Mikkeller 黑 / Black

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

Bottled 375ml. Courtesy of Bov. Aroma: Shōchū, Christmas pudding, wood, marzipan and sherry in the nose. Flavor and palate: Walnuts, Christmas pudding, marzipan, cherries and late roasted impressions showing up. Full bodied, complex and warming. Reminiscent of cough syrup and Shōchū. Wonderful salty finish. An atypical Imperial Stout. Thanks Bov!

375 ml bottle. Pitch black. Medium-sized beige fine-laced head. Motor oil. Papery and tight. Clean metallic hop aromas. Clean and nicely balanced. Intensely flavourful. Sweet and interestingly roasted. Wonderfully hopped. I love this. Very sweet flavours that are balanced by sharp hops that don’t punch you directly in the face, like in many of their other beers.

[At Carlsens with Hans Ole.] Totally black with fluffy coffeehead. Fat aroma of coffee, sugar, burntness, chocolate and heavy alcohol. Flavor of the fattest sweetness ever, oil, complex hops, dried fruits, and more notes than ever before noticed. All ending up very bitter. What a miracle!

Holy shit. This is insane. Incredibly hot, acrid and acidic. Aroma of shoe polish on leather. Deep, dark, charred, acrid malt. Fusel alcohol, diesel fuel, asphalt and insanely charred coffee. Pours a surprisingly thin charcoal/brown with a dense but quickly disappearing khaki head. Flavor is loaded with bitter, acrid, charred espresso. Ashy. Marlboro. Grain alcohol soaked dark chocolate. Tarry. Chewing on hot asphalt. Acid. Burned anise. An absolute trainwreck. Bracing in its acidity. Heartburn in a bottle. Big, sticky, hot, cloying, acidic, acrid, charred body...ugh. The godawful tarry finish lasts forever. Paired perfectly with an unfiltered Lucky Strike.

Poured from a 12.7 oz. bottle, thanks to Tyler. Tepid charcoal pour; topped with a thin skin of greyish brown. Dirty honey, plastic bubblegum, unripe honeydew, mango and kiwi aroma; a fully oppressive weight of metallic coffee grounds and searing motor oil and deliriously tart apple cider. Aceteldahyde and raw smoke heat. Heat. Lush, acrid, tropical, asphalt in jungle summer heat. Flavor screams raw spices, wet graham crackers, wholly unattended to light roasted coffee, tangy barbecue, pain. Pain. Aspirin and cherry cough syrups; aggregiously abrasive and completely jagged on every edge. Robitussin, even. So hot and violent and crushing and completely reckless with total malicious affront on the palate; mean in spirit, forceable, acrid earthiness. Syrupy, and wholly reminiscent of espresso steeped at highest capacity and then burnt while brewed at core of the earth temperature; bit of lemon juice and burnt peanut shells lingers with indifferent, careless acridity and ugliness in the finish. Searing pain on the internal organs here, which is a bit incomprehensible and shockingly palapable. Ulcer forming. Shit.

Holding on to this bottle for a while, pours deep viscous black with a thin tan head with a big complex nose. Coffee, roasted malts and alcohol. The flavor is the same with the addition of sweet stone and vinous fruits. Creamy mouthfeel.

Black colored brew. #1100. Aroma is alcoholic, spiritus, whisky. Flavor is vinous, whiskey, strong alcoholic, strong bitterness, licorice. A bit controversial, but I like it.

Very Very different! Bottle thanks to Bman1113VR’s girlfriend. Drank with both of them. Pours a thick motor oil like body with a brown creamy head. Nose is like smoked bacon (maybe wood smoke), booze, chocolate, rum cake, more wood, and brown sugar. Taste is very sweet and I would equate it to a coffee port. Mouthfeel is amazing, like silky water if that makes sense, (due to the sake yeast) it there is even a punch of cedar in the finish. Warming and pretty long finish. I have not had something this unique in a very long time.