Mikkeller Jackie Brown

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

This beer rules! It’s a roasty, chocolaty brown ale with hints of coffee and licorice. Being a Mikkeller brew the malts are inevitably complimented by a great amount of hop bitterness, aroma and flavour

Pours copper with ruby tints. Huge head showing great persistence and lacing. Hops dominates aroma, there’s some grapefruit, pine, quite spicy. Toasty/bready malt hiding underneath. I would have liked more nutty/toasty malt. Same with the flavours: green citrus hops dominates over the sweetness of the toasty and crystal malts. Solid bitter finish (IPA strength), seems to be from a mix of hops and dark grains. Body is too watery for my liking.

Bottle @ GBBF 2009. A dark brown colored beer, with a thick foamy beige head. The aroma of coffee malts with hops and some fruits. The taste of coffee with fruits. It’s dry and bitter. Hints of vanilla. The aftertaste is bitter coffee, with some fruits.

Pours reddish brown with a wispy mostly maintained tan head. Notes of English hops, pine, caramel, toffee, and earthy malt. Full bodied, lightly sticky with soft carbonation. A very nice brown ale, I was quite impressed.

Bottle. Pours with a huge tan head over a brown body. Aroma of chocolate, hops and vanilla. Taste is bitter coffee, vanilla and chocolate. Some lingering cocoa powder. Light carbonation smoothish mouthfeel.

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.