Mikkeller Chinook IPA

Formerly brewed at Mikkeller
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Copenhagen V, Denmark

Very hazy chessnut colored beer with reddeish-orangey glow. The beer has a small creamy beige head that leaves a nice lacing. First impressions in the nose gives aroma of herbal shampoo. The smell is nutty and leaves impressions of green nutpeel, lemongrass, wild flowers from the Alps, green tea, kamille flowers, bitter caramel and touches of the pits of exotc fruits and tropical wood. This Chinook has a dry powerfull bitterish attack with a green and vegetal caracter. It has loads of hints that reminds me of unripe nuts and laurell leafs. The middel pallet is very dry and clean bitter. The bitterness is green, herbish, slight minty and has hints of fresh birtshwood juse. For those who like a big dosis of herb juse beer, this is the one.

Bottle: Amber with a tan head. Fresh pellet hops in the nose with some grassy notes behind. Over-the-top grassy flavour present. Some refined pine, but overall a little green. Medium-smooth. Nice to see Mikkeller experimenting, but the Chinook is not for me. Cheers Papsoe.

Bottle. Clear orange coloured with an off white head. Aroma of pine needles, hops and citrus. Flavour of pine needles, hops and citrus. Long dry hoppy finish.

(on bottle) harsh, poweraroma and taste here. Both has mild pine, heavy citrus and fresh cut grass in them. pale orange color, off white head. A nice, clean brew, but somewhat single-hopped in a unbalanced way.

The aroma is very hoppy, flowery, and grassy. Grapefruit as well? The appearance is hazy, orange, with a huge head. Very bitter with lots of different notes from the hops ballanced by the malty sweetnes. Dry aftertaste. Wery much my kind og beer!

I needed a special treat for my rating number 5500 - so I picked this. A hazy dark red beer with a huge light brown head. The aroma is sweet and very hoppy, flowery, and grassy with some reminicence of grapefruit, but also hints of caramel. The flavor is sweet with a malty slightly toffeish background, which is very fast overpowered by the hops, which at first are grassy and grapefruity, but also quite quickly turn wild with loads of bitterness drying out the mouth and leaving You with a bitter grapefruity flavor that lingers for a long time. Good, but on my tastebuds maybe just over the rim, which I think in part is due to the single variety used - mix in some Cascade.

Pours a hazy dark amber with some white foamy head. Nice lacing, some speckling as well. Nose is awesome, a flowery juicy citrusy goodness. Bready and yeasty, yum yum. Taste is a fruity hop explosion. Pineapple, apples, apricots, and oranges greet the palate. Nice a good earthy dark malt comes into play, not too sweet. Finishes with a nice dry cocoa and careml thing going on. Has a rather nice yeast funk throughout as well. Next time in Denmark, I will be trying this again.

Bottle courtesy of Madsberg. Pours a dark amberish/copper color with a white foamy head. Nose is very malty, alos very hoppy, very well balanced, some yeasty funk notes as well. Taste is crisp hops and a flavorful sweet and tangy malt that blend together perfectly. Light citrus and some more light funk follow up. Excellent thick mouthfeel and a suiting bitter finish.