Mikkeller Black Hole

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

50 cl Bottle from Capone’s. Onyx pour with 2-finger dark brown head and great lacing. Aroma is dark roasty malt, huge coffee, molasses, and dark chocolate. The palate is rich, roasty, with a huge dark malty flavor mixed with heavy coffee and dark chocolate. The coffee seems to get more subdued throughout, and this one never got hot, which is a plus. This is a very good beer.

Bottle. Black colour with a huge fully lasting brown head. Powerful aroma and taste of roasted malts, coffee and chocolate. Good and complex.

A thread on this site a few days ago asked readers to nominate their favourite brewers from around the planet. If the question arises again, I’ll nominate these guys, because everything I’ve had has fallen somewhere between ’very good’ and ’astonishing’. This limited edition (sob!) imperial stout falls into the latter category. At a Sydney RateBeer gathering with a beer line-up of almost Roman decadence (think Westveletern, Pannepot, Utopia, Fullers London Porter), this one blazed like a supernova. I’m not sure if it’s the best beer I ever tasted, but I’ll be happy to offer a second opinion if Mikkeller forwards all remaining bottles to my home address. Even with the minimal samplings on offer at a group gathering, this one looked gorgeous in the glass - an impenetrable black that actually sucked in light and forced us to turn on more lamps. Okay, I made that up, but it was an infernally dark beer. A man could lose himself in there, never be found. The glass was capped by a luxuriant wash of caffe latte foam. The aroma was surprisingly ’green’ for an imperial stout - fresh hops and pistachios as well as the more expected brown sugars, molasses and espresso. Perfect creamy mouthfeel - wheat flakes? Lovely stuff. Rich and endlessly complex on the tongue. Thickly alcoholic, with the coffee running rampant. Mocha, Bourneville chocolate, port, dark rum, all those good things. A riot in a glass and everyone goes home with a sackload of good times. I think I’m drunk on the memory. Duff - you are a true champ for sharing this one with the Sydney crew. Onya mate. (Sydney RateBeer Jan 07 gathering)

Brown-black, very thin head. Sweet smell dark chocolate and tootsie roll. Faint alcohol bite. Tates initially sweet, with licorice, chocilate and coffee flavors.

12.7 oz bottle: Aroma is floral but dirty. Muddy malt characteristics meld with a syrupy chocolate note that comes across as a truffle, nice caramel notes with a undertone of day old campfire clothes, some dark raisin notes, a really roasty note finishes off the aroma. No scratch that some very light fruity hop notes coming through as well. Really nice aroma to say the least. Appearance is dark black with a minimal tan head that lingers around for a while. Taste is mouth filling. Transforming with every sip. Wonderful roasted malt, chocolate, liqour, and caramel. A very nice Impy stout. I like this alot!! Cheers!!

This is a beauty! Dense black with a brown head a an aroma from heaven: Sweet, liqurice filled and with perfect notes of coffee, hops and roasted barley. The flavour is intense and filled action-packed. Coffee, roasted barlye, hops and vanlilla fools around your tongue. The bitterness is bastand and does it’s job very well countering the sweetness. Theres so many adventures to expirience in this beer. Seems like it never stops...

Bottle on 11/30/2008 at the 3rd Annual Richmond Industry Gathering. Dark black body with ruby highlights. Big roast, molassas and hop aroma with lots of coffee. Coffee flavor with light roast and hops. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation. 8/5/9/4/17 - 4.3 03/29/2008: Richmond Industry Gathering 2007. Dark black body with a light brown head. Heavy bitter aroma with some caramel and chocolate. Heavy malty flavor, strong bitter, chocolate and molassas. 8/5/9/4/18 - 4.4

Bottle shared by Sliffy at Columbus Tasting 7 - Thanks Dan! - Poured black with a short tan head and a little lace. Aromas of chocolate, dark fruit, and a good amount of coffee. Flavor is chocolate, coffee, dark fruits and a good amount of wood. Amazingly full smooth oily palate that is verys oft in the mouth. Low carbonation and full bodied. Very nice brew!