BrewDog Mikkeller Devine Rebel

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

Serve in Snifter

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11.2 oz bottle, shared. Bottled 7/5/09. Dark, complex amber color, really nice and varied. Nice gradients in the color of the appearance. Almost completely hazy, lots of floating sediment. No head, but I love how this brew looks. Incredibly complex aroma, so delicious. The texture is unbelievable, 2.5 years must have really done wonders for this brew. Barely any carbonation at all. Great sweet taste. Aroma is hard to describe... complex, but not overpowering. Super smooth malty-heavy taste, nice super-smooth sweet hops taste. Alcohol barely discernible at all. So good. I wish I had more of this, five and a half oz is not nearly enough to figure this beer out. So smooth and easy to drink, can’t emphasize that enough. T loved it as well, she said it was a "15/10". I guess this is what a barleywine is supposed to taste like.

0, 33 l botle, shared with Balazs, thanx!
Poured deep amber-reddish coppery with a small creamy off white head. Liqueric, fruity aroma with fig, apricot, some plum. After the dried fruits comes the resiny-citrussy hop perfume with a fine malt-caramel background. Heavy-oily body with a huge malt base, fruity alcohol flavor with apricot and fig again. The lurky hop bits in the finish with a powerful herbal-resiny-citrussy character. Fantastic barleywine!!!

Strong, very strong. I split this sipping beer with three people as we all wanted a taste. After the first sip we were glad to share this one. You definitely note the whiskey taste in this ale. Small tan head with an alcohol whiskey smell.

I WAS HAMMERED AND A RE-RATE SHALL BE FORTHCOMING: Dark ruby brown with beige whisps of head. Rich caramel with dates on the nose. Rich but oh so light fruity and lightly hopped. My word that is the best drinkabilty against percentage mix ever. Deeeeeep. Perfect?

Poured hazy copper red, with a tan lacing head. Strong nose of sundried apricot, raisins, caramel and alcohol. This collaboration brew refused to blend; I detected a split personality of fruity sweetness battling grassy, hoppy, almost herbal bitterness, with no clear winner. Oily, heavy, dense body with fine, tongue-tingling carbonation. Unique, strong, characteristic.

(from a bottle @ The Old Toad Mikkeller Beer Dinner) Dark copper color with almost no head. Big and huge malt and whiskey aroma with a lot of vanilla and oak and alcohol notes. Flavor matches the aroma. Lots of alcohol, vanilla and whiskey flavors with a very smooth woody middle from the barrels and a warming and sweet port-like finish. Very smooth for over 12% and very tasty.

A Mes rate. Bottle thanks to Nick at realale.com
Stunning dark ruby amber colour with a pillowy beige head that settles slowly to a chunky film. A damn good looking beer. Preserve fruits, leather, tobacco and thick sweet malts on the nose. Utterly glorious flavour. When I first tried this I wasn’t too fussed. As is often the case, a few months in the bottle has really done this good. Thick chewy malt with a big raw candy sugar hit come first. Swiftly followed by hints of marzipan from the alcohol, lots of cake, berry fruits and a good stinging bitterness that partly comes from the hops and partly comes from the alcohol. Yes it’s a little on the hot side but it’s one of those beers that carries it well. Great belly glow confirms this is one that means business. Burnt caramel and perverted boozy finish that has formidable length. An enjoyable collaboration between two of my favourite brewers.

Cask at the Ginger Man, NYC. This beer was outrageous. Aroma of toffee, dark chocolate and fruits, as well as some light malt. Flavor was intense and huge. Dark fruits abounded - cherries, figs - and there were notes of mocha and expresso. Big body with low carbonation, this beer was almost like syrup. High alcohol is present but not aggressive, adding depth to the overall experience. Very sweet, lingering aftertaste. A wonderful beer.

Bottle and served in tulip glass: Coppery deep amber with a small ring of foam and little lace, some oily legs. The aroma has notes of peaty and sea salt whisky, some oak tannins, caramel and roast, some rye like vapours, a bit of lingering resiny hops, and pepper esters. The taste displays rich caramelized malts, snappy whisky character, some hop bitterness, and a slight ripened fruit tone. I like how the base beer is not overpowered by the barrel aging, complemented by the whisky characteristics. The alcohol while present act more to cleanse the palate than dominate it. The mouth feel is aggressive and sticky, soft carbonation and slightly metallic. Outstanding brew and shows the best aspect of barrel aging that works with the beer. YUMMY!

Best of the night at Pizzeria Paradiso in Dupont Circle. Shared with Brian and Jose. Dark reddish brown, cloudy. Tastes like a smoky and complex scotch ale. Burnt caramel edges and nice long finish. Odd plastic label Find this one.