Mikkeller Barrel Aged Black as Coal

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

Entered to celebrate my rating number 14,400. Draft and bottled. A pitch black beer with a hug dark brown head - maybe the darkest brown head I’ve ever seen. The aroma has notes of sweet malt, roasted malt, alcohol, chocolate, and wood. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of sugar like dextrose, roasted malt, alcohol, dark bitter chocolate, and coffee, as well as medium notes of wood, leading to a dry woody and alcoholic finish. The alcohol and hops tickles the palate.

(On tap) Pours completely opaque black with a small light-brown head. Intensely sweet aroma of burned malt and dark sugars. Very full-bodied with hard roasted malts, sweet and sugary. Subdued bitterness but alcohol galore. Strangely salty and ashy. 120908

From tap. Pour dark brown to black with a lacing tan chocolate brown head. Aroma is mild chocolate malty with a light hopy note and smooth fruity accent. Smoked and lingering sweet flavour with a solid hoppy bitterness into the finish. Nice marmelade fruity and sweet mix. Nicely balanced and lasting into the far finish. Quite close to the brunch brew. Rated on the toilet, what a pleasure....:)

Draught at European Beer Festival, Copenhagen. Very black. Intense aroma of vanilla, menthe and tar. Sweet and compact. Powerful and woody with tocbacco and tar in sugar. Thanks to excellent well structured soft malt the inetnse sweetness doesn’t go overboard. A really complex mega-beer that works very well.

Draught at EBF 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark. Clear medium to dark black color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, caramel, coffee, peat, iodine. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is syrupy, carbonation is soft - flat. [120908]

EBF08. Good hoppy aroma. Black colour, no head. Sweet alcoholic flavour, roasted, liquorice. Good.

Draught@EBF2008. Black colour, small brown foamy head. Aroma is coffee, some mild roast, alcohol and wood in a nice balance. Flavour is fruits, dark dry fruits, dark malts and some tones of chocolate and vanilla. Aftertaste has vanilla, dark fruits and mild toasted notes.

Darught at EBF 2008. Pitch black (darker than coal) with a medium sized beige head. Roasted aroma of coffee, liquorice and alcohol. Sweet and roasted flavour of coffee with notes of dried fruits, liquorice, chocolate and alcohol. Dry roasted and warming alcoholic finish.