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Struise Mikkeller (Elliot Brew) 3.79 640

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

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6403.8/5.03.79/5.0Special9%84.2Snifter, Tulip
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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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 moejuck (1172), Ohio, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/104/511/20
Jun 16, 2008  
Orange pour with plenty of head. The aroma is earthy, grassy, and a hint of caramel--though very faint. The taste is strange to me--bitter, but not a pine or citrus bitterness--very, very earthy and biting. Some spice to this brew as well. Not that enjoyable to me for this style.


 restless7 (104), Lenexa, Kansas, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/105/515/20
Jun 16, 2008  
BOTTLE: 50F. hazy pour with perfect thick white head and sediment in brew. Aroma is rather weak with hops characteristics and a hint of caramel and sugar. Flavor is a nice strong, biting hop combined with a long lingering sugary/dry finish. The back of the tongue keeps that flavor long after swallowing.


 Papsoe (15180), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Jun 16, 2008  
(Bottle 33 cl) Clear warm amber golden with a nice, dense and frothy off-white head. A somewhat raw aroma hoppiness with a whiff of caramel. Solid malt based body with hints of yeast and spices an a somewhat brutal bitter finish without any greater refinement. 030608


 AmEricanbrew (2005), Almost, Texas, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/515/20
Jun 16, 2008  
Amber color with a frothy lingering head. Nice cannabis smoke with sweet yeasty tripel aromas. Medium body with a frothy mouthfeel. Same ganga smoke weed flavors at first, then some yeasty and earthy sweet candi sugar flavors in the middle. Has a nice lingering weedy finish. Sweetens up quite a bit as it warms.


 Ibrew2or3 (2848), Safety Harbor, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Jun 15, 2008  
Courtesy of OSLO, thanks buddy. Pours hazy deep gold to copper with off white head. Mild complex aramo of spicy hops, sweet berry and cherries mixing with sweet orange juice. Nice interpretation of this US west coast style beer. The taste starts tart with grapefruit attacking at once. It gets a little pine like and even grassy for a moment or two before mild sweet malts enter but don’t interfere with the hoppy onslaught. Seems a bit thin for the style. Nice tasting brew bringing up similarities to orange juice along with tartness in the finish.


 jcwattsrugger (5582), Florida and, New Jersey, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/513/20
Jun 14, 2008  
bottle @Noogfest4.0-pours an off white head and hazy yellow color. Aroma is saison yeast, lemon. Taste is saison yeast, lemon-tart, barnyard, earthy hops. OK carbonation.


 JPDIPSO (4944), Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/104/514/20
Jun 14, 2008  
Hazed amber color with a tall light ecru colored head. Candi and light spice aromas. Some hints of pine and mango. Citrus, pale malt and light alcohol in the flavors. Some over-ripe citrus in the middle. LIght pepper in the finish and linger.


 JK (2967), Richfield, Minnesota, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/516/20
Jun 13, 2008  
Cloudy brown. Loads of hops in the aroma. Flavor is similar to many high end ipas with sweet caramel malt and hops, but interestingly here, it is almost like sweet hops and bitter at the same time. Thick, sticky palate. Very good.



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