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Mikkeller Draft Bear 3.7 318

Mikkeller Draft Bear

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

Copenhagen V, Denmark

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
3183.72/5.03.7/5.08%98.8Lager glass
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.
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 Dorwart (1828), 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.


 rederic (1815), montréal, Quebec, Canada
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Oct 31, 2008  
750ml bottle, hazy amber-orangeish hue, with beige head, leaving some laces, nice floral hop nose of citrus, and faint peachy fruitiness, with some leafy, grassy accent, with some sweet honeyed pale malt notes, in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a sweet honeyish pale malt, fruity, spiced hoppy character, with a mild piney, coniferous accent, with a hint of mintiness, leading towards a sweet malty, hop leafy bitterness finish.


 thornecb (1804), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Mar 30, 2008  
Pours deep gold into a lager glass. Fluffy white head collapses and laces upon itself. Caramel and slight grapefruit aromas. Smooth and crisp with nice balance.


 Lumpy (1802), Carrollton, Texas, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/58/104/517/20
May 15, 2008  
Bottle. Body-orange/yellow hazy, loose quarter inch off white head with moderate lacing. Nose-soft medium hops, light grapefruit/PNW hops 9amazingly hoppy), light white spices, smells like a cold, stale, clean refrigerator, light perfume. Taste-high CO2, chamomile, flower petals, rose water, clean Belgian yeast, very clean, perfect medium sweetness, light bitter on the backend. Beautifully done.


 lithy (1800), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Nov 17, 2008  
decaturstevo’s 2008 Zapit Tasing Tasting. Sample from a bottle thanks to SpringsLicker. Hazy deep yellow with a frothy white head with falling sheets of lacing. Nose is mostly strong adjunct type malts. Light hoppiness. Taste is heavy warming sweetness, pale malts and a finish of hops.


 Palidor19 (1791), Brandon, Florida, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/514/20
Jun 17, 2008  
a solid tasting beer, with many flavors. the flavor is crisp malts and the hops give a floral and slight piny like taste. The mouthfeel gives a nice heavy palate. a great beer.


 pilsnerrogge (1789), Finspång, Sweden
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/518/20
Jul 13, 2007  
[75 cl corked bottle] Hazy amber colour. Big frothy head. Fruity apricot-and-orange hop aroma. Flavour is all about hops; a bitter, hoppy flavour that lasts "forever". Dangerously drinkable; I finished that big bottle in no time then wished I had another one.


 JCB (1786), Durham, North Carolina, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Jul 14, 2008  
750ml bottle from Bruisin Ales, Asheville, kindly delivered to me by my bud Turdferguson - thanks, Sam! Big pour, with a fluffy head and pale translucent orange. Very spicy hops on the nose with some mild fruits backing it up. A trace of booze right in the front as you begin to taste it, with some crisp, weirdly gin-like notes in there. Lots of pepper, maybe some Hallertau hops here? Full and creamy mouthfeel, but I just don’t find the beer to be that interesting.



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