CloakedDagger (37227) reviewed Beer Geek Breakfast from Mikkeller 19 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
(Bottle 50 cl) Pours completely black and opaque with a thick, creamy and very goodloking light brown head. Burned aroma with hints of coffee. Very soft and smooth mouthfeel. The body is - surprisingly - not very full, actually the beer is scaringly easy to drink. Very distinct accents of burned malts and a somewhat burned edge. Lightly burned bitterness. I believe the brewers could easily turn up the coffee presence. 170306
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Beer Geek Breakfast from Mikkeller 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Black opaque beer with good, creamy dark beige-brown head. First impression is stale coffee, but followed immediately by warm, rich malts. Vaguely sweetish and cigarette ashes. Extremely roasted taste with mounting background bitterness. Smokey, tobacco, coffee. Gets burnt-emptier, like a dry stout, but never becoming thin. Every new sip has a short glimpse of these warming malts, both nasal and retronasal. Very slick, medium body but not watery texture. My first impression was the morning coffee cup of a chain smoker - but after a few sips the welcoming warmth stays. I just would rather not have this for breakfast, if you know what I mean...
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Monky Brew from Mikkeller 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Sparkling orange-gold colour; good & fluffy yellowish head. Caramel/malts + citrus and dry spices. Nice, but slightly - archetypical. Licorice, orange brandy; rather sweet with a marked alcohol presence, both in taste and MF. Thick, oily and burning MF. Well. Mikkel, keep to your Scandinavian-American crossfertilisation. Belgian yeasts are too wild...
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Single Hop Amarillo IPA from Mikkeller 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Huge yellow head, strangely regular and collapsing over dark amber beer with a slight haze. Citric-dry hops, very overwhelming, appetising. Bitter chocolate and dry cacao powder coming up. Hopbails filled with Belgian chocolate truffels? Bitter chocolate and dry hopstaste -wow. There’s a streak of bacon rind there somewhere, but the balance underneath is awesome; malts, hops and then the ?yeast? flavours. Rich, velvety to oily MF - just a bit disturbed as in the long the bitterness gets it a bit metallic. Another nice try. I hope it’s allowed to be rated by non-Danish ;^}? Thanks to the bros. Keep them coming, please.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Monky Brew from Mikkeller 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
[With this beer I celebraty my 5800th rating] I need a Monk’y brew glass - but since that doesn’t exist yet, I’m drinking it out of a Chimay glass. The color is slightly hazy copper with a fine slightly lazing off-white head. For the style I expected it to be just a bit darker - but it is still a beutiful beer. The aroma is quite strong, as soon as You pour it banana hits You even from afar, when You get closer other fruits also shows their presence - especially oranges, peaches, and pineapple, reminds me of a great fruit salat. Very faint hints of alcohol can also be detected in the aroma. The flavor is quite powerful with strong notes of fruit, alcohol, yeast, flowers, wood, and sirup. The fruit being a nice mixture of ripe and the very sweet over ripe notes, from oranges, banana, pineapple, and more. The yeastyness is very complex in a way I can’t describe, but fermenting with both Westvleteren and De Dolle yeast, must make it complex and wonderful. The mouthfeel is quite bubbly from the carbonation - but it is a very soft bubbly sensation, that tinckles the tongue in a very nice way, and the alcohol is lying in the background all the time in a very subtle way giving the beer power without making it too alcoholic - very nice. It reminds me somewhat of a great desert wine, with just a bit less alcohol bite than that. Another great beer from Mikkeller!!
HenrikSoegaard (21963) reviewed Single Hop Amarillo IPA from Mikkeller 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Fantastic beer. Mostly lasting excellent head. Dark amber colour, but the aroma is just increadible. I just love liquid hopps. Long finish and very good palate.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Single Hop Simcoe IPA from Mikkeller 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle, brought to bavaria by sk8viking
Pine, orangepeel and grass nose, light chocolaty notes as well.Brown with a red hue, low lacing tanned head. Fruity apricot baseflavor with some flowery play, pine, oranges and grass. Full creamy mouthfeel. Relatively little bitterness in the back of the mouth. These single-hop IPAs are very educational - and higly enjoyable.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Beer Geek Breakfast from Mikkeller 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle
Wonderfull coffe and chocolate aroma, a hint grapefruit sourness. Espresso colouring with a fine brown golden head. Very elegant coffee flavoring, light herbal edges peek through, never too bitter. Medium body, not too extreme on the palate. Nice roasted coffee aftertaste. Marvellous elegant brew. Thanks a lot to sk8viking for bringing it to Munich.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Rudolf Med Den Røde Tud from Mikkeller 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
[Another century is turned with a Mikkeller beer - this time 5700]
An opaque brown beer with a reddish shine when held against the light, underneath a thick brown crown of head. The aroma is sweet and very spicy, I pick up cardamom, anise, and cloves, besides notes of oranges. The flavor is sweet and extremely spicy - a bit too much for me - the spice combination makes the mouthfeel extremely dry - makes my tongue like sand paper. The spices picked up are again cloves, cardamom, and anise, but also cinnamon. When the spices fades a bit a citrusy notes comes thru, mostly like lime - but very soon after the extremely dry end sets in with the spices still lingering around.
Drinking it by itself I find a bit too much, but I think it would suit sweet christmas cakes very well.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Single Hop Amarillo IPA from Mikkeller 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle
Hazy orang brown, nice tanned lacing head. Incredibly rich hop aroma: citrus, peaches, roses - amazing that this all is from the same plant. Light roasted bready malt can barely be tasted before a truckload of hops hits the tongue. Citric and peach notes prevail, a light metallic note on the puckering grassy bitter exit. Grassy light metallic aftertaste. Lovely, and not just because I am starved for extremely hopped beers down here. Thank you so much for hauling the bottle down here Rene!