Mikkeller ComOn Rauch

Formerly brewed at Mikkeller
Style: Smoked
Copenhagen V, Denmark

Courtesy of boboski!!! Damn, I think half of my ratings are courtesy of boboski. Color is a very deep brown, bordering on black. Aroma is a forceful and beguiling peated symphony of greatness. Should I be wearing a kilt and eating haggis, pondering how the essence of the peat bog has ended up in my glass? The flavor is a delight to behold. An ititial sweetness is overcome promptly by the essence of the smoke, which in turns yields to a maltiness. Awesome a delight to have had such a rarity.

Courtesy boboski. Pours a hazy dark brown with a small light tan head. Wow, quite smoky in the nose. I love it! Very peaty, with some smoked malt and bacon characters. The taste is quite smoky as well, but also has a very profound caramel maltiness too. Some sweet cnnamon isdetectable in the finish and aftertaste. The smoke was pretty massive, but the flavor was complex enough with other flavors to really enjoy it. Very nice.

Dark brown and unclear, has medium sized partikles. Creamy, light-brown head, fully lasting. Aroma: Malt, flowers, yeast, cask wood, smoke/tar. Moderate flavor, salty. Long finish. Oily texture, soft carbonation.

Bottle. Muddy brownish colour with a medium mostly lasting head. Malty aroma and taste with nice hoppy notes. Not very smoked. Lots of yeast in the bottle.

Bottl.e Creamy off-white excellent fully lasting head. Clody brown colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter flavor. Not too smoked but really nice. Long powerfull complex finish. Creamy palate. Good stuff.

Bottled. Cloudy nut brown, rich head. Restrained woody smoke aroma. Dry with clean mouthfeel and fairly lightbody. Some orange make an unusual addition to the medium intensity smokiness. Lightly yeasty. Fairly low bitterness. Very interesting, but I still prefer the more traditional Franconian renditions.

Quickly fading off-white cover over the very cloudy, rather murky dark brown liquid. Well smoked nose, strongly malty, earthy, toffee-like and woody in its smokiness. Covering a certain fruitiness underneath, possibly nectarines and prunes. A bit phenolic in its smokiness, almost band-aidy. A small touch of leafy hops complete the flavour profile. The mouthfeel is quite chewy, thickened by the remaining yeast in the bottle. Very shy carbonation accentuates this feel, but it never appears too sweet. Just nourishing, but I find the yeastiness takes a bit too much room. Not a favorite smoked beer, but a very smokey one indeed.

20060922 Bottle shared at Dickinsonbeer’s O-Fest. This one I’m sure is from MullMan as I’ve got ’thanks Joe’ written here in my notes. Unfortunately, this one did not quite live up to the great hope I had for it. The initial aroma reminds me of an 80s hotel room. Now there’s the first time I’ve used 80s hotel room as an aroma descriptor. What I noticed, I think, was a stale cigarette smokiness at first, coupled with some chemical/minty air freshener aromas. Well, it certainly got better than that sounds. Nice mild aromas of wood, brine, mineral, and it’s kid of oddly seaweedish. There’s a pervasive mintiness up front - it’s odd and reminds me of HW Jakeldricka. Unfortunately flat and rather thin.