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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
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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?  
 SudsMcDuff (1691), was CapeTown,SA-now Houston, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/56/104/512/20
Apr 11, 2009  
pours a murky yellow amber .. . come on darling, stiff upper lip ... .big healthy white rocky head .. . pretty tasty, light sweetness, some sugar pill dust .. . pretty clean finish, feels good in the kisser ... lacks complexity, but enjoyable and easy to drink .. .


 BeerBunker (601), Burbank, Illinois, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/512/20
Apr 4, 2009  
750ml corked bottle. Pours rusty orange with a frothy beige head. Lots of carbonation. Aroma is of hops, citrus, tobacco, sugar, malt, and mild alcohol. Taste is of sweet hops, citrus, tobacco, sugar, and malt. The whole beer tastes extremely earthy, with lots of dirty malt and sugar. Mouthfeel is light, almost fizzy from all the carbonation. Very drinkable, but needed more of an alcohol presence. Good though.


 OleR (2007), Oslo, Norway
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/516/20
Apr 2, 2009  
750 ml corked bottle enjoyed@Olympen, Oslo. A hazed orangey-golden body topped by a massive, frothy offwhite head. Strong and inviting citric and floral hop aroma paired with a light peppery, caramellish and deliciously sweet malt scent. Taste has light sweet, well prononced, yet soft malt base, balanced by a grassy and fruity hopbitterness. Notes of mild spices and pine. Well-bodied. Smooth. A fine bitterness in the finish. Powerful, clean and balanced. I like this beer a lot.


 Muggus69 (483), Sydney, Australia
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Mar 29, 2009  
750ml corked bottle. BB 13/12/09 Served chilled in pilsner glass. After two consecutive games of soccer, I feel like I earnt this! Pours a picturesque deep, slightly hazy, golden body with a sizeable, dense white head leaving clumpy lace on the way down. Nice nose packed full of fruity hops. I get some honeydew, peach, bitter orange and grapefruit along with plenty of grass, pine and peppery spice leading onto a backdrop forged of rich caramel maltiness. Full body that hardly gives a thought towards the strength, good soft carbonation, smooth job all-round. Excellent balance of bitterness and malt sweetness. Resiny hops upfront on the palate; bitter orange in bucketloads, unripe tropical fruit, pine and cedar, earthy spice and pepper. Malt body makes its presence heard towards the finish, that lingers with orange and spice and a thirst quenching bitterness. I wouldn’t know what hit me if I were to quaff one of these bad boys without prior knowledge. Good balance, plenty of flavour, without being cloying or sharp. Very nice!


 JohnnyJ (1282), Carlsbad, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/514/20
Mar 27, 2009  
Pours a light amber gold with large white head. Quite hoppy, with bready malt, toast, sweet caramel, and pine. Overall it’s alright and drinkable, but nothing special.


 luckygirl (1221), Boulder, Colorado, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/513/20
Mar 26, 2009  
Yeah yeah yeah. I’m rating a beer. From a 750. Beer is light-to-medium orange-amber colored. Head is initially very large, light beige/white, frothy/creamy. Mostly lasts as a thick, creamy skim. Bare tree branches of lacing cling low in the snifter. Lazy pin-prick bubbles trail a bee-line to the surface. Aroma is straightforward; pleasing. Malty with moderate notes of toasted bread, lighter undertones of toasted cereal, caramel cookie; Hop aroma is moderate/heavy pine resin, trace of strawberry; Yeast is present as just the faintest trace of sweat; Miscellaneous trace of white pepper. The flavor is moderately bitter in a lean/dry way, just a trace of sweetness to an otherwise lightly bitter/dry and long finish. Hint of astringency accompany piny retronasal aromas. Aftertaste left is sticky and resinous. The body is medium, the texture is watery/creamy and the carbonation is moderate. Bit piny to be a session beer for me and wouldn’t fill the bill if I were craving a straight up pils, but all-in-all it’s a fairly engaging variation.


 gam (1059), brisbane, Australia
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Mar 22, 2009  
Large frothy head good carbonation orange misty but great looking beer aroma stonefruit malt sweetness hoppy flavour nice bitter and tangy fizz first up grapefruit peach pine a caramel touch some yeast fairly dry beer good hop taste very sweet fruit at the finish with a fizz and bitter dry


 johndoughty (2150), cheslyn hay, West Midlands, England
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/514/20
Mar 22, 2009  
Bottle. Yellow with a medium head.Pleasant aroma upon opening.Bitter but not overpoweringly so. Full bodied and well balanced. Dangerously easy to sup.Nice.



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