Mikkeller Black Hole

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

Pours an opaque black with a dense tan head. Aroma has roasted coffee, dark chocolate, dark fruit, and some hops. Flavor is rich and bold with chocolate, licorice, coffee, and darkf ruit flavors.

Pours opaque, deep brown with a full oatmeal colored head. Nose is chocolate and coffee. Flavor is the same, with a hint of smoke. A bit of a burn in the finish.

12.7 oz. bottle. After having a glass of this year’s release of the SPH RIS yesterday afternoon, I figured I’d follow that up with another great imperial stout this morning for breakfast. Pours black with a moderate light brown head that lasted until about mid-glass. Very pleasant aroma of coffee with notes of roasted malt and some citrus as well. The flavor begins with plenty of coffee and roasted malt flavor, which gives way to a seriously bitter finish. Its difficult to tell if the bitterness is from the coffee or the hops, and I suspect its probably both. Kind of dry, chalky mouthfeel which was a little off-putting, otherwise a solid coffee stout.

Tasted 2008-02-17. 6 months old bottle. Pours black with brown head. The head rather quickly disappears leaving it looking very much like a strong coffee. Aroma: coffee, roasty, caramel, chocolate, grass, leather, earthy, alcohol, liquorice, wood. Flavours: coffee, caramel, chocolate, grass, medium bitterness, slightly salty. Very full body, oily feel, soft carbonation, bitter finnish. Great beer!

Bottle. Pours very black with a tight, grayish dark tan head. The aroma at first makes me think of a barleywine, what with the alcohol, strong spicy maltiness, woody hops, and sweet caramel. But then I get wafts of chocolate and coffee as well, along with a really weird medicinal, antiseptic note. That strange antiseptic quality is the first thing I notice in the flavor, too, and much more strongly. It’s seriously like mouthwash. I think the combination of the slightly biting herbal hops and the alcohol combine in a way that makes it resemble the mouthwash I typically use. I just can’t shake the association, and it’s ruining the beer for me bigtime. But if I can pay attention to the rest of the flavor for a minute, it’s got a nice roasty quality to it with occasional hints of chocolate, smoke, and nuts. The finish is surprisingly bitter with plenty of alcohol warmth. Herbal hops linger in the aftertaste for an eternity. This has the potential to be pretty good, but the whole mouthwash deal is more than I can take.

12.7oz Bottle - Trade - jmikolich
Aroma – Huge black malt and dark crystal malt aroma. Chocolate and coffee all through out the aroma.
Appearance – Dark Black color, Then head and clear? Well it might be clear.
Flavor – Tons of stout flavor, Deep dark chocolate and coffee. This was super.
Palate – Great Mouthfeel, good texture with a dry finish.
Overall – Huge Impy Stout this beer will give your grandchildren hair on their toes. Huge flavor this is a sipping beer and a great finisher for the night.

Pours a black color with a thin brown head. Aroma is molasses, coffee, and roasted malts. Flavor is malty, caramel, molasses, roasted malts, and a bitter hop finish.

Poured from a 12.7 oz corked and caged bottle and served in a snifter. This imperial stout poured an opaque black with a small head of dark tan foam that settled into a thin layer, lasting throughout most of the glass. A healthy amount of clingy lace was left behind. The aroma of the beer was made up of strong coffee notes, citrus hops, charred malts, and some chocolate covered cherries. The flavor consisted of burnt malt, smoke, a heavy dose of espresso roast coffee, mild grapefruit bitterness, and an ever-present alcoholic note. The mouthfeel was heavy and full-bodied with light carbonation. Overall, this was a really nice imperial stout, but the coffee bitterness and alcohol overpowered the rest of the flavor at times. Otherwise, pretty good.