Mikkeller Black Hole

Mikkeller
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Imperial Stout
Copenhagen V, Denmark

Thanks to piginapen for trading this bottle to me. The beer pours black with a very small brown head. The aroma is coffee with some spice and also some trash components. The flavor is coffee, alcohol, spices, pepper, tobacco and chocolate. Complex, but not that great. Thick, slimy, oily mouthfeel and low carbonation.

Thank you to Cletus for sending this bottle my way, and thank you Governor Chet Culver for Signing Senate File 2088. The wife and I drank this to celebrate the fancy new Iowa beer laws. Pours a thick black with a deep reddish brown espresso swirl head but really this is almost flat. The aroma is lots of deep roasted malt, tons of espresso, some licorice, whiskey, some earthiness, and a bit alcohol presence, nicely sweet. The flavor is lots of burnt notes & espresso bitterness. There are some dark fruits namely plum complimented by dark chocolate and charred wood.

Tasted 3/10/10. 12.7oz bottle. Synthetic cork and cage. I do believe this has been in the basement since about 2007. Pours pitch with a webbed beige trace head. Aromas of molasses and chocolate cake. Dark dried fruits and dark chocolate. Sweet fudgy nose with hints of coffee and toffee. Great nose! Full bodied with a big palate. Great complexity and body. Good amount of dark thick chocolate and a big coffee flavor and acidity. Dry woody character. Good dose of warming alcohol burn. Syrup and fudge. Lotta dark esters and dried fruits. This is super tasty!

Plastic corck really hard to open, pours a deep black brown color with a very litle dark beige head, almost flat. Aroma of deep roasted caramelised malts, oaked dark fruits, coffee, yeast and spices. Flavors of espresso, black chocolate, some hints of caramels and honey, yeast and spices present. Very low cabonation, sweet and bitter, thick, somewhat creamy. Long lasting coffee bitter in mouth. Good complexity, to bad it has no head, but still an excelent and heavy stout.

Bottle at home, shared with a good friend. This is, some nice beer. Coffee, chocolate... No head, that’s a bit sad, but not the most important. Very dark almost black beer. Vanilla, fruit, some sweetness, chocolate, roasted taste. Dark fruit, caramel, a manly nice brewed beer, but my friend didn’t seems to like it as much as me... Seems a bit a love or hate beer :)

Oh my.......Pours a dark black with a few brown chocolate bubbles.Nose is Cocoa Puffs cereal.Taste is layers upon layers of espresso,chocolate,chocolate milk and again Cocoa Puffs cereal!The depth of flavor in this beer is unreal.I detect hops in the background and toasted malts throughout as well.This is one of those beers I’d love to try side by side with Expediton Stout,World Wide Stout and the other big time US stouts.A near perfection is what I’m sippin’ on here folks...

bottle - dark black beer with no foam on top. Aroma is buttery. Flavour is compkex. Alcohol is very well balanced with sweet maltiness. Some liquour and caramel. Coffee in the end. Light bitterness and low carbonation.

Pitch black colour, small brown head. Alcohol, roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, vanilla, soy, lovely! Milk chocolate, dark chocolate, sugar, alcohol, roasted malts, soy, hops and coffee, rich as can be! Smooooth, just smooth and oily thick. This is just great! Best I’ve had from my favourite brewer so far and that says a lot!