Struise Mikkeller (Elliot Brew) 3.79 628

Struise Mikkeller (Elliot Brew)

(RETIRED)

	Percentile
	97
	overall

Formerly brewed at De Struise Brouwers
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Oostvleteren, Belgium

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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Ratings	Average	Score	Seasonal	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
628	3.8/5.0	3.79/5.0	Special	9%	84.2	Snifter, Tulip

Commercial Description:
RateBeer Special Release:
Behold the second of RateBeer.com’s Worldwide Masters Series! This request edition ale is the crafted alchemy of a party of some of Europe’s finest brewers, Mikkel Bjergsø and Kristian Keller of Mikkeller (Copenhagen, Denmark) and Urbain Coutteau, Carlo Grootaert, Phil Driessens, and Peter Braem of De Struise Brouwers (Woesten-Vleteren, Belgium).
Both breweries have attracted considerable international attention for their artful interpretations of traditional ale styles enlived by a rich sense of invention. And both are also very highly esteemed by the RateBeer.com international community of beer tasters. We hope you enjoy this unique little treasure.
Struise Mikkeller -- the product of master brewing and friendship. Celebrate this sense of camaraderie by sharing this bottle with your good friends!
- Joe Tucker, RateBeer.com

Struise-Mikkeller is as we said in the past "Best of two worlds". We delivered an IPA with 130 IBU, but a bitterness hidden the Struise way, counter balanced by maltyness, alcohol and rest sugars. People who do not like Ipa’s will actually be amazed, the general hop bomb addict will not understand, so yes this is a controverse brew... enjoy anyway!

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Petrucci914 (585), Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

3.5	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.5	8/10	4/5	7/10	3/5	13/20

Oct 17, 2008

Pours a hazy amber color with a medium white head and some streams of sticky lacing. Aroma is citrus, mango, some pine, and some grapefruit. Taste is a bit flat overall - some fruit, orange zest, and pine. Cool stuff, but the Americans know what they’re doing when it comes to this style.

Juelze (906), Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

3.5	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.5	7/10	3/5	6/10	4/5	15/20

Oct 17, 2008

Pours a very hazy rich amber color with thin off-white head. Aroma is intense mango, citrus, and floral hops. Taste is intense fruit and pungent citrus hops with a bit of tartness. Alcohol is well hidden and carbonation is mild. This isn’t bad for a Euro-IPA, but I’ll let my jingoism show thru in saying that euro-IIPA’s can’t touch an American IIPA.

dj (422), Gloucestershire, England

4.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4.1	8/10	3/5	8/10	4/5	18/20

Oct 17, 2008

Bottle, 330ml. A hazy golden colour with a large head. Aroma of soft, fresh citrus fruits and yeast. A very malty flavour with honey and caramel, Belgian yeast, hoppy notes and some more citrus, some alcohol and bitterness evident in the finish. A delicious, complex, exciting, brew.

andersand (365), Malmö, Sweden

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	7/10	4/5	8/10	4/5	15/20

Oct 13, 2008 Updated: Apr 11, 2009

Nice amber colour with a huge off-white head. Hoppy, caramelly, typical double IPA aroma with some Mikkellers stamp on it. The taste is a very successfull blend of Belgium and America, fruity, hoppy, juicy, caramelly with some spices. Extremely drinkable and pleasant. Something I try to drink often.

thickfreakness (130), AUSTIN, Texas, USA

3.5	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.5	7/10	4/5	7/10	3/5	14/20

Oct 12, 2008

Many thanks to Jon (WeeHeavySD) for this awesome extra. Decanted into a snifter. It is a dark amber color with a big, fluffy white head that takes a while to fade. Aroma is earthy, light citrus, belgian yeastiness and alcohol. Taste is belgian yeastiness, citrus rind, earthiness and some alcohol kick. I really like the citrus rind aspect in this. Medium body with decent carbonation.

weaselkenievil (738), Cheshire, England

4.5	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4.5	9/10	3/5	9/10	5/5	19/20

Oct 11, 2008 Updated: Sep 9, 2009

Bottle courtesy of Phil L and beermerchants.com was very pleased when I saw a Mikkeller beer in my lottery package. Good work mate! Basically Struise kick arse, MIkkeller kick arse. So when they get together it’s like Rooney and Ronaldo. I’ve loved every beer I’ve had off either of them. This was fantastic. Got the unmistakeable Struise stamp on it but it’s like a Mikkeller remix. Lovely! Tangerine, caramel, Belgian yeast, a tasty lick of alcohol. Complicated and posh and oh so tasty. In the commercial description it mentions controversy, beer geeks offended by it mentioning IPA? Grow up, a great tasting beer in my opinion. Fair play if you don’t like it but how right to my taste. Belter. You’re a good man Phil L. Re-rate - it’s even more me than I first thought! I love this stuff.

Hophead22 (1105), Redlands, by way of Wisconsin,, California, USA

3.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.9	7/10	4/5	7/10	4/5	17/20

Oct 11, 2008

11.2oz bottle, via trade with Swolf3, thanks Steven. Nice hazy orange pour, white head. Hoppy, yeasty aroma. Smooth hop bitterness, very drinkable. Can hardly taste the alcohol, very nice.

southamptonsam (81), New York, USA

3.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.7	7/10	4/5	7/10	4/5	15/20

Oct 5, 2008

It is an interesting mix of a Belgian head with an American/Norwegian body. Pleasant enough but the lack of clear identity was a negative for me.

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