Mikkeller It’s Alight!

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

Bottle from Bruisin’ Ales in Asheville. Pours hazybright gold with fizzy white head. Nose of lemon, wood, brett, sour apples, and some mild banana. Lovely aroma. First sip is similar but ends ashy and weird. That aspect seems to settle down and the flavors are more like the aroma. A bit of a thin finish, but this is lovely, and I love the low abv. You had me at "Belgian Wild Ale."

11 oz bottle. Pours a cloudy yellow color with a small white head that quickly dissipates to a faint ring. The aroma is strong with sweet apples, pears and some funky sour grapes. The flavor is similarly funky but much of the fruit promised in the nose never materializes in the taste. The palate is somewhat thin and watery, with fizzy carbonation. The finish is short and funky. Overall: I like the funkiness but this beer just falls apart with the weak palate.

Bottle... Poured hazy golden with a thick, white head. Really potent Brett all over the aroma with the horse blanket, barnyard funk. Nice dry beer. And it’s great that it’s 4.5%. A lot of beers like this brewed in the states are much stronger with the abv. Light fruit flavors, with the bretty finish. Acidic and bacteria-like yeast notes all the way through.

33cl, new Danish brew Anno 2008, from Slijterij van Bergen Eindhoven, not complex sour brew, yet refreshing, balanced, cloudy, small head, nice brew

aroma was grassy, hay, saison-like, then whoa.......the taste. this beer tastes like piss. not piss-like, but actual piss. i legally can’t talk about how i know, but trust, i do. really bad beer

11.2oz bottle. Pours hazy straw color, topped with an average sized white head. Beautiful, funky aroma with lactic acid and lemon the primary fragrances, and wheat and sour apple in the background. Flavor is wheat and wild yeast for an instant, then a totally unexpected peaty, ashy flavor enters the mix. The flavor is not as alluring as the aroma. Finishes with an earthy, peaty flavor, along with some wild yeast. Not bad, but the flavor is much more impressive than the taste.

Very clear pale gold. Some particles floating, but not cloudy. I did not pour the dregs from the body. The aroma is funkier than the flavor with sour apples and very light horse blanket. The flavor is much less sour than expected from the flavor, but the slight tartness is quite refreshing. One of the more chuggable sour ales I’ve had.

Bottle at Pizza/Birreria Paradisio. Pours a hazy yellow gold with a thick dense creamy white head. Nice big brett and funk, big and cheesy. Sweet, not as funky as the nose would suggest, but a nice big brett component. Dry and more brett on the finish. A little thin and one dimensional, but still tasty.