Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel (Islay Edition)

Mikkeller
Brewed at Nøgne Ø
Style: Imperial Stout
Copenhagen V, Denmark

It’s pitch black with a dark brown, creamy head. The aroma has strong notes of peat but also earth, ashes, smoke, chalk, whisky and chocolate. The mouthfeel is oily. The flavor has a light sweetness and notes of peat, smoke, wood, ashes, chalk, light coffee and chocolate and the finish is dry and chalky and ashy. IMO it’s a pity to put the nice Beer Geek Brunch Weasel in an Islay barrel.

500 ml bottle. Black and does not let much light through. Medium-sized beige head that clings to the glass. Wooden aromas with notes of oak, alcohol and vanilla. Roasted malts and a texture that is rich and very smooth. Velvety. Peaty smoke. Strong Islay character come through towards the end. Characterful, but rich and balanced. A very nice beer. Especially if you do like Islay whiskys. Sharp flavours linger towards the end. Marvelous beer.

Tasted at the first, great, Borefts Beer Festival 2009 @ De Molen. Black colored brew. Very heavy whiskey aroma. Flavor is peated malts, whiskey, coffee. Too heave on the whiskey.

Enjoyed with breakfast@RBNAG2009, Vatlandsvåg. Dark brown to black in color, with a yellow-brown cream head. Intense aroma of peat, wood, leather and whisky. Full malty, sweet and sour, with a bold bitterness. Predominant wooden whisky flavor. Notes of tar, salty licorice and charcoal. Warming alcohol throughout. Unbalanced and agressive, yet a great experience.

Bottle. Rich aroma of tar, smoke and burned coffee. Very dark brown colour with brown head. Interesting flavour with a mixture of liquorice, coffee, tar and lots of smoke and wood. Soft mouthfeel, but ends up dry and bitter from the hops. A wood- and whiskeylike aftertaste.

Bottled at Örebro Öl- och Whiskeyfestival. Completely black, rich brown head. Sweet and full bodied with lots of licorice and peat. Bold, but not assaulting. Hugely malty, lots of coffee, lot of whixky. Salty peaty bitterness. Ramps up things perhaps one step too far, but manages to stay on track.

Bottle at home - fell off a truck or something. Black beer, dark brown head, probably the darkest head I’ve seen! Strong smoke and peat aroma, BrewDog Paradox Smokehead comes to mind. The beer base is robust, but the finer aspects of the weasel intestines are perhaps wasted here. A velvety background for a frontal attack of smoke, peat and engine oil. Long smoky tail. Magnificent!

(Bottle at Pikkulintu, Helsinki) Poured black with small brown head. Aroma contained smoke, tar, peat and whisky. Palate was full bodied and dry with medium carbonation. Tasted of smoke, peat, roastedness, coffee, whisky and bitterness. Whisky, smoke and roastedness in aftertaste. I think this is an really excellent combination. Islay whisky characters are clearly present but it still feels that you are drinking beer and not whisky.