Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel

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

Bottle; cellared a few months. Beautiful pour: a short lived thick chocolatey head atop a dark obsidian body. Redolent of chocolate and coffee, oak, some cola, licorice, dark fruits, and subtle citric hints that are reinforced by the alcohol. Flavor is roasted coffee with dark chocolate undertones, creamy milk chocolate, cola, vanilla, oak, at this point the bitterness basically obliterates the sweetness, then the alcohol kicks in and cleans it off the palate leaving chocolate and dark fruit flavors atop the tongue punctuated by an oaky sweetness. The palate is really smooth but very light for an Imperial Stout, somewhat surprisingly so in fact. Superb craftsmanship and a fantastic beer.

Bottle thanks to Daknole! Dark chocolate with tan head. Slight sourness at first, then aroma becomes black licorice, cola and some fruits. Clean, gentle mouthfeel is soft. Lovely brew with smooth balanced flavors, impressive.

Bottle. Pours an almost black, brown head that was hard to produce, reduced to wispy edging. Aroma is a nice blend of coffee, chocolate and malt. Flavor is a mirror image of the aroma, coffee, bitter chocolate and malt background. Finish is really smooth and creamy with a very slight touch of hop bitterness, but it’s almost non-exsistant. Really well done coffee stout, I have several put away to age.

Pours with a black body topped by a thick, brown head with lots of lacing. It’s roasty and bitter with notes of coffee, malt and bittersweet chocolate as well as a little sourness. Full bodied, smooth and warming.

a damn good beer but lacking in complexity compared to alesmiths shit beer.....but damn good...expensive as all shit though

T3 tasting. Nose is sharp chocolate and coffee. Malt and smoothness. Taste is soy sauce, salty, prunes and sharp. Wasn’t what I would consider a 100 percentile stout. Good, but not world beater.

Bottle. Finally I’ve got the bottles I ordered a month ago or so through Systembolaget’s "private import". Expensive stuff, but with all the hype around this brew it was hard to resist. Pours an absolutely black color with a nice brown head, which fades away after a while, leaving some lacing. Aroma is inviting with coffee, dark chocolate, some burnt notes, and behind this some citrus hops and fruits. I must say that I wasn’t 100% convinced with the the smell at first, it came out as a bit anonymous but still very good. I was, of course, extremely curious about the taste so I didn’t use that much time to smell. First sip was... wow! What a powerful taste. There’s lots of hard roasted coffee notes, with nice amounts of really dark chocolate, and a big bitterness. Very dry beer overall, which I’ve started to like more and more recently. It’s some light milk chocolate sweetness behind all this which balances well with the other flavours. Some light acidity (in a good way) is also there together with citrus-tasting hops, liquorice, smoke and tar. Wonderful velvety smooth palate, really thick, creamy, oily and fullbodied (almost the best about this beer, I’ve never tasted anything which is as filling as this). Overall just an amazing beer, one of the best I’ve had. I just want another sip, and another, and another... I hope I can save my three remaining bottles a while, but when it tastes this good... it’s hard, but well... I love it!

March 09 I did a progressive BG tasting with Breakfast, Brunch 0ne-for-One and Brunch Weasel. Weasel was the clear winner!! It pours black with tan head. Amazing mix of complex flavours, coffee, chocolate, vanilla, and smoke. Mouthfeel is rich and velvety. I can’t wait to try it again.