Mikkeller Jackie Brown

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

Bomber purchased at D’vines in Washington, D.C..

Pours dark, clear ruby brown, big fluffy off white head. Aroma is smoke, chocolate, coffee, malt, vanilla, pine, anise. This has quite a big aroma for a beer that looks like it will have a weak body.

Flavor is hops, pine, caramel, anise, some syrup, bitter chocolate and coffee. I am impressed with the flavor. There’s nothing weak about the body of this beer; looks can be deceiving my friends.

The aroma is coffee, the taste is creamy sweat coffee. Dark brown. Do you like sweet coffee? This is it. Roasty. Drinkable and refreshing on a hot day. Cocoa is distant,as is licorice. It’s hoppy-it’s a portery stouty brown ale, with low bitterness.

Not a huge fan of this one. Pours a dark brown with a decent off-white head. Some lacing. Aroma is dominated by the hops...too much for a Brown in my opinion. Flavor, again is overly hoppy and bitter, with some burnt malts coming through at the end. Palate was a bit watery. Overall I was fairly disappointed in this one. Reminded me more of an American Pale than a Brown.

Bottle in trade from BlackForestCO. Thanks dude. Pours dark brown/maroon with a beige lasting head. Smell is toasty, nutty mildly sweet with maybe a light smattering of coffe. Taste is fairly bitter for a brown and is nicely malty and nutty without being sweet or overly simple. Medium body with a fair amount of carbonation. Actually fairly hoppy in the finish. Nice beer.

66 cl bottle. Hopheads´ tasting 22. august. Brown reddish color, nice beige/tan head. Aroma is lots and lots of malt and hops. Flavor is sweet malty and hoppy, coffee and chocolate. Well - this is one of the reasons why I love Mikkeller!

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.