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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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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
6223.8/5.03.79/5.0Special9%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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 awiseman01 (358), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/514/20
Sep 29, 2009  
Bottle from W&CP. Pours murky orange/brown with 2 finger foamy beige head. Nose is earthy malt and slight hop. Taste is very dry, bitter, earthy, slight caramel malt. Not nearly as much hop as I wanted considering it says 130 IBU, but it’s there. I little bit of sweetness from the candi sugar comes through. Overall not terrible, but way to dry/bitter/earthy for me.


 RAYBOY01 (1834), Chicago, Illinois, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/515/20
Sep 27, 2009  
Great looking hazy deep golden pour. White fluffy head...had to wait awhile to drink this after my clumsy. heavy-handed pour. Big PNW hop notes. Sweeter than I really like in my IIPA’s, but not offensively so. bread/biscuity crystal maltiness, very well balanced by an shit-ton of hops in the massive bitter finish. Very well brewed!


 curly (604), Nashville, Tennessee, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/514/20
Sep 25, 2009  
Murky orange brown color with a frothy off-white head. Aroma is pine, grapefruit. Taste is lemon, not overly bitter, more like Barley wine. Candied sugar really balances well along with the roast malt finish. Good stuff.


 Barrios (858), Nashville, Tennessee, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Sep 25, 2009  
800th! Pours a lacing head with a lasting ring of off-white lace and an amber-copper body. Aromas of malt sweetness, mellow resin and citrus hops. Toffee, old pineapples, little resin. Finish is bitter and sticky sweet.


 Butters (1652), Virginia, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Sep 25, 2009  
Bottle shared with the barrios, scottyp, curly. Pours a translucent mustard with decent layer of white head. Sweet and sugary upfront. It’s like they left out the aroma or flavoring hops, and amped up the bittering hops. Very green wood hop is only on the tail. The finish is like licking a hop pellet.


 ScottyP (314), Brentwood, Tennessee, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/514/20
Sep 25, 2009  
Pours a cloudy amber with off white head. Aroma of citrus, fruit, hops, booze, malts, yeast. Similar taste, hoppy throughout with malt backbone. Warm in my belly.


 nickd717 (1348), Palo Alto, California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Sep 23, 2009  
Bottle from K&L in Redwood City. Pours dark cloudy amber color with a huge lasting off white head and ridiculous retention. Aroma is citrusy and piney hops, yeast, and sweet malt. Great citrus hop and caramel malt flavor along with yeast and some apples and grapefruit. Pretty interesting and definitely different. Palate is medium-full and pretty sticky with hop resins lasting on the palate. Overall, very good.


 Strykzone (1478), Wood River, Illinois, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Sep 22, 2009  
A huge tan head jumped up during the pour and it took forever to dissipate. Its color is mildly light brown and is cloudy and well carbonated. Lacing is as thick and sticky as sprayed on insulation. Aroma is not big and offers yeast and pine. After my patience gave way I drank through the foam. Huge bitterness here! Tons of bitter hops along with sugar and yeast. Alcohol is noted. Big bitterness and big alcohol. Other flavors could have been bigger.



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