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.

[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!!

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.

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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.

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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!

(Bottle 50 cl) 11% version. Pours a dark amber with a reddish hue and a slight haze. Delicate, creamy, beige coloured head settling cappuchinoish on top. Very intense and lightly perfumy nose full of aroma hops. Full-bodied all right, but not really when you take the 11% ABV into consideration. Notes of caramel and an underlying sweetness. But the bitterness builds up on my palate to become quite massive and overwhelming. And for a malthead like me the last 10 cl were tough. Heavy yeast sediment at the bottom. But this really is a monster of a Barley Wine - American style - and a great beer by all standards. 180206