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Mikkeller Draft Bear

Mikkeller Draft Bear - European Strong Lager

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95
overall
Mikkeller
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: European Strong Lager

Copenhagen V, Denmark

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
3123.72/5.03.7/5.08%98.8Lager glass
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Commercial Description:
Brewed by Mikkeller at De Proefbrouwerij in Lochristi, Belgium.

’Fad bamse’ is a highly hopped and dry hopped imperial pilsner with a light body and lovely crispyness from the lager yeast.
A Danish pilsner is typically characterized by an alcohol content of 4,6% vol., piss-yellow colour and a sexless, slightly bitter taste. But it doesn’t have to be like this…! Draft Bear is Mikkellers interpretation of a ’pilsner’, heavyweight-style. With its powerful hop notes, high alcohol content and lovely golden appearance, the only reference to the pilsner style is the clean taste of the lager yeast.
Ingredients : Water, malts (pils, carapils and amber), light candy sugar, hops (amarillo and cascade) and lager yeast.
 Most Recent Top Raters Highest Ratings Who's Rated This?  
 vyvvy (2023), Hazelwood, Missouri, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/103/515/20
Apr 18, 2008  
More gratitude to the STL guys for sharing another choice beer. Pours golden / amber with a light off-white head. The aroma has lots of pils malt, grassy hops, cream, smoothness, some sugariness, light onions and grapefruit. Medium crisp body with normal pils style carbonation. The flavor starts more pils-like than most of these impy pils beers. It is grassy with lightly sweet pale malt ans spicy. The finish remain grassy and is very clean. Nice beer.


 blankboy (3165), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Apr 18, 2008  
Bottle (750ml) shared with HogTownHarry, tupalev, jerc & mabel -- courtesy of HogTownHarry. Pours a very hazy orange-amber with an average size lasting frothy white head. Nice hoppy aroma along with caramel malt, some grain and fruit. Flavour: Mmm, that’s tasty! Pleasantly hoppy backed by caramel malt. Nice long bitter finish. Alcohol’s reasonably well hidden. Medium bodied. Very good!


 Beerlando (2284), Orlando, Florida, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Apr 16, 2008  
Pours mostly clear, very lightly hazy, orange-amber body. A bubbly, fizzy, off-white head leaves minimal, spotty lacing behind. The aroma is quite hoppy, showing notes of wild grasses, orange rind, and moderate resin over doughy yeast notes and sweet, pale malts. The flavor puts the dry hopping on full display, with the potent grassy and citrus notes being balanced by a considerable, bready, sugary sweetness. The substantial body is sticky up front, moving towards a dry, bitter, slightly astringent finish. Decent brew, but a little strange and just off target.


 pantanap (1323), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Apr 14, 2008  
bottle from west lakeview..... pours a semi hazy orange brown with a thin soapy white head..... nose was primarily of light tropical fruit hops and citrus notes..... flavors continue on a similar path. sweet sugary malt with tropical and citrus fruits. light and fluffy on the palate but nothing to make this one shine.... expensive but worth a try in my mind.


 emacgee (1859), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/517/20
Apr 13, 2008  
Pours a substantial golden amber with a one finger white head. The aroma is fairly strong, sweet, bitter hoppy, a little grassy and citrusy. Bitter waxy flavor, sweet, sweet, rich, light alcohol. Nice to try But I would like it in something smaller than a 750 for cheaper than 14 dollars.


 MoDog (909), Griffith, Indiana, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Apr 13, 2008  
Poured from a 750ml caged and corked bottle and served in a tall lager glass. This beer poured a slightly hazy dark golden hue with a huge, rocky head of beige foam that would not disappear. Excellent lacing. The aroma of the beer was made up of freshly mown grass, clean pilsner malt, and orange zest. The flavor included mildly bitter citrus, pine, mild caramel, along with a lightly alcoholic bite at the finish. The mouthfeel was full-bodied and a bit sticky with light carbonation. Crisp and hoppy and a pleasure to drink.


 jerc (3861), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Apr 13, 2008  
2008-04-10. Golden amber body with a good sized white head that fades (3+ Moderately hoppy aroma, modest resin and ephemeral citrus notes. Pleasant bitterness up front tin the flavour picks up a slowly building alcoholic hitch hiker that is a touch distracting, but not as prominent as it could have been. Pleasant lingering hops have pleasant resin and ambiguous citrus notes. Average plus palate. (3+) Pretty decent. Bottle shared by HogTownHarry


 Walt (2289), Chicago, Illinois, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Apr 12, 2008  
Pour is hazed orangey amber with a big bubbled off white head...smell is faintly sweet, with lots of soapy and citrusy hops coming out...taste is nicely sweet up front and throughout with a moderate hoppy citric flavor balancing out the sweetness...this beer is really tremendously drinkable!!!!



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