T: Slightly sweet upfront followed by roasted flavors. Coffee, dark chocolate, caramel malts, toffee, candy sugar, licorice and vanilla. Notes of oak. Oxidization hints. Medium and not very persistent bitterness.
M: Full, heavy, creamy and molasses body. Low carbonation. Roasted malts, dark chocolate and coffee in the aftertaste.
O: Excellent drinkability. Well hidden alcohol. A perfect Imperial Stout. Thanks to Dennoman!
[ BA Review @ 07/25/2013 ]
Collaboration between two of the most innovative micro breweries in the Low Countries and the starting point of a whole series of interesting black beers. Thick and mousse-like, dark beige head, colour uniformly and totally black, not allowing any light to shine through. Very complex and powerful aroma of coffee, cacao, dates, iron, cinnamon, peat, tobacco, dried plums, liquorice, ashes. Very thick, creamy and oily mouthfeel, almost ’chewable’, sweetish and profoundly malty, some iron, complex spicy notes of pepper, cinnamon and liquorice, in the end a more coffee-like toasted bitterness with aromatic hops and warm, lightly tingling, gin-like alcohol, very long and very complex. This is what happens if two already very profound beers are combined to perfection.
Massive pitch black imperal stout. I think they used saaz here. Strong earthy spicy vegetables character near the coffee and dark chocolate. Fantastic!
Kolsvart med ljusbrunt skum. Doftar och smakar massor med kaffe och choklad! Riktigt bra öl!!
Sample at Hel en Verdoemenis tasting
Big gusher. Fortunately the brown colour of the foam is very beautiful, so it was quite a sight. We did manage to get a decent amount of beer in our glasses. A black beer with a brown head. Aroma is slightly sour, but that disappears completely in the taste. Taste is a bit alcoholic with coffee and chocolate and some woody dryness.
Notes from backlog. Lots of chocolate, coffee, roasted malts and a touch of vanilla.
At my place with Taylor, Thomas, Scott, and Samantha. Aroma is massive disgusting green bell pepper, way spicy, vegetable, gross. Taste is vegetable, some burn coffee, bell peppers.
shared a 2009 bottle with 2 friends. beer flushed out of the bottle like a fountain. poured dark brown / black with a big caramel head, a lot of thick yeast at the bottom of the glass. smell is like a red wine / port after it’s age. strong malty taste, with coffee, dark chocolate, dark fruits, bit sour, bit to boozy. nice to try this old version. but I’m more a fan of the younger versions. so my rating goes out for the old version. never had the fresh version of this one. so It could have been a lot better. anyway it’s still a good beer do!
2010 Bottle shared at tasting, pours black with thin beige head. Light lacing. Aroma is molasses, fudge, char, and dark plums. Flavor is dark chocolate, toasty malt, coffee, pudding, and licorice. Syrupy mouthfeel. Classic tasting Russian imperial from these two. Solid
Bottle. 13.0%. Best before 03.14. Pours black with a dark tan/light brown head. Good lacing. Great aroma; lightly roasted with dark fruits and a hint of vanilla. Flavour is tart and roasted with a distinct rum/whisky-blend note, as well as dark fruits. Dry finish. Overall really good and well-balanced. 05.10.13.
330 ml bottle. Black pour with a fast disappearing mocha head. Roasted malt, liquorice, coffee, cocoa, very inviting. Roasted coffee beans gives way to dried dark fruits, ash, dark chocolate, molasses. Full body with lower carb. Note... Drank an Aged bottle, liquorice note a bit less pronounced, dark fruit a bit more prevalent. Less ashy also. Go figure. Still awesome
Unfortunately completely flat... Especially unfortunate because it is a 750ml bottle. Tastes great but no carbonation makes Homer something something.
Taste is roasted (can even detect hints of birch ashes), again with loads of sweet liquorice, soy sauce, espresso with sugar. Body is full, thick and creamy, but with some prickly carbonation on the tongue.
Black with dark brown foam. Low carbonation. Very well balanced beer. Aroma of dark fruit, chocolate, roasted malts, coffee and port. Full of taste. This is world class!
Pitch black color. Tons of dark chocolate, fudge, bourbon, cacao, very intense nose. Big boozy mouth, slightly sour, tons of cacao, dark fruit, fudge, totally intense and over the top. Lingering fuge and dark fruit fruit. Warming, but alcohol is well hidden in the mouth. Good winter warmer that is why I am drinking it in June?!?
33cl bottle at home. special thx to David. Shared with Mathieu87.
Appearance: pitch black beer, nice stable mocha head. Beer served in ’snifters’.
Nose: coffee, smoked, very little oxidation already noticeable, sugar, port, alcohol, chocolate, burned malts, red fruits (mostly berries and cherry), wood. Has a rather sour nose, somewhat like a Flemish red sour ale.
Taste: coffee, red fruits, sugar, chocolate, long lasting taste of alcohol and coffee, though very sweet.
I wonder if this is really just a mix of 50% Black Albert and 50% Hel & Verdoemnis. There are some tastes in it that I could never find in either of the beers, could be the aging process as well of course!
But amazing beer!