Mikkeller Jackie Brown

Pours a dark ruby tinted brown with a big off white head. Aroma is dominated by hops. Flavor is big and hoppy with light roast malt, hints of coffee and nuts with a dry finish.

Hoppy bouquet - medium body, soft carbonation, bitter. Pours nicely deep brown. Bitter finish. Enjoyed it.

BB 2-9-11. Pours a nearly opaque, rusty brown color with a massive, khaki, creamy, fluffy, float-like head which lasts for a long while but does finally rescinds allowing me to take a sniff while showing some lace rings. The nose is complex and fairly hoppy, especially for a brown ale, much like a brown IPA or pale; notes of centennial and simcoe hops with a rustic tone, some light floral, light orange peel, dark bread crust, roasted pecans, some malted notes, and light notes of kona coffee and chocolate; a lot going on in the nose but everything works well together. The flavor is nice but not matching the nose, dry, hoppy flavor with some dry malt notes as well. Noting a more-than-moderate, herbal hop bitterness and light coffee bitterness throughout with other notes of light dry grass, malted cocoa, light grapefruit peel, pecans, and similar bread crust notes. Moving into the finish I get just hints of anise and dark chocolate. Palate is a little watery, silky, less-than-medium, and soft to lively, oh yeah, and dry; silky and dry in the same palate?? The finish is dry, moderately bitter still with some lighter sweet notes of the dark chocolate and light anise, light coffee bitterness, some lingering herbal/floral hop bitterness, and dark bread crusts still continuing to sit on the tongue. I do not know where to begin with this one; an excellent, intriguing nose with some dissimilar flavors that seem to fit perfectly together but the flavor carries so many dry notes which overwhelm the nice complexities of the beer. If I had to change something with the beer, I would say maybe changing the nugget to something less bitter thus allowing more sweet malt notes to emerge and less dry, bitter notes. Either way, a great brown ale with an intoxicating nose.

330ml bottle. Pours with tasty looking brown head. Aroma not as strong for me as perhaps some of the other reviews, not sure why? Inital taste is nothing too special but taste grows as time passes - Hints of coffee, chocalate, citrus and almost nutty in a way (Hazlenut?) Nice carbonation, taste lingers for a while. Good bang for your buck! Not my favourite beer ever but definately something different and worth a try.

Thanks to Boutip for sending this kick ass beer over during the -55C winters we suffer through here.
The smell is absolutely awesome. Never have I been impressed with a brown ale until now. Find me a better brown than this. Colossal light brown crown with very good retention and lots of layered lacing fossilizing on my glass. Great aromas of ghaggghhhhhllll (yes, this is the sound I made upon first smelling it - it’s a good sound, I swear), very weak coffee blended with the dark citrus hops really make this beer exceptionable, dirty, dusty chocolate, almost has an american barley wine smell, fake blueberry, there is also something here that, if it had a hell of a lot more power would be pretty stinky - either way, it’s making my mouth water. Nice flavours of roasted malts, caramel, weak but bitter coffee, bakers chocolate, unsweetened grapefruit hops dominate the hop portion with slight apricot, weak spruce and a medicinal quality finishing off that feature. Some earthy nuances, more dark fruit when warmer. Finishes less than impressive - the bitterness almost nullifies the goodness. Medium to medium full bodied, Lengthy drying bitterness. Well, this sure started off well but it just cannot finish. Disappointing finish for sure. Still, This is really good and probably the best brown I’ve ever had.

Pours brown with a nice tan head. Aroma is citrusy spicy hops and roasted malts. Flavor is big citrusy hoppy with a little bit of spicy hop and brown sugar. Very good.

Very good retention on this beer alround,slight misty red/brown pour.Aroma hoppy fruit citrus maltiness.Flavour grapefruit citric bitter,cvaramel toffee,very bright ale,crisp fizz on tongue,barley richness flowing out,honey,notes of brown sugar,chocolate,finish rich flavours nice bitter on palate both lasting.

22oz bottle, pours a nice reddish brown. Nose was roasted malt, slight coffee and chocolate. The flavor amped up the chocolate and coffee with some hop in there. Nice smooth finish.