Mikkeller Jackie Brown

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

Bottled - LCRBM2 - A muddy dark brown coloured beer with a little tan head. The aroma is nicely hoppy with caramel and nuts. Very much a US style brown ale aroma. The taste is lovely: good hops, nuts and caramel, lovely chocolate malts; some roastiness. A very very nice beerScore 4.1
Subsequent ratings scored 4.1, 4.1, 3.9 and 3.7. Average becomes 4.0

04-Aug-08 (500-ml bottle: Purchased 07-Apr-08 for $9.96 from liquidsolutions.biz) Mikkeller continues to shine, pushing the envelope with wonderfully flavorful brews, and Jackie Brown is no exception. The nose offers strong, roasty malts and coffee, but also a prominent outdoor theme of earth, twigs and leaves along with a rustic suggestion of farms, barns and pastures. The flavor is very roasty for a brown ale, lightly sweet, fairly nutty, with strong dark chocolate and coffee notes in the finish. Hops are dusty and lightly bitter, but the flavor of the hops has significant presence in the finish. Lingering bitterness in the aftertaste from hops and dark-roasted malts. Full-bodied on the palate, almost chewy, it’s much heavier than most brown ales, and the mouthfeel is smooth and velvety. Carbonation is light-medium. Despite the lightly sweet overtone, the beer is very dry and somewhat tannic and chalky on the palate, especially in the finish. Medium brown in color with good clarity. The small, light-tan head builds to no more than half an inch on the pour before settling to a partial film and wide ring. A really wonderful brown ale, without a doubt one of the best I’ve ever tasted.

Bottle (Sydney Summer Gathering 2007): Brown ales were my first love. Sadly, as I explored the mountains and watercourses of the fermented world my passion for them waned. I found it was an empty category, not because the style was flawed, but simply because no one was producing anything of quality. However, this has rekindled the fire.
Rusty brown with a solid off-white head, but unlike most other brown ales I have tried, this one has presence in the glass. In the nose things become more intriguing. Very slight roasty notes play under a lovely chocolate chorus. I was smitten here probably, but the real fire came from within. Bitter cocoa and toasty malts race accross the palate, kept in check by a pleasing bitterness from a combination of the chocolate and the malts, but also, as it moved from front to back-palate, an increasingly obvious piney hop character. Resiny flavours joined the fray very late, and despite a previous prejudice against such additions, I was in love. Oh please can we have more brewers paint such pictures.

My 650ml bottle was 2.5 years old at Rhinoi, one year past official expiry. Semi-turbid light chestnut prown with clear gold-brown highlights, medium creamy tan head.Aroma of demerera dark honey and slight wet hay. Great body and feel to this beer! Amazing hops presence, complex malts feature chocolate raisin honey fig toffee dry cocoa and fresh baked biscuit. Very pleasant bitterness seems to accrue and become more prominent on the finish. My thjis has aged well, would love to compare fresh.

Bottle (660ml) shared with HogTownHarry and biegaman -- courtesy of HogTownHarry. Pours a cloudy deep ruby-brown with an average size frothy off-white head. Aroma: Oh yeah, that smells great! Coffee, dark chocolate, roasted malt and lots of green resiny hops. Flavour’s just as good and oh so tasty: roasted malt, lots of coffee, chocolate, lots of hops and a long dry bitter finish. Medium bodied. This is simply awesome, it’s in my top 5 best Brown Ales ever for sure! Can Mikkelller do no wrong?

The most "burnt", hoppy and brown IPA i’ve ever had! Thumbs up (once more, i may add).

Found this in Beer Paradise (Holstebroe). Maybe the best brown I ever had. Very complex. Roasty aroma together with coffee, wood and hops. Roasted coffee taste among others. Great finish and pleasant aftertaste. i wish i could have tried more Mikkellers.

Tasted 7/14/08. 22oz bomber. Hazy with a brown hue. Finger width of beige head. Noticeably hoppy nose. Piney and citrus with cocoa and dark chocolate. Touch of dark berries. On the fuller side of medium bodied with a lingering hop bitterness. Dark chocolate and acidic malts. This is bitter upon bitter. Mild carbonation, but the hops still leave a tingle on the tongue. Hits and rolls over the palate. Chocolate and coffee malts and a big hop presence. This is very nice. A big hoppy brown!