Mikkeller Single Hop Simcoe IPA

Pours orange. Nose is sweet fruity hops, citrus, grapefruit and sweet malt. Flavor is citrus, ripe grapefruit, sweet fruits, moderate bitterness and good malt profiles.

12 oz. -> shaker. Pours a wonderful rosie-orange, with a lt. khaki head. I should mention the particulate matter solidly suspended within, which appears to be yeast. Great, splotchy lacing. Smells of peaches, freshly cut wood, and something acidic. Honestly, it’s almost as if it smells like bile tastes, know what I mean? Tastes sharply bitter, similar to a very sour grapefruit, with a grassy maltiness in the middle, quickly overtaken again by the tart finish.

Courtesy of Blazer06. Pours copper with gold edges and white head. The aroma is dusty citrus tangelo and spicy hops along with mild sugary malts. The taste is much the same with a mix of spicy hops and tangelo like sweet to bitter citrus hops. Into the finish a mild pulse of sweet malts and grains seem to gain traction for a few moments.

aroma is of light peach hidden beneath meaty almost salty pine. some acidic pineapple late as well. body is cotton candy head with super cloudy (and even a bit chunky) orange. flavor is bitter and even a touch sour/tart with big pine and peach muddled together in a heap.

Bottle. Pours a downright cloudy, dusky, dark orange-amber color. A massive, frothy head of beige foam lasts for ages, settling ever so slowly to a thick, clumpy, patchy layer. Sticky, hard-drying, jagged rings and flares of lacing coat nearly the entire glass. The aroma shows a malt base of toasted bread and singed toffee, moderately sweet overall, with notes of white grapefruit, pineapple, and resinous pine forming a unique, bitter hop profile. Flavors are similar, though less defined, with the toffee malt seeming a bit oxidized, and the muddled citrus-pine hops giving off a bit of astringency. Medium-full bodied, dry, and yeasty, the palate is a little astringent for my liking, and it drinks heavier than it should. Solid brew, but nowhere near what Mikkeller is capable of.

Bottle thanks to mes had at mes’s gaff. Alround rating: Piney citrusy lychee tropical fruit of the hops, the body holds up excellently and you could go mad on this stuff. Best IPA for a while.

Pours with a slightly cloudy orange body with floaties, topped by a thick head with lots of lacing left on the glass. It’s slightly sweet, piney and resinous. Medium bodied, smooth and a touch warming.

bottle thanks to pops/ first. label, simple and so nice looking. i really like the look of this series. know it has nothing to do with taste, but it is really nice. nose is damp wood, grass, cooked green vegetables, some spice. taste is the same, biting hop finish with notes of oregano and cooked vegetables. really interesting.