Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel

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

Rated to celebrate my rating number 12,300. Bottled. A pitch black beer with a huge dark brown head. The aroma is sweet though with an acicic note of coffee, hops, and bitter chocolate, combined with citrusy notes. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of roasted malt, great coffee, alcohol, citrusy hops, and dark bitter chocolate - everything is powerful in this beer, leading to a bitter quite hoppy and citrusy finish, but also with underlying strong notes of roasted malt and coffee.

Bottle 50 cl. Pours completely opaque black with a dense and lacing light brown head. Aroma of sweet vanilla and sweet burned malts. Full-bodied, again sweet vanilla, chocolate and burned coffee accents with an extremely pleasant and smooth mouthfeel. Lightly malt bitter finish - but stil smooth, smooth, smooth. Yummy. 280209

Bottled at Sorbon, Stockholm. Very black with small beige head. Rich aroma of coffee and licorice. Sweet and full bodied, honey rounds of a solid body, coffee is ever present. Sweetness reaches a level where it starts to clash with bitterness, but chocolate softens it. Feels a bit more edgy and less pleasat than most Beer Geek stouts.

50 cL bottle. Pours a lovely black and dense fluid with a huge creamy and solid deep chocolate brown head. Light antiseptic note to a solid chocolate, roasted malt and smooth coffee aroma, light hoppy accent. Mouthfeel is fullbodied/thick and creamy smooth. Flavour is lovely chocolate, light marmelade/jam fruity too from the hops and sugars just emerging out of a solid dark malt impression. Slowly increasing bitterness into the finish yet quite smooth. Somehow I liked the bitter coffee notes from the one-on-one marginally better than this, the Civet Coffee certainly gives more room to the beer flavours with it’s more subtle chocolate and bitterness notes. Smooth dark chocolate and mild sweet yet also bitter finish. Lovely.

Bottle 50cl. @ home.
Clear sparkling dark black color with a huge, creamy - rocky, excellent lacing, fully lasting, light brown head. Aroma is light heavy malty, coffee, moderate roasted, chocolate, moderate to heavy hoppy, citrus - orange, pine. Flavor is light heavy sweet and bitter with a long long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is creamy - oily, smooth and soft, carbonation is soft. Very nice beer Mikkel and then the story in the news ! [20090130]

Bottle, 10.9%. Mild grassy hop aroma. Sweet liquorice. Black colour, seems clear. Small stable brown head. The first thing I notice is the distinct grassy hop aroma. It is good, and it has a hard bite. Then there is a powerful malt base, sweet and sticky, roasted and with barley bitterness. Sweet, but well balanced by both alcohol, bitterness and hoppiness.

Bottled@Sorbon, Brommaplan, Stockholm. Black colour, small brown head. Aroma is very sweet alcoholic, malty, licoracy and chocolaty. Also some slight hints of coffee and smoke as it warms up. Flavour is quite much the same, but the balance seems to be out there still. Not that impressed. Probably needs some age.

Bottle. Pitch black coloured with a medium sized fast diasappearing beige head. Roasted aroma dominated by dark chocolate and coffee with notes of hops and pine needles. Roasted flavour of coffee, chocolate and pine needles with notes of hops and alcohol. Dry roasted and warming alcoholic finish.