Mikkeller 黑牛 Black Buffalo

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

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle shared with marcus. Has a woody aroma with slight coffee. Pures thick an black with a brown head. Has a whisky finish with a smoothness.

Molt intensa en tots els seus sentits. Vainilles, plàtans, torrats, cafès... Per acabar un bon àpat. Es recomana compartir. Final agradablement alcohòlic. Genial.

Bottle from Bine and Vine. Pours dark brown/black with a dark tan head. Aroma is alcohol with chocolate. Med body. Flavor is alcohol, chocolate, and smooth burnt malt. The bourbon finally appears. Strongly. The alcohol muddles the flavors. An interesting experience.

Bottle shared by bhensonb. Pours black with a thin tan head and a treacle and alcohol aroma. There is a strong chocolate and alcohol flavor, mostly alcohol, with a long alcohol trail. It’s like drinking hard liquor with chocolate in it.

0.5 L bottle from Capone’s. Pours oily thick crow black with 2-finger well-retained brown head. Nose is rich and creamy oaky bourbon, vanilla, charred malt. Tastes rich, with a heavy charred chocolate malt, huge hops, oaky spirity bourbon, and finishing hops. Starts and stays very hot. Now then, considering that ABV of 19.3%, the question becomes this: Does this beer have merit as a beer, or does it cross the beer/spirit boundary in such a way as to offend the beer drinker? My answer is this: It smells like a bit of a charred smacked bourbon ass, and the flavor is hot, a bot thin of mouthfeel for a beer yet perfectly fine for a bourbon. This is a beer that may make me go back to the library and change my rating ways, because I would gladly pay 20 bucks for a fifth of this as a spirit, but as a beer it is a bit rough and harsh. Still, that roughness and harshness challenge my nose and tongue and engage them is ways that aren’t commonly seen in any beer, so I proclaim that this works as either a calm spirit or a harsh beer. In the end, my analysis is this: I found this beer harsh, offensive, over the line, in your face, and at 40 proof, a bit high on the Plao scale, but as much as I may have disliked, I liked even more. Give me ballsy beers like this any day over weak spirits or non-dedicated pretenders, this one is the real deal, and either man up and give it a proper, fair score according to your own nomenclature, or just stick to rating wheat beers, you wanker.

bottle shared with bman113vr pours a dark black hue with a small light brown head that is mostly dimnishing aroma of alcohol, dark fruits, coffee and molasses- alcohol dominates the aroma though flavor is full of coffee and once again lots of booze notes

UPDATED: MAY 18, 2012 Thick, black, oily lookin’ liquid. Surprisingly there is a relatively good amount of brown head. Aroma of whisky, roasted malt and coffee. Flavour of whisky, strong coffee, dry hoppiness and roasted malt. Delicious beer with a strong kick to the groin.

375ml bottle. The pour isn’t pitch black but pretty close, translucent chocolate brown out of the bottle, settling in under a thick mocha head that shows excellent retention and lacing. Really surprised at the head and lacing on a beer this big. Aroma is bourbon, vanilla and a metric ish-ton of heavily roasted chocolate malts, not quite charred, just heavily roasted with dark chocolate and espresso beans. The taste just doesn’t measure up to the aroma. Alcohol up front, ethyl alcohol in fact. If regular Black tastes like charred earth (which it does in my opinion), then this is kinda like bourbon on the rocks...iis the rocks were pieces of charred earth. Burns like hell going down. Mouthfeel is well carbonated given the alcohol but is all booze. This makes Black Tuesday drink like Prima Pils. Doesn’t hide the booze at all - the only flavors that do come out are charred malts and licorice. Just not my thing.

Bottle. Pours with a very large, deep brown head over a near black body. Aromas are strongly of alcohol, dark fruits, dates, nutty, bourbon, vanillin, peanuts, cashews, woody, caramel, maple. Very hot, milk chocolate. Lots of fumes. Flavors show a big roast, nutty, very fusel, harsh, oak, peanuts, roast, ashes, bourbon. Complex but very rough. Syrupy, fusel, bourbon, sharp and big. Somehow this tastes a lot harsher than actual Buffalo Trace.

[bottle--thanks, fonefan!] Potent black malt aroma that is pretty dry. Faint bubblegum with harsh roasted malt, a little ethanol, and a blast of sour pumpernickel. Opaque, oily black under a ruddy, light brown foam that recedes to a dense ring and lacing. Strong roasted barley flavour with tons of vanilla and bitter, unsweetened chocolate. Ethanol flavour is not too apparent but the beer is very warming. Black current, spicy black pepper (not phenolic), and bitter walnut accents. Full body, moderate to medium carbonation, bitter chocolate finish that actually is astringent.