 Ungstrup (11136), Frederiksberg, Denmark
May 28, 2008 Another century celebrated with a "Mikkeller" beer, this time the collaboration with Three Floyds for rating number 10,500. A beutiful deep red beer with a medium tan head. The aroma is very sweet and malty with strong notes of caramel, but also with hints of alcohol and pine needles. The flavor is very sweet with strong notes of alcohol which tickles the lips, tongue, and palate, as well as strong notes of caramel and medium notes of pine needles and lemon, leading to a very bitter finish, where finally I detect some wheat, which joins the hops for the dry finish. The alcohol just keeps on tickling my palate.
omhper (10456), Stockholm, Sweden
Jul 9, 2008 Bottled at RBESG. Hazy amber, rocky head. Evident grapefruit aroma. Sweet with initial flavour of rye bread and wine gum. Medium sweet and full bodied with concetrated flavour of grapefruit, bread and bubble gum. Long bitterness. Powerful extremely flavourful, yet in control. Love it!
Papsoe (9999), Frederiksberg, Denmark
Mar 18, 2008 (Bottle 65 cl) Courtesy of Storm. Clear, warm, amber golden with an off-white head. The aroma is intense: overripe fruit, plums and alcohol - almost Calvados-like. Full-bodied and very typical US Barley Wine style with plenty of overripe fruit accents and a solid base of cramel malts. The finish is quite bitter but mainly extremely warming and alcoholic, and I get the feeling of sipping a very good and rounded Calvados. Excellent. 180308
Oakes (6853), Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Jun 12, 2008 Golden-amber colour. Big toasty hop nose with caramel, peach...complex...grapey and with some alcohol. Really toasty and woody on the palate, with a light fruitiness and a woody hop finish. Clean and flavourful, and yet another wheat wine that sits distinctive from the others.
yespr (6364), Copenhagen O, Denmark
May 15, 2008 RB#4444: 22 fl oz bottle. Pours deep amber/hazzlenut brown with a slight tan to orange head. Aroma mild fruity with faint notes of wheat - certainly towards a weizenbock-like aroma with dry woody and grapefruity hops notes. Full bodied mouthfeel and smooth - again much like a weizen bock. Faint fruity notes from the wheat but more over solid hoppy with a solid bitterness and dryness into the finish. Wellbrewed no doubt, just not amongst the most thrilling 3F nor Mikkeller
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