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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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3163.72/5.03.7/5.08%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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 SpringsLicker (2043), Tennessee, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Jan 12, 2009  
Pours a huge white head over a deep orange body. Sweet malt aroma with a hint of hops. Sweet with a light bitterness.


 Emil (6074), Copenhagen, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/515/20
May 15, 2007  
Draught. Yellow colour with a white head. Citric, american hops aroma and a light sweet malty, citric, hoppy taste. MEdium body with a dry finish. Quit nise!


 joergen (8597), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
May 19, 2007  
Draught. Clear golden coloured with a white head. Fruity aroma with lots of hops and pine needles. Hoppy flavour of pine needles with fruity notes. Dry hoppy finish. Lacks some complexity.


 argo0 (6907), Washington DC, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/56/103/514/20
Dec 2, 2007  
(750ml bottle, thanks kmweaver) Small white head atop clear amber body. Aroma is moderately sweet, floral/orange, grapefruit, light honey. Taste is medium sweet, straw, grassy, some grapefruit. Medium body, light acidity.


 skortila (2903), Bunnik, Netherlands
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/514/20
Sep 13, 2007  
3rd LCRBM. Aroma has hoppy fruits. Slightly hazy, golden coloured with a white head. Taste is a bit sweet with more bitterness in the finish. It has fruity hops and a touch of malts. Nice. European strong lager?? Didn’t know I liked it.


 JorisPPattyn (5171), Antwerpen, Belgium
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/514/20
Jun 1, 2007  
Old golden beer with slight orange shine; huge, dense variable head as whipped eggwhite. Fresh hoppy nose, USA and/or UK hops, very lemony; lemoncake with lupulin. Very dry, hoppy taste, the same as announced by the smell. There are some drafts of malt beneath, as some overnight piece of apricot & lemoncake, and maybe some lunaria, but generally speaking, there’s nowt but hops, hops, and then some more hops. Medium bodied, quite slick; aftertaste (not really new) are unending hops, and a bit burning MF. Well... Imperial Pilsner, huh? It’s unidimensional if anything. This bear walks on socks, we’d say over here. Big thanks, Chief lachesis!


 rlgk (3377), Vårgårda, Sweden
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Aug 30, 2007  
(RBESG 2007, Glasgow. Bottle) Golden color, white head. Malty, bready aroma but most of all hoppy. Hoppy flavor that also brings some spices.


 jerc (3911), 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



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