Mikkeller Barrel Aged Black as Coal

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

Sampled with beerbiker and stepdad, thanks for a great evening! Black! Roasted malty aroma with some fruity notes, honney and port wine. Thick thick moutfull. Lots of fruity sweetness in the flavor aswell along with roasted and burned malt and coffee notes. Great coffee finish and overall just very very complex. My favorite in the 6-pack.

HUGE thanks to Ibrew2or3 for the share. Pours a rediculous black with a near black head. Nose is BOOZE!, coffee, vanilla, burnt roast malts, chocolate, liquorice and soy. Huge booze flavor, heavy roasted grain, bitter coffee, bitter hops, loadas of chocolate. Finishes a biting alcohol sharpness and sweet. Thick and chewy. F’n amazing!

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

On tap at the European Beer Festival, Copenhagen. Black, with a small brown head. Chocolate, sugar, more chocolate, coffee and hops in the aroma. Really lovely and big. Very sweet flavor with alcohol, piney hops, roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Finishes in the same way and lasts for quite a long time. Full-bodied, almost sticky sweet and warming in the mouth. A really complex and big beer, maybe qualified for a 4.6 rating. Gorgeous. (080912)

25 cl bottle received in trade from Theis poured a translucent black with a lasting brown head. Aromas of oak, charcoal, vanilla, roasted malt, coffee, licorice and a hint of fruittiness. Palate was medium to full bodied and smooth with a dry warming finish. Flavors of roasted malt, coffee, oak, vanilla, licorice and dark fruit with a smooth dry warming lingering roasty finish. This was a very impressive tasty Imperial Stout! I wish I had more.

A Mes rate. Bottle thanks to the top bloke that is Harrisoni. Well, black as coal is certainly right. The initial pillowy tan head has now settled to a faint collar but nae bother. Aroma is rich as hell and certainly warming but maybe just a little too tarry for me to really get my rocks off. The flavour however is full on pan handle material. I’ve only had a few sips and already there are little coals of joy stoking up a bonfire in my belly. Massive Mikkeller craziness. Dark and dominating, demanding I don a gimp mask and let it put clamps on me turnips. Somehow I stay focussed and out of S&M gear and carry on drinking. The alcohol is huge and kicks a path to your stomach leaving a perverted sting in its wake. Plenty of brute force is added by some insane hoppage which links up with with some fat chewy malt that it finds down an alleyway and they both slap you round the head til you are short of breath. More punch is added by some angry carbonation which you can feel aaaaaall the way down baby. Mad as an angry spanner munching frog. Tastier than Sophie Ellis Bextor. Yet another thing to love Mikkeller for...

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.

Draught at EBF. Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Exstremely powerfull malty and hoppy aroma. Very powerfull bitter flavor. Creamy palate. Truly a great beer. Bottleversion: 9-4-8-4-16= 4.1 Great vanilla notes.