Mikkeller Draft Bear

Mikkeller
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: European Strong Lager
Copenhagen V, Denmark

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.

Golden of color with an off-white head. A fruity aroma with some notes of malt, citrus and grass. Hoppy, pine bitter flavor with a citric fruity note again balanced with some malty sweetness. Very well balanced.

Tap at the Danske ÖLdager Köbenhavn: Clear yellow/red colour, with a flat head. Aroma of lots of flowers,fruits,hops and hay. Flavor is almost the same, nice medium to full body.This is the best IMP Pilsner Ive had try. Long hopy fruity finish. Nice again Mikkeller!

Pours yellow/gold, with a lrge, white head. Aroma is subtle, but nice. Hops, floral notes, and grass. Flavor is hops, caramel, and malt. A simple beer, but a fun and easy one to drink.

Bottle - Golden to amber clear body, huge creamy long lasting white head, leaving beautiful lacing; Beautiful, beautiful nose with lots of very fine malty elegance, toped in a fine and balanced way with pleasant flowery hop aromas and softened by a fine amount of alcohol sweetness; Huge body in any way, huge quite big bubbled carbonation, very malty big and very quite malty bitter, balanced slightly sweet; Evolving into a very big finish where the Imperial touch really shows, very powerful again with a big amount of both malty and hoppy bitterness, flower and resin aromas, backed with very pleasant malty aromas as well. By far the best Imperial Pilsner I have had, but also the freshest. The only drawback is that it almost finishes to bitter.

From a 750mL Bottle. Transparent, orangish brass colored body with a large head of rocky white. A mild sulphury, lager bite centers the attention on a sweet grainy malt base and some orange citrus hops. Fruity notes from the hops, but not a lot of pungent bitterness present in the nose. Touches of maize. White pepper? Medium-full bodied, crisply carbonated mouthfeel with a sweet, plodding texture. Simple grainy malt profile, light, sweet, with hints of corn. There is a respectable amount of hop bitterness that tries to help counteract the grain sweetness, but it has a bit of an oniony flavor that’s a bit off-putting. Pine needles, but the hops never really are able to create a refreshing sensation amongst the heavy malt character. It’s got a great lager crispness and cleanliness, but the malt sweetness and hops don’t really work well together for my tastes.

Brown bottle, 750 ml, best before 13/12/09, savoured on July 5 2008, via Importations Privées Bièropholie; eye: copper, clear, nice effervescence, nice tan head that turns into a sheet, lots of lacing; nose: bitter hops, resinous hops, grapefruit, light grainy malt, light caramel, spices; mouth: refreshing, bitterness, bitter hops, light resinous hops, light caramel, light orange, light pepper, spices, finale in bitter and resinous hops with a hint of grapefruit, creamy texture, lightly sweet, mildly bitter, medium-full body, average carbonation, lights astringency; overall: quite likable FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 750 ml, meilleure avant 13/12/09, via Importations Privées Bièropholie, savourée le 5 juillet 2008; œil : cuivrée, claire, belle effervescence, belle mousse fauve qui se transforme en un petit tapis, beaucoup de dentelle; nez : houblon amérisant, houblon résineux, pamplemousse, léger malt granuleux, léger caramel, épices; bouche : rafraîchissante, amertume, houblon amérisant, léger houblon résineux, léger caramel, léger orange, léger poivre, léger alcool, épices, finale en houblon amérisant et résineux avec une pointe de pamplemousse, texture crémeuse, légèrement sucrée, moyennement amère, corps moyen-corsé, carbonatation moyenne, légère astringence; en résumé : bien aimé

Once you use amber malts and American hops it is outrageous to pretend this is a pilsner. It’s like trying to pass an Imperial Stout off as a superior pilsner. That said, this is delightful, sort of midway between a double and a triple American IPA, somewhere between Founders’ Double Trouble and Devil Dancer for bitterness and safely below their Devil Dancer for alcohol. Rich amber, not a pils. Cascade and Amarillo, with heavy notes of citrus and pine, not a pils. Great creamy mouth. Beautiful hazy gold with a huge foamy head, almost like a big Belgian. Just delightful. And a bonus point for pulling this off at 8% alcohol, also not a pils. Or a stout. But if I had thought I was buying a pils I would be truly angry.