Mikkeller It’s Alive!

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

Bottle from Capones shared with pieypower and his buddy Dave. Poured a tea brown body with an average fizzy white head. Aroma is loaded with funkiness, floral notes, candy(caramel..butterscotch), and slight spice. Thinner body with some fizzy carbonation and an easy finish.Flavor has lots of flower petals, honey and yeast comeing across. This doesn’t quite seem to be a Belgian Strong but not quite sure where this fits in, perhaps a sour ale or something along those lines might work.

Bottle shared by bvc. The aroma is very fruit and yeasty with notes of bretty funk too. Some underlying malty sweetness too. Amber colored brew with a thin foamy head. Flavors of candied oranges and tangerines, soft malty sweetness in the form of grape, pear, light spice, and a good dose of funky dusty bretty notes. Brett dries out the palate as well as the large carbonated effervescence.

Thanks to Dmac for sharing this one. Pours out cloudy moderate hue of copper with 1 finger puffy white head. Aroma is very floral, lavender, rose and some fruit notes with a little funk. Taste is complex and very interesting, lots going on here. Floral notes, some fruitiness, hops candi sugar, funk and some alcohol notes on the finish, definitely very interesting, and well done.

Bottle from knightly spirits. Cloudy orange color with a small frothy white head. Aroma is pretty unique. I get fruit, malt, earthy tones, funk, spices and yeast. Flavor is woody, dry, funky, tart, fruity and damn this is a fun beer to drink and dissect the flavors and aromas.

Nice. Poured with a big yeasty doughy sour apple nose. There’s a hint of orange citrus in the back, along with an indistinct kind of spice. Thyme? Cloudy copper, foamy but not huge head. Wtf? This is a weird tasting beer. Hugely herbal, with a leafy herb character, quinine bitterness that hints at herbal cough drops. There’s some kind of funk but its just a complement to the rest of it. Its almost all over the place. There’s a gentle sweetness that gives some body and oomph. Its carbonic bite keeps the palate from becoming cloyed or overwhelmed by the herbiness. Touches of wood contribute to the herbal bitterness. A bit dusty/earthy in its brettiness. No standard barnyard funk that I can tell. If there’s a fruitiness, its very indistinct and buried. This is the hardest beer to rate that I’ve had in a long long time. Just different and while its doing alot of neat stuff, I’m not sure how much I actually like it!? Well, thank God for big bottles, because a little time with this one has revealed the mysteries. There are just layers of spicy/herbal hops in here, and its generally pretty high in IBU. The funk is restrained but are they going for Orval here?

Purchased at Rozi’s in Lakewood. Pour is exactly as I expected, a hazy orange with a thin cream head on top. Aroma is very interesting, the first thing I though of was.... clean? This beer smells clean? not like metallic and simple, but its got this weird aroma to it. There is a milt fruity sweetness but its really dominated by that smell, that -i’ve got wild stuff in me not just the normal fair. Anyhow, its an enjoyable smell overall. The flavor is well refined, surprisingly, its mellow from the first slightly sweet sip, following with a nice tangerine-like gentleness. I was expecting something completely wild, funky and untamed, but this is the exact opposite. This is one of the smoothest and genuinely drinkable beers I have ever had. Such a nice suprise.

Pours an amber color with an off-white head. Aroma is of caramel malts, dark fruits, candied sugar, floral hops, and just a hint of alcohol. Flavor is pretty strong of the candied sugar at first, decent caramel malts and dark fruits. Lingering flavor that lasts.

750mL bottle. Poured clear medium orangey-golden with a short cap of off-white head.. some lacing stuck as it descended. The aroma picked up soft bready and pale malts with lemon and floral accents surrounding.. spicy, slightly oxidized accents. The flavor had a sweeter base of pale malts and honey with lemon zest and floral bitterness surrounding.. the back came up with a whole lot of Brett-like, dry funkage that stayed through the finish. Medium-bodied with an interesting blend of funky and tangy notes.. the balance wasn’t quite there and the bugs came across as oxidation at several points.