Mikkeller 黑 / Black

Color is intens black, the beer has a great viscosity and it is topped with a nice and stable warm brown fluffy head. Aroma is very powerful and is highly complex. First the coffee and dark sugars are comming forward, along with these primery sensations there is also some chalk-powder, tarmak, peck, orange based liquor like Mandarine Napoleon or Grand Marnier but also some stuff like Tia Maria. Like the Riedle Bordeaux glass filled up with this fine crafted beer is smiling to me, more complex aroma’s are showing up. Earth, fruit confit, mango and confiture d’ognion. In the end there are tons of hops that are super fine integrated in this masive brew. Taste is build like a B 52 with a lot of explosives on board The mouthfeel is balm like and very smooth, it is soft and complex sweet with an outstanding body of the best possible sugars, roasted coffee beans, black chocolats and top XO cognac. It reveals an extreem boost of hop bitters and a kicking spiceyness that works well with the body-warming well covered 17% of alcohol. Aftertaste is mega-complex and lingers on for a very long time. A big beer with with an outstanding elegance. Sorry guys, but this is top notch, Full marks for me. I do taste all my beer in the best possible conditions, DO YOU ? ? ?

The single most extrem beer i have ever tasted! It has a perfect appearance/aroma and when it hits your mouth a series of different, yet in perfect balance, taste explosions evolves, ending in the wildest hoppy feeling, that just keeps going and going and going...

Oh, this is a monstrosity. Pure black nectar with a shy pancake head that finally amounts to something half way through the pour. It just sits there, the whole session. Strong aromas of bitter cocoa, roasted coffee bean, leather, and molasses. Full nectar like pudding on the palate with superb carbonation for something so dense. Huge chocolate malt backbone is sliced and diced with surgical precision by a sharp aspirin hop component. The whole sip is a battle zone thrashing and cutting between malt and hop. The flavor is intense and moderately sweet with huge bittering to balance. The alcohol is high and mighty yielding crazy mental abstractions from thought to sip. The finish is as memorable as your fist broken limb or ER suture. Wow! This one gets my Trump card.

Style and Glass: Imperial Stout; Snifter ABV, Volume & Calories: 17.5% in 12.7 fl oz. estimated at 400 C Purchased at: Canal’s Lawrenceville, NJ for $18.99 Neither of those (17.5 or 18.99 or 12.7 fl. oz. ) are typos. Aroma: amazing, coffee, cocoa, hay, barnyard, oak, alcohol, ether. Visuals: world class packaging, blackness, midnight, deep woods, solid, thick, viscous, staying tan head, intricate lace. Taste: nicely balanced, off the charts in malt and hops, a new level of strength. Superb. Palate: highest quality, syrupy texture, long dark finish. Overall: The DFH 120 minute IPA of the world of imperial stouts. All others pale. It is without a doubt the best beer I have ever tasted in my life. I will go and clear the shelves of it, whatever the cost. It’s not only a favorite, it is my new superlative standard. Highest value for the highest craft. Mikkeller is only posing as a human.

[Bottle] Black as my soul! Brown foam, aroma of burnt sugar and chokolate. Taste is coffee, chokolate and burnt sugar. A beer to be tasted in small doses, atherwise it will get to much.

bottle from Stone. A great beer. Deep dark brown with a fizzy brown head. Huge alcoholic nose, sweet caramel and chocolate aroma. The taste is not overly sweet for a 17.5% beer. Thick syrupy palate. Chocolate, caramel. mild coffee and vanilla taste with a huge alcohol presence.

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.

Finally got around to sample this one. As black as can be with a somewhat bubbling short lasting brown head. Also looks like the thickest beer i’ve ever seen. The aroma is completly overwhelming, on one hand its vinouse and full of alchohol, like a good quad. But on the other hand it has all the character of an impy, tons of aroma hobs, smoke, roasted malts and loads of suger. Flavor is a huge mix aswell, but overall i think the molasses is the dominating ingridient giving is a very syrup like texture and honneylike sweetness. Behind all the molasses is a sharp alchohol burn, and tons tons tons of malt and hob notes numbing your tastebuds. I loved the experience this beer gave me, but after 20 cl i’ve had enough for the time being. I think i could spend a whole evening on one bottle, and when done i could taste it all night. Definetly gonna buy a few to store years to come.