BrewDog Mikkeller Devine Rebel

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Barley Wine
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

11.2 oz. bottle. Batch #243. Bottled on: 07/05/09. Mine says 12.1% ABV. A murky copper pour with a thin sandy head. The aroma features candied sugar, caramel, plums, prunes, vanilla extract, and grapefruits in the background. A full, syrupy body. The taste is quite sweet upfront with a tangy transition and a bitter, drying finish that lingers. Candied sugar, caramel, plums, prunes, and vanilla extract are all evident. Grapefruitiness at the end. There is just a bit of an underlying oakiness throughout. Warming alcohol is present, but not nearly suggestive of a 12.1% ABV.

Bottle. Pours deep orange brown witha thin head. Malty sweet aroma with notes of dried fruits. The flavor has dried fruits, caramel, berries, and a little bit of boozy hotness. Pretty good.

Pours pure deep copper with amber like hues and then a tan head on top. The aroma has solid notes of apricots, plums, prunes, raisins and ripe cherries. A big draw quickly brings up solid boozy nose searing heat. The taste is full of sweet dark fruity goodness to go along with caramel candy and a light roasted maltiness that brings this whole thing together nicely. Toward the finish a modest amount of booze heat murmurs up from time to time.

11.04.09 bottle. Pours amber with slight head. Aroma is sweet, candy, spice, subtle hop, and mild alcohol. Tastes toasty, sweet, subtle alcohol, slight fruity, slight citrusy. Oily mouth feel.

Aroma of prunes, dried fruits and toffee. Rich flavour with lost of caramel and some roasty flavour, hints of oak with a slight sweetness, but not cloying. I get a slight hint of the Speyside whiskey in the flavour but less in the aroma. Probably started drinking this too cold, so let it warm up a bit more and aroma came out more.

Bottle from half time in poughkeepsie. Pour is transparent brown. Tastes of maple syrup and spices. Hides alcohol very well.

Bottle: The aroma consists of caramel, toffee, apple, and faint whiskey. It pours a hazy amber with a small off-white head that quickly fades to a thin ring along the outside edges of the glass. The flavor starts with lots of caramel, toffee, and faint apple. The finish has some light citrus hoppiness, faint oak, and whiskey. It’s medium bodied with mild carbonation.

Pours amber. Nose is big sweet toffee, hints of booze, whisky, fruit esters. Flavor is sweet toffee and caramel, sweet fruits, mild spices, yeast and hints of whisky and wood.