Mikkeller Barrel Aged Black as Coal

Formerly brewed at Mikkeller
Style: Imperial Stout
Copenhagen V, Denmark

Botella. Thanks a bunch big time for sharing this gem Pinball. Pitch black colour with a rather short lasting dark brown bubbly head. Lovely roasted maltiness in the aroma along with lots of dark fruits, alcohol, dark chocolate, lots of coffee and bitter hops. Great filling mouthfeel. The flavour is bustling with roasted malt, lots of coffee, dark chocolate, alcohol, bitter hops, wood and spice. Long lasting very roasty bitter coffee chocolate alcohol finish. Great beer indeed!

Tap at EBF Copenhagen 2008 ... One of the Highlights of the Festival ... Deep Black (as you would hope) rich mellow roast malt nose ... Lots of chocolate and a little tobacco ... sweet toffee ... more chocolate ... wondefully smooth and complex... low to mid bitterness... soft moth feel

On tap at the beer festival in Copenhagen 2008. This one is a dark and heavy bastard taht defently is worth sharing. Pours deep pitch black with a darkbrown head. The nose is fruity in a vinoes way combained with Mikkellers caracteristic hoppy sidenotes. It has a dry and full mouthfeel and a taste with chocolate, cofee and wood that witness of a perfect barrelaging. The chocolate is clear and the sweetness is wellbalanced with a good amount of bitterness. The finish is sweet like a deluxe cake-dessert...serve it with wipped cream. Good job Mikkeller #122

Dark, dark brown, black. Has a beige head, fully lasting. Aroma has a lot of dark notes too, coffee, burnt malt, roasted notes, real dark. Warming alcohol. Flavor is moderate sweet and heavy bitter. Full body. Soft carbonation.

At EBF: Pitch black with tiny head. Strong burned malty aroma with strong notes of dark chocolate, spices, coffee and liqourice with hints of wood. Flavours is mainly bitter with some sweetness. Long powerfull bitter finish.

Draft - Black black body with a very dark brown small bubbled head; Lots of fruits in a dark malt nose, super deep, very very well composed and balanced; Soft textured and carbonated body, full, very well balanced, very, deep, sweet, very slightly acid that is mostly covered by the carbonation; Very long finish, a little to sweet but together with the biting bitterness it becomes very good. Interesting brew that as a hole is balanced, but moves trough a lots of different elements to get there with the soft sweetness, salts, the carbonation, everything being important.

Draught at EBF. Black, brown mocha head. Dry coffee and oak on the nose, grain and little vanilla. Flavor is almost the perfect example of barrel ageing, oak, vanilla, syrupy sweet malts, little alcohol and a herbal liquorice finish. Full bodied, smooth palate. What a balance.

Had this at European Beer Festival, Kobenhaven 12-09-08 . Poured shark eye black which in my book is a little bit darker than coal, so maybe Mr Mikkeller should rename this ’Mikkeller Shark Eye Black’ very thick consistency, nice oily hops, oily texture, bitter coffee, bitter chocolate, some dark fruit. They’ve certainly packed a lot into this beer but they can and did do better stuff at this beer festival.