Mikkeller Drikkeriget DIPA

Mikkeller
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Copenhagen V, Denmark

At a tasting, thanks DSG for sharing this one, pours orange to yellow with a huge cream color head, aroma of cherries, grapefruits and marmalade, quite sweet with vanilla, cherries, grapefruits and salty tones as well, nice complexity yet watery texture.

Bottle sample at a tasting. Brought by my from Bierkoning in Amsterdam. Cloudy orange with a big white head. Aroma of citrus, resinous hops and some cookies. Bitter resinous flavor with a bit of sweet maltiness in the background and a light alcohol hints in the finish. Medium-bodied.

Bottled. Golden, tiny pale head with solid lace. Little solventy nose with ruber and some grain, mild fruity hops, surprisingly quiet. Flavor has loads of sweet pale malts, some alcohol, spicy amarillo and citric fruits, tho not that boasting. Balanced exotic bitterness and yeast in the finish. Full bodied, soft strong carbonation. Strangely modest aroma, otherwise pretty standard.

Bottle (from Ölkonsortiet, Aalborg). A bit hazy ambery orange colour with big fluffy off-white head. Nice lace. Aroma is fruits, spices, zest and mildly grassy notes as well. Flavour is fruity, grassy, hayish as well as some sweet caramel hops and mild alcohol. Quite fruity, but very bitter, in the finish.

Bottled (BB 01/11)@Pikkulintu
Orange, a bit hazy color, cloudy off-white head, lots of lace. Very grassy, bready and twisted yeasty aroma. Flavor is also very grassy, lots of "hop juice", but also kind of cardboardish notes. It’s drinkable, but I am not a big fan.

Pours golden with a large white head. Aroma is light caramel, grapefruit, peach and citrus hops. Flavour is caramel, nice medium hop, grapefruit, peach and citrus.

Bottle. Pours a clear yellow beer. The aroma is hops. The flavor is flowers and hops. The palate is bitter and round. Overall a good beer.

This is a great little beer. Nothing overly profound, but definiley excellent. Looks quality, pours deep golden with a slight haze, but all-in-all not too cloudy. Lovely 1/2 inch thick bright off/white head. Aroma is delicious, has some wild strawberry notes, some nectarine, orange peel and a lovely spiciness. Flavour is spot on, comes across as rich but remaining clean. Bitter lemon and grapefruit balanced by some lovely caramel/toffee notes from the malt and barley. More spices, ginger or cinnamon-like. Good bit of fresh grass during the mids-finish, also some great rhubarb and custard wafting around in there, with a boiled sweet-like sweetness. Ends bitter with some soapiness building up, some resin also. I’m playing down the fact that the beer is actually quite complex, but I’m enjoying it too much to go on writing. Just got a taste of some lychee emerginf right at the tail end of the finish, sitting nicely at the back of the tongue. Spot on!