BrewDog Mikkeller Devine Rebel

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

Serve in Snifter

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(12oz bottle) Pours a lightly hazy amber body with a small off-white head. Aroma of grass, scotch, caramel, and herbs. Flavor of citrus, caramel, maple syrup, herbs, and oak.

17th July 2009
Cloudy red - brown beer. Sweet rich malt provides a heady mix of Port wine and Cherry Brandy! Then sweetish toffee - caramel. Touch of peach and other yellow fruits. Finishes with sweetish hops and a little aniseed alcohol. Nice mix of flavours!

bottle from the Greg Yoder collection. Pours an opaque mahogoney color with sweet candy sugar in the nose first sip is huge sweet,malty flavors with a little oak, vanilla, cotton candy, corn sugar and figs. finish is sweet with caramelly goodnes. nice stuff.

Bottle. Batch 406 bottled on 2/15/11. Label says 2010 and 13.8% ABV. Maple pour with an extremely short lived beige head. No lacing. Dark brown sugar aroma. Full flavor but unusual. I get strong dark licorice in my mouth with sweetness. Maple flavors come forward but that could be residual effects from my contemplating the color. there’s some hop and roastiness flavors coming through now, along with booze. The brown sugar comes forward after the sip is gone. Interesting. Complex is too string of a word. I’d stick with unusual...but good.

Bottle - 330ml. Dark amber body with an average beige frothy head. Complex malty/hoppy aroma with fruity, woody, and some subtle vanilla hints. Robust hoppy taste with fruity and piney notes. Ends with a long, strong, warming bitter finish. Very well done!

Dated 07/2009. Muddy caramel with scant beige head / Nose of cooked fruit and bourbon / Medium to full body, sweet and somewhat syrupy, but with some hop balance, and long finish / Flavors of caramel, coconut, cooked orange and grapefruit, dates, raisins, oak, and bourbon / An interesting, mellow old thing, possibly lacking the brighter flavor profile of the best, but still a treat.

Tap at Max’s. Pours clear tawny with no head. Aroma is spruce and herbal hops, caramel and cookie malt, spicy alcohol, dates and plums. Flavor is juniper/spruce, heavy malt, light alcohol, dark fruity esters, medium bitterness, light smoky and peaty whiskey with a dry finish. Full body, medium warmth, and light carbonation.

Tap. Pours hazy amber/brown with a trace of fizzy off-white head; short retention and . Aroma is toasted malt, sour fruit, earthy notes, caramel, figs, and booze. Flavor is sweet malt forward, faint hops, and medium fruit esters; booze taste throughout and dry, semi-sweet finish. Medium body, low carbonation, and high warmth.

(bottle) Murky, nearly opaque rust red body with a barely-there-thin head. Aroma is sweet and bright with alcohol, notes of fruit (strawberry, apple, grape) and light spice (cinnamon) and vinegar. Body is medium, sticky mouthfeel. Flavor is sweet with some good acidity and tartness; notes of fruit and whiskey.

Pours a deep copper/red with beige head. Aroma of strong dark malt, alcohol, some dark fruit, some caramel and spice. Flavor of strong malt, caramel, spice, alcohol, and some fruit. Mouth feel is heavy body with low-medium carbonation

Full-some barley wine collaboration beer... Fairly good looking beer, nothing really in terms of head unfortunately. What was there disappeared fast but of course the density of the beer and the alcohol content explain this sufficiently. Nose is a little disappointing for a beer of this complexity - it’s all in the taste really which doesn’t disappoint. It’s multilayered in a pleasing way and is something that quite a few brewdog beers fail to achieve! Sweet dark toffee, caramel and really nice latte notes which are subtle enough so as not to dominate. Velvety texture is sliced through with warm alcohol and then relatively clean grapefruity, hoppy bitterness. There’s not a great deal of length but all round a pretty interesting barley wine.