Mikkeller Festival Special Edition 2009 – Stella 0

Mikkeller
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: American Strong Ale
Copenhagen V, Denmark

Sampled at DØE Beerfestival 2009, Valby. Pours a redbrown beer with no head. The aroma is hops, good fruity. The flavor is nice hops, malt and sweetness. The palate is dry and has a good body. Overall a good mixed beer.

Bottle @ RBESG 09 Shefield ...Now as my Wife is Called Stella ... it was delight to dicover that At last she tastes lovely ... and that she comes in 1.5litre bottle ... Copper ... wonderfull big pine resin nose ... bitter but sweet toffee malts ... huge pine ... 101% hops ... rich sweet and full.

Bottle. Coppery red brown colour with medium head. Aroma very hoppy and malty at the same time. Taste most of all very hoppy and quite sugar sweet as well, boozy and cloying. A weird brew. This one is going for too much and gets too boozy and unharmonic, very astringent. As said early too much of everything.

Bottle, big thanks to Alexander for this one! Pours a copper colour with a large white head. Quite a lot of lacing. Aroma is interesting but rather peculiar with strawberry jam(!), lots of caramel/toffee, citrusy hops, flowers, a bit nutty, and even alcohol (it feels this is a quite strong one...). There’s also some dried fruits. Flavour is sweet and malty with lots of caramel, but also flowers, fruit candy, citrus, really bitter grapefruit, strawberry jam, salt, liquorice, almost a bit of wood/oil in a weird way, and some warming alcohol. Finish is really bitter and it stays in the mouth for a long time. Fullbodied in the mouth, texture is somewhat sticky/slick, and the carbonation is soft. A very nice and complex beer. Some parts of the beer is slightly remiscent of Double Bastard, I think.

1.5 l bottle at PBF. Reddish brown color. Sweet aroma with juicy american hops, lemon, mango and hint of solvent. Bittersweet flavor withstrong hop buch, toffee, nuts, lemon, mango and pine.Thick body and sticky mouthfeel, no drinkability. Too much everything.

Biggish coarseish beige head. Opaque muddy reddish body with carbonation. Intense resiny citric eucalyptus aroma. Sweet-bitter citric eucalyptus and resin taste with alcoholic notes. Rounded, smooth, and sharpish. Fullish body. Bitter intense sandalwood, eucalyptus, and citrus aftertaste. Not entirely unlike Fisherman’s Friend. Lovely! (1.5l bottle shared by KnutAlbert.)

Draught @ Ølfestival Valby - CBF09, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Clear medium brown amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, grapefruit, orange. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090515]
8-3-8-3-16
Draught @ Lord Nelson, Hyskenstræde 9, 1207 København, Denmark
Clear medium brown amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, heavy hoppy, pine, spruce, citrus, grapefruit. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light to moderate alcoholic. [20090517]
8-4-8-4-16

Pours reddish brown with no head. Sweet nose and flavor of caramel, citrus and other fruits. Some earthy hops as well.