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Mikkeller Draft Bear

Mikkeller Draft Bear - European Strong Lager

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

Copenhagen V, Denmark

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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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?  
fizzban (27), whitehouse, New Jersey, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Dec 27, 2008  
This is a pretty good malt. Nice citrus aromas, some mulled mead hony flavors on the finish. medium body and nice tite head.


 Radek Kliber (3926), Toronto (Can) Krotoszyn (Pol), Ontario, Canada
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Dec 18, 2008  
Bottle 750 ?ml, Appearance: murky amber with large presentable head (medium density). Some lace on side. Aroma: gentle aromatic hopping , flowery side with mild smooth sweetness , barley and alcohol. Flavor/Palate: full bodied, mushy ,grainy. Oats with bitter hopping following drying alcohol. Interesting unfiltered character with potency hop spiced. Very drinkable , clean strong lager. Solid, world class brew.


 Butters (1622), Virginia, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/512/20
Dec 16, 2008  
At decaturstevos zapit tasting. Translucent orange pour with good white head. Sweet corn aroma. Pleasant caramel malt and earthy hoppiness with some alcohol warming on the finish. Did not care too much for this, but not bad.


 reakt (938), Greater London, England
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/518/20
Dec 16, 2008  
Bottle from BEERmerchants.com. Amber with a thick and lasting off white foam which coats the glass. Nose is sweet biscuity malt, caramel, honey and lots of resinous grapefruit and floral hop notes. Flavor is much the same, good piney grapefruit and sweet malty caramel. Creamy palate with a nice bitter, hoppy finish, slight note of yeast and maybe a little pepper to boot. Wonderful...


 Dorwart (1807), Robbinsville, New Jersey, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Dec 15, 2008  
Good sized sloppy off-white head of varying sized bubbles with good carbonation. Thick sheet of lacing remains long after the beer drains. Light and fruity aroma with some white grape, cereal malts, floral hops and some corn. Slightly misty dark orange. Light crisp and bitter flavor. Dry roasted red peanut skins, flowers, toast and spices. Noticable alcohol presence. Finishes dry and slightly bitter with some lingering heat and spices. Pretty darn good.


 Kinz (2179), Glen Allen, Virginia, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Dec 15, 2008  
VRBT. Light amber. Hoppy aroma. Flavor was light pils malts and a load of floral hops. Quite good. You really can make a good beer in this style.


 BeerHawk (1175), Huntsville, Alabama, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/515/20
Dec 14, 2008  
Bottle shared by Springslicker. Poured amber with a creamy off-white head that is lasting and left good lace. Nice hop malt mix in the aroma with honey and citrus mainly picked out. Sweet malt flavor with a light hop and spice backing. Medium body, crisp.


 tomthompson89 (1459), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/516/20
Dec 13, 2008  
kinda hazy yellowish color, nioce thick foam. nose is piney soapy hops. flavor is similar alcohol, light malts high hops. Well done.



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