Mikkeller Single Hop Simcoe IPA

Mikkeller
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Copenhagen V, Denmark

Time to catch up before BCTC. Bottle at PilsnerPeter’s Spring Throwdown. Thank to everyone who brought great beer and ribs and pickles and everything! Golden orange with head and lace. Orange jelly beans sweet aroma. Sweet citrusy orange with clean dry bitter finish. Effervescent carbo. Very good.

Aroma:pine hops,apricot.... Apperance:hazy orange,good foam head.. Flavor:pine and apricot,dry....

Exceedingly dry yet nicely herbal, green and lemony. Near-clear yellow, fuzzy small white head. Seductive aromas seem to involve peach, candy lemons, sweet grassy aromas, ganja. Taste is a big bite of grapefruit rind, nothing held back Bitterness builds exponentially, making the palate puckeringly tight. Some melony-apricot fruit hiding in there? Ultimately a difficult beer, but OH the aroma. Mikkel knows his shit.

From jrob21 via trade. Poured a slightly hazy golden color with a thick, white to off-white head that produced terrific lacing. The aroma was bitter pine with slight hints at softer floral notes. The flavor is light spice and flowers quickly steamrolled by pine hops. Nice mouthfeel. Easy to drink. Of the three of these Mikkeller beers I’ve had, the others being Warrior and Cascade I actually found this one to be the most boring.

Looks and pours great; big fat creamy head with excellent staying power. Murky apricot orange in colour. Nose is very very lifted with bright and clean passionruit and grapefruit. Impressive. Hops really take over in the mouth although the passionfruit certainly lurks in the background. Sharper hops and bitternes come into play, the former a little green and raw to my tastes. Almost like sour grapefruit. Slight biscuity note to finish. Would be tough to drink a lot of this in one sitting.

11.2 oz bottle via Hagen. Pours a very hazy orange with a very large off-white head. Nose is all about the piney reasiny Simcoe hops. I am sooo looking forward to this as Simcoe hops are my #1 fav (along with Centennial). Mmmm this is hop hop hopalicious. Starts bittersweet, ends dry and bitter and in between is lots of mouthpuckering goodness..flavors of pine, grapefruit, orange-rind, pine, more pine, some pineapple, some more grapefruit and then pine which last long into the glorious aftertaste. 2 minutes later i can still taste it. Yum fracking yum. Body is medium/full, carbonation is medium. THis is one of the few beers i can say was worth buying at $6 for an 11.2 oz bottle!

Bottle: Poured a cloudy dirty brown color ale with a rather large foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of bitter and somewhat citrus hops with a very perceptible malt base. Taste is dominated by floral piney notes with some astringent notes and a dry caramel malt base underneath it all. I can understand why people sometime qualify this as the cat pee hops. Body is quite full with limited filtration and great carbonation. Very well done though the Nugget is still my favorite.

Olive bottle, 330 ml, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savoured on July 23 2009; eye: caramel with an orange hue, lightly hazy, no effervescence, beige head that turns into an island of melting ice cream, nice lacing; nose: resinous hops, grapefruit, caramel malt, light orange, pine; mouth: resinous hops, astringency, grapefruit, light orange, pine, layer of caramel malt, dry finale in resinous hops with astringency, medium-full body, rather carbonated and bitter, lightly sweet, slightly harsh; overall: quite likable FRANÇAIS Bouteille olive, 330 ml, via Importations Privées Bièropholie (merci Hughes!), savourée le 23 juillet 2009; œil : caramel avec une teinte orangée, légèrement voilée, pas d’effervescence, mousse beige qui se transforme en un îlot de crème glacée fondante, bonne dentelle; nez : houblon résineux, pamplemousse, malt caramel, léger orange, pin; bouche : houblon résineux, astringence, pamplemousse, léger orange, pin, filet de malt caramel, finale sèche en houblon résineux avec astringence, corps moyen-corsé, plutôt carbonatée et amère, légèrement sucrée, texture légèrement rugueuse; en résumé : bien aimé