Mikkeller Black Hole

Mikkeller
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Imperial Stout
Copenhagen V, Denmark

Black, oily pour with a tan head. Aroma of chocolate and coffee. Flavor is big and heavy, sweet and chocolatey with a very sweet alcohol finish. Creamy mouthfeel, but the sweetness detracts. Coffee is really an afterthought in this one. Dude was right, about a 3.8.

Bottle 37.5.cl. Pours and oily black color. Aroma is chocolat,coffe,dark fruit,vanilla,honey and some alcohol. Taste is about the same as the aroma with lots of sweetness and coffee,chocolat,dark fruit and some alcohol. Creamy mouthfeel.

Bottle. Pours black with no head and has some sediment. Dark chocolate aroma with a hint of sweetness. It has a great heavy roasted chocolate flavour and the alcohol doesn’t overpower the taste. It finishes a bit bitter, and I wish there was a more dominant coffee presence in the flavour. It sits nice and thick on the palate.

Bottle. Pours black with absolutely no head and no carbonation. Aroma of bitter chocolate, roasted malt, and alcohol. The initial sip was super chocolatey, but this flavor faded almost immediately. Lots of raisins, roasted malt, and alcohol. Very heavy mouthfeel with a harsh palate. Gets a bit dull by the end of the glass. Meh. This would be better with a slightly lower abv I think. 7/3/7/3/15 (3.5/5)

Second blackest beer that I have tasted. Aroma of roasted coffee, flavor of Starbucks dark roast with a bit of chocolately bitterness towards the end. Very nice indeed.

Bottle. Pours a black body with a thin tan lacing. Burnt coffee huge alcohol latent fruits and a big licorice flavor. Not balanced by any means as the alcohol runs wild throughout this one. Good but not great.

Bottle from Monument. The green bottle kind of took me aback, given that Ive never had good luck with green or clear bottles. Brown or can have been the only mediums that have worked for me. Poured a black with tannish head. The malts in this one are strong, sweet and powerful. This tastes like a coffee candy you have at grandmas house. Hot on the aftertaste. I sense the touch of licorice everyone is talking about. There is something about Viking malts that differ from Mid European and American. Its present in Haand Bryggeriet. Nogne and Mikkeller.

Bottle that I purchased in Ølbutikken, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sept 08. This beer poured black, really black, grimping mire black with a brown head. There is an immediate intense bitterness to this which you sense over the hand rubbed hoppy aroma that comes straight from this. There is also some burnt maltiness and liqourice. The aromas are replicated in the mouth but rather alarmingly I dont get as excited and whilst I can appreciated the effort that has gone into this beer after saving it for a few months I feel a bit disappointed, Loz on the other hand loves it. I keep on sipping this and wonder if it is me just tiring of these hoppy Impy Stouts. I try again and get a real bitterness along with the liqourice, some dark coffee, and bitter, bitter chocolate but the hops come in like a bull in a china shop and bludgeon the life out of everything else. This is a good beer with a touch more subtlety it could have been great. A8 A4 F6 P3 OV 13 3.4