It's Alive!
Mikkeller in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark 🇩🇰
Brewed at/by: De ProefbrouwerijBelgian Style - Strong Ale Regular
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Score
7.20
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It’s Alive! is Mikkellers answer and tribute to the trappist beer Orval. It’s Alive is an easy-to-drink beer, with a lot of hops. The color is amber, the foam is high, white and dense. The potent Brettanomyces culture makes It’s Alive continue to develop in the bottle.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Draught from Van Daag. Pours orangey red, some fruits and floral, hops to finish. Pretty good.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 00:58
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle. Cloudy, gold in Color. Aroma is a tad on the funky side. Taste is a tad funky and a tad sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 05:55
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
NIce fruity aroma, tropical fruit, hops, and some yeasty esters. Light soft malts, and some soft almost low carb. This has a distinct resemblance of orval, but this beer is thick. The mouthfeel is knowhere near as light and bubbly as orval, this seemed muddled. A good belgian not a great one.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:25
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
750ml shared with Ryan and Kulminator's regulars. Appearance: clear copper with a white head. Aroma: caramel, dark fruits, sweet. Taste: medium body, quite bitter, caramel. Overall: a bit harsh, passed its prime.
Tried
on 12 May 2023
at 15:37
3/10
It's dead. Mostly clear amber body no head. Bready caramel cardboard. Bready cardboard flavor. Medium body no carbonation. 4/2/2/1/5 1.4
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Feb 2023
at 16:51
Tried
on 03 Nov 2022
at 08:12
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Winne, czerwone owoce, kolendra, śmietankowa nuta. Barwa rubinowa, mętne, trwała piana redukuje się do niskiej, lacing obecny. Goryczka niska, ziołowa, pestkowa. Delikatnie kwaskowe, pełne, owocowe, przyprawowe. Bardzo ciekawe i dobre.
Tried
on 10 Jun 2022
at 21:35
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours light hazy brown orange with a medium white head. Aromas of orange, light citrus, peach, lots of floral notes, some yeast. Taste is pretty hoppy and spicy up front, light citrus, peach, orange, yeast, very dry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 17:19
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Craft at the end of April. Orange amber colour. Aroma is fruity sweet, bit of citrus, some berries and yeasty. Taste is yeasty, bit of bubblegum, still fruity, cherry maybe, touch of spice. Seems like I really quite liked this! Rerate, Aug 2015 at Mikkeller Tokyo. Nice aroma, bit soapy, lemony hops, xx bitter like. Taste is very different, caramel, light Belgian weirdness, good stuff. Very easy drinking. I like this a lot. Same scores!! --- Beer merged from original tick of It's Alive! on 09 Sep 2019 at 16:06 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8. Original review text: Tap at Craft at the end of April. Orange amber colour. Aroma is fruity sweet, bit of citrus, some berries and yeasty. Taste is yeasty, bit of bubblegum, still fruity, cherry maybe, touch of spice. Seems like I really quite liked this! Rerate, Aug 2015 at Mikkeller Tokyo. Nice aroma, bit soapy, lemony hops, xx bitter like. Taste is very different, caramel, light Belgian weirdness, good stuff. Very easy drinking. I like this a lot. Same scores!!
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:54
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap @ EBF. Vinegar aroma with apple and raspberry notes. Very sour, dusty and vinegar-like, also very oaky flavor. I’m slightly disappointed, though the complexity is there. Some honey in the aftertaste.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07