Mikkeller All Others Pale

Mikkeller
Brewed at Ørbæk Bryggeri
Style: American Pale Ale
Copenhagen V, Denmark

650ml bottle from Bev4less. Pours a copper color with a big fluffy white head that has great retention. The aroma is moderate in strength with caramel and some piney hops. The flavor has a sweet barleywine quality with caramel malts and mild pine hops. The mouthfeel is full and malty. The finish is short and dry. Overall: A very enjoyable, but ordinary, pale ale.

Beautiful red brown color with a thick lasting beige head. Fine lacing. Aroma: Dominated by citrussy amarican hops but discrete caramel and malt also. Taste: Very bitter citrussy taste, but quite good balanced by the malty background. Very typpical Amarican Pale Ale and a good representent for the genre.

500 ml bottle @ Kaarna, Helsinki. Slightly cloudy amber color, off-white head. Hoppy aroma with some citric notes. Hoppy flavor with caramel and a grapefruity finish. Medium-full body, medium carbonation. Too grapefruity for my taste, though well-crafted.

Pours a deep copper color with a thick dark off-white head. The dissapates some but leaves behind some real attractive lacing. Aromas of sweet citrus, earthy dirt, some sweet caramel, and other notes of sweet fruits as well. This beer is rather bitter throughout but there are some strong notes of earth and dirt. Some hay is rather noticeable as well. The malt doesnt seem to show itself very much, it kind of hides in the back.

Mondail 2009, Montreal. Copper orange with a ring of head. Nice lacing, though. Citrus hops in the aroma, along with sweet fruit and caramel. Lotsa c-hops in the flavour as well, again with some sweet fruit and thin caramel. The hops hit about midway through. Body is quite full for the style; the medium-to-low carbonation is very effective. Short bitter finish.

Pours a cloudy amber color with a thick, rocky offwhite head. Interesting aroma of fruity, resinous hops. Good flavor of fruity, resinous hops and malt. The body is light while the carbonation is soft. This is an interesting pale ale.

Bottled 50cl. Aroma: Malt, quince, fennel, liquorice allsorts, peach, a huge amount of mango, lychee, hop resin, sweat with some very slight spring onion (!) sneaking in which I associate with the usage of nugget hops- I found the same component in the Mikkeller Single Hop Warrior IPA. Appearance: Hazy dark copper with a nicely lasting medium sized light beige head. Some lacework. Flavor and palate: Rather nice. Almost too full bodied for the style. Good american hop profile which brings some bitterness. Decent, rather present malty back. Balanced. Some spring onion, raisin, sweat and tobacco sneaking in. The fennel characteristic is less present in the taste. Leafy. A tad salty. Dry biscuity finish which is reminiscent of licorice, crackers, hop resin and spring onion. Overall impression: Good. Too malty and full bodied in my opinion though. Almost like an American strong ale. Not a good example of the style but rather pleasant.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy, golden body with a nice sized. A bouquet of floral hops on the nose. More hops on the tongue mixed with light notes of sweet malts. Overall, this a refreshing beer and an incredibly good American pale ale.