BrewDog / Mikkeller Devine Rebel 2010

Formerly brewed at BrewDog
Style: Barley Wine
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in Snifter

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Very very special beer! everythings do you want to feel you got in this beer! definitly rare special expirience!!!

Darkguardian brought this gem over, and man it was great. Garnet colored. The aroma had veins of malt, whisky and smoke. The taste was outstanding, especially as it warmed up. The flavors were malt, oak, mild whiskey, light smoke, with a hint of chocolate, burnt caramel, and dark fruits...

30/11/12 - 33cl bottle from Biernavigatie (webshop, NL) @ home - bottled: 11/II/15 - I kid you not, it said bottled 2015 (2012-1316) Thanks to Erwin for sharing the bottle!

Little cloudy dark amber to red beer, small aery irregular head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: sweet, honey, caramel, vanilla, malty, some chocolate. MF: quite some carbon, full body. Taste: caramel, some what sour, red wine vinegar, vanilla, hint of whisky, alcohol noticeable, bit sugary, bitter, more vanilla, chocolate. Aftertaste: sour touch, caramel, red fruits, alcohol, sugary, dark chocolate. Wow, an amazing beer!

Bottle from beerplanet web shop. hazy brown color with small beige head. Aroma of toffee, cookies, dried tropical fruit, whiskey. Taste, milk chocolate, dried tropical fruit, vanilla, caramel, wood, whiskey, bitter hops. Long alcoholic bitter finish. Nice complex beer.

Bottle pours clear copper with off white head. The aroma is full and bold with rich notes of pine hops mixing with some grapefruit citrus hops as well as some malty sweetness and spicy hops at the end of the draw. Yes, this is going to be goooood. The taste is thick yumminess with rich pine hops that roll from flavor hops right into firm bitterness, grapefruit hop bitterness and much lesser amounts of floral hops showing up here and there. This is all yummy goodness!

330ml bottle. Pours a hazy dark brown with no head. Aroma is oak, vanilla and alcohol. taste is wood, vanilla, alcohol, nice, sweet alcohol burn on the finish.

Dark red color with a medium head. Strong fruity aroma (mostly apple and cherry) with light caramel and vanilla notes. Very strong malt and caramel flavor. Light oak. Some sherry character after warming. Thick body with medium carbonation.

UPDATED: NOV 14, 2010 Bottle. Creamy lightbrown good mostly deminishing head. Red-amber wonderfull colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Moderate bitter fantastic powerfull flavor. Fantastic long heavy bitter finish. Prune/rasin/chocolate and a lot mo´re. Creamy palate. World class.

Bottle from the BrewDog website. A dark red beer with extremely rich red fruity whisky like flavours and an extremely powerfully alcoholic dry malty hazelnut and vanilla finish.

Similar pour with a very pretty, translucent, dark ruby color with an average, yellowish-beige, pillowy head which is diminishes to a thin froth and leaves some tight lace rings behind. Nose is nicer than the last year’s version; fruit cake, red currant, fig, pound cake, lots of sweet caramel and molasses, vanilla, and similar woodsy notes but a bit more smoky from the Scotch. Flavor is actually nicer than I would have thought with the scotch notes remaining in the background allowing the complexity of the beer emerge; still fruity with fruit cake notes, red currant, almost cherry, dried apricot, molasses and sweet caramels still prominent, vanilla, then the peaty notes and dry wood come in with hop flavors notes as well (leafy, spicy, and floral). As the flavors begin to finish, a dark chocolate note emerges and stick on the tongue. Palate is a bit more carbonated than last year’s... Very full, lightly syrupy, warming, velvety, and lively. Finishes very long, the dark chocolate taking forever, fruit of currant and dried apricots, and pepper diminishing but leafy hops left. The bitterness of the beer is felt by the warmth, pepper notes, hops, and the dark chocolate which really balanced the intense, rich maltiness from the base beer. I am amazed how the Scotch barrels added more complexity to the beer as opposed to overpowering and adding too much "Scotch" characteristics, which I do not tend to enjoy. The thing that amazed me most was the dark chocolate notes moving into the finish; something that I did not get last year and something that may have come from the Scotch barrels?? Again, Mikkeller does something amazing and with the help of another brewery which I am growing to love as well (so long as the Scotch notes are kept in check).