Mikkeller Jackie Brown

Lovely brownish-auburn colour. Nose of chocolate, nuts and a bit of hop resin. Flavour is somewhat similar. Taste is slightly sweet and chocolatey at first, but finish is very bitter. Perhaps it’s just because I had this shortly after a Fuller’s London Porter, but this reminded me of a porter with amped-up hops, rather than a brown ale.

Bottle and served in standard pint glass: Beautiful mahogany hue with a fluffy off-white head and good lace. The aroma has notes of anise, coffee, bakers chocolate, walnut, charred and crystal malt, and some grassy hops. The taste is shockingly bitter with the coffee and hops attacking the palate with nonsensical brashness. The softer sweet malts and light handed spices are very much a bit player in this act. Dry ashy and chalky finish, like sucking on the husk of walnut shell.

I dunno, part of it is good to very good but that finish is not exactly what I want in my beers unless there is more sweetness to counterbalance the bitterness.

Pours a dark mahogony from the bottle with a cascading head of tan foam. Plenty of hops on the nose with faint licorice. The taste is of burnt espresso beans, dark cocoa, and copper. Silky mouthfeel that ends like you’ve been sucking on a penny. Very distinct brew that’s worth revisiting.

Dark Redish brown pour, offwhite dissipating head. Hoppy, Roasty aroma. Resinous hops overwhelm at the beginning, followed by some bitterness and malt backbone, some subtle coffee roast at the end sneaks up on you. A good offering from Mikkeller.

dark reddish brown pour with small ivory colored head. Hoppy aroma with notes of malt. Flavor has coffee, roasted malt, still some definite hops. Mouthfeel is somewhat watery, but a very interesting and tasty beer.

Im not much of a brown ale fan but this was still good. nose is dark chocolate with coffee , big beige head.hops and alcohol on nose too. hops kick u in the teath on the flavor, then comes the malts well balanced. Like i said still not my fav style but they do some great stuff at this brewery.

A very great brown. Deep and dark with persistent head. Full flavor of charcoal, dark chocolate roast and light coffee. Very solid flavor and malt profile, but not quite the depth (sweetness, thick texture) I was hoping for. Still, a fine beer that I will buy pretty much whenever I see it.

Bottle purchased at Sam’s Wine & Spirits in Chicago. Pours a hazy chocolate brown with a loose, fluffy, light tan head that diminishes leaving sticky lace on the mug. The nose is of roasty, chocolate malt backed by faint coffee, "green"/floral hops and light anise; interesting. Medium-bodied and slick with a bitter-hopped and roasty finish. Roasted chocolate malt, coffee and solid, resinous hops. The hops certainly dominate on this one. I’d be curious to see if allowing this one a bit of time to age would balance it out a bit. It’s very good as it is, but I would enjoy a bit more malt in the flavor profile.