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Mikkeller Brewing San Diego in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating|
Score
7.70
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A Stout made with Cà Phê Chồn – one of the world’s rarest coffees, imported from Vietnam. Coffee beans are collected, cleaned and roasted after going through the digestive tract of the luwak, a type of civet with very particular tastes. Roasted malt links coffee, citrus and dark chocolate to form a potent brew leading to a hoppy, happy, bitter citrus finish.
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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can from Speciaalbierpakket. Aroma is roasted malt, caramel, dark chocolate, chocolate syrup, espresso, soft vanilla, molasses, and some liquorice. Flavour is quite sweet with some roasty bitterness in the finish. Body is full. Rather sweet and syrupy, doesn't hold a candle to regular Mikkeller Brunch Weasel. Very much a slow sipping sugar overdose, decent but not a great Imperial Stout.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Feb 2025
at 10:34
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Old 355mL can, undated, circa 2021 most likely. Drunk 2/2/24. Clear, dark. Small tan ring of persistent bubbles. Alcohol and oxidation with syrupy caramel and dark roasted coffee. Hint of vanilla. Flaked oat seems to maybe soften things a bit. Wow sugar. Just a mouthful of brown sugar, vanilla, honey, caramel and dark roast coffee. Some bitterness from alcohol on the finish (and coffee of course). Even at 11% and the coffee being in relatively good shape, this one still seems old and tired. That said, this must have been an onslaught of sugar, booze and coffee when young.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Feb 2024
at 00:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Draft. A- Chocolate sauce. A- Black color, black liquid, brown head. T- Tobacco, char, roasty, chocolate. P- Full body, thick texture, average carbonation, roasty finish. O- I really get no coffee here and not sure how the SD brewery recipe is different. Loads of roasted tobacco and a bit of lucious chocolate sauce.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Oct 2021
at 01:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Chris and Ruth Pre-GBBF 2017 tasting - London. Cheers! Pours oily black-brown with a creamy, khaki head. The nose holds burnt biscuits, chocolate. Medium to big sweet flavour with notes of hearty roasted malts, sugary chocolate, scorched earth. Full bodied, oily, with fine carbonation. Warming finish, some ashy roast, bittersweet chocolate, raisins, fudge. Good stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2021
at 21:18
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
16oz can from Tavour. Pours out a thick black, flat. Aroma features a blend of roast, coffee and chocolate. Taste moves the chocolate up front, with sweetness and roasty bitterness behind. Smooth. Thick. Nice!
Tried
from Can
on 26 Nov 2020
at 07:51
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can black colour with no head.Aroma is oily and roasted with flavor of coffee and soya nice full body and warming finish.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Apr 2020
at 11:30
8/10
EB from 2016
Tried
on 13 Jan 2020
at 16:16
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(tap) clear, bright, very dark brown colour with a small brown head; aroma of milk chocolate, roast, thick palate, intense, balanced flavour with a long, medium bitter sweet finish
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Dec 2019
at 01:05
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 25 Nov 2019
at 17:48
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
1 Pint can. Murky black, big creamy mocha coloured head. Dark chocolate, Black Forest Cake, toffee, cognac, espresso, black cherries, barrel notes, some booze. Malty sweetness, some bitterness. Full bodied, slick texture, soft carbonated, sweet warm finish. Great!
Tried
from Can
on 25 Oct 2019
at 20:43