Mikkeller 黑 / Black

Mikkeller
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Imperial Stout
Copenhagen V, Denmark

Bouteille verte de 375 ml, avec bouchon de caoutchouc, obtenue via Importations Privées Bièropholie. Arôme: Odeur de café et de chocolat avec une pointe de petits fruits et d’alcool. Apparence: La couleur est noire opaque. Présence d’un mince col beige mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de café avec une pointe de chocolat au caramel et d’alcool. Longue durée de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement crémeuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Présence d’amertume du café en arrière goût. (Rating #2606)

375, foiled, corked, and baled. Pours jet black, with a loose, sudsy, surging, sloppy burnt tan head. Plenty of lace, and, even after a fair little while, a decent slurry of foamy film across the top. And this is not the newest bottle by any means; it has been sitting for 8 months. Roasty, plummy, highly boozy nose--boozy enough to give you a bit of a headache. Creamy medium body. A bit oily, but not especially sticky. Roasty, chocolatey, plummy, licoricey, and quite boozy mid-palate. Very good, very attention-grabbing. Not completely amazing but certainly not a disappointment at all.

Bottle shared at Uber during the Cascade night festivities. This stuff was horrendous. Vokda burny nose on top of some dark roast and sweet dark fruit notes. Pours black with a thin head. Very think and viscous looking. More vodka burn in the flavor that detracts from everything that this beer could have offered had it been like 5% less alcohol. I guess there were dark sugars and roast, but the booze was too abrasive to help me enjoy and of the subtleties. This one could have used 4 more years to soften...

Bottle, thanks mgumby. Black with a milky white cap on the top. Silky looking. Alcohol forward nose but does not detract from the oil of bergamot, patchouli, and roasted malt aromas. Very chocolatey, roasty flavors with cinnamon. Overall, killer shit!

375ml Bottle: Complex aroma. Smells of alcohol, chocolate, mocha, burnt malts, sugar, piney hops, and coffee, among other things. Poured pitch black in color with a thick, creamy, dense, shaving-cream like head that lasted throughout. Opaque. Beautiful head. Good lacing. Flavor of alcohol, bunt malts, mocha, dark chocolate, coffee, rubbing alcohol, and piney hops. Full body. Thick, chalky texture. Soft to average carbonation. Lightly dry, burnt finish.

Thanks to Mikkel from Mikkeller for letting me be the first to rate this MONSTER. 37,5 cl bottle with cork. Tottally pitch black colour with a huge stable light brown head. Very incredible aroma of coffee, roastedness, chocolate, port-like and hints of alcohol and hops. Very powerful and totally fullbody flavour with notes of bitter hops, alcohol, sweet syrup, kandis, roastedness, dark chocolate and hints of dried fruit. Mikkeller created a MONSTER, I dont think I have tasted a beer this intense. I wondered about the chineese label but when tasting the beer I experience fireworks. Definatly one you have to try if you can handle so much power.

The aroma is very much like a sweet espresso with molasses, soy sauce, and burnt malt. The appearance is so dark brown it is approaching black but a thin tan head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thick. Overall it’s just too much for me.

(Bottle) Compact black colour with brief, foamy, brown head. Roasted, malty nose with ashes, burnt wood, liquorice, cola, dried fruit, raisins, tobacco, brown sugar, dark chocolate and espresso. Sweetish. Intense, roasted, malty taste with sweet liquorice, ashes, sweet espresso, prunes, raisins, molasses, cough-medicine, liquorice root and dark chocolate. Lots of brown sugar sweetness. Full body with oily texture. Some coffee bitterness, but it’s overshadowed by everything else. It’s probably a bit over the top and way too sweet, but I still like this uncompromising beer. Seriously heavy stuff and obviously with a certain bite. I’ll probably save my second bottle a couple of years, a little more balance wouldnt’ hurt.