Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel

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

Bottle from Keg Liquors, IN. Coffee, toffee, chocolate aromas. Opaque, black-brown pouring with a dk tan head with large bubbles that lingers. Very rich malty, coffee flavor, hops to balance with a long finish. Alcohol is evident but hidden by the richness of the malt bill. Smooth, full-bodied with a slickness from the oatmeal. A different, amazing coffee with no acidity bite. Lovely.

Breakfast on Christmas Day. My third bottle of this great beer. Awesome looking with a huge, gorgeous head. Great aroma of earthy, citrusy hops then in to massive coffee and chocolate. It’s rich and delicious, so roasty and big, amazing coffee flavour. What a great beer!

Bottle. Pitch black beer with a very strong light brown head. The aroma is fairly strongly roasted, and the flavour is deeply roasted, and very very bitter, hopped and malty. Overall a nice very strongly roasted beer.

This poured s very dark brown color with a big tan head. Aroma was lots of coffee, some chocolate sweetness and some astringency. Flavor was very roasted, some burnt coffee, and somewhat drym with a slight maybe infected finish.

Perhaps my palate is not all that it should be, but this seemed to me to be a slighhtly sour version of Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast, a great coffe stout in its own right, without the hype of weasel droppings to make the coffee more attractive. I should say something about the brown to black opaque pour, the dense velvet mouthfeel, the notes of coffee and chocolate. But actually I preferred the slightly sweeter Breakfast stout. I’ll let the wesels enjoy their coffee in peace.

Please ignore my numbers if you are a impy stout lover for this stuff is certainly on style and I admit it. My problem is that I rate by how much I enjoy it. Had this at the RB Pgh gathering 12/09. I am not worthy enough, beer geeks, to have had the chance to taste or rate this. First off, how sick is it that we make coffee out of weasel droppings? Rare yes, but come on. This stuff was big and black in color and presentation. Thick tan head reminds me of choco moose, heheh. One big rude impy stout and from past reactions to my impy stout ratings I would say the more I dislike it the more an impy stout lover will love it, so if you are one of these lovers, never pass this up if you get the chance to have it. Has some appriciable flavors when compared to many othjer highly rated imp stouts. Most imp stouts are just plain one dimensional but this does have a few attributes which a I can identify. Big, large and in-charge, what else can be said except that it is on style and complex. Rude long bitter linger that just keeps going and going. Had to take a half hour break before my taste buds could taste again. Ruined me for the evening. wew. Weasel turds, eh? What is next?

Been holding out on opening this for a while, so I decided to share it for Monday night’s #CraftBeerChat on Twitter. body is an opaque black, with a thick foamy/rocky tall burnt umber colored head. the aroma is nothing short of fantastic, mildly roasted coffee, dark chocolate bars, roasty malts, a little vanilla, mild licorice candy. Flavor is a wee salty, with nice bitter earthy roasted/burnt coffee malt, some anise/licorice liqueur flavor, and dry high cacao% chocolate. a little charred oak and blackstrap molasses in the finish, with some mild leafy bitter hop and coffee aftertatse. great brew, lives up to the hype. Special thanks to my twitter friends to share the review in real-time! @jimbinder @ChicagoDiane @arikhanson @steveschoon @jeffmello #CraftBeerChat

Ultra dark pour with nice brown head. Nose of coffee, tabacoo and chocolate. Falvor is much like the nose with chuncks of smoke that round out the finish. There are a ton of hops in this thing as well, has a nice bit of bitterness that rounds out the gem.