Mikkeller All Others Pale

The bottle looks really great, the beer in the glass also. Starts a bit alcoholic, modest woody, a bit spicy. Finish more woody, complex, also a bit earthy. Very interesting. Antother great Mikkeller-beer!

Bu au Mondial 2009, le 4 juin (#8). Rousse cuivrée, petit collet. Arome d’houblon fusionné avec de l’avoine malté. Goût légèrement houblonné, un peu de céréal malté, mais l’amerturme camoufle tout. J’aime ça que ça goût autre que l’amerturme!

1pint .9oz bottle. Pours a crystal clear, orangish red body with a finger-width, foamy, off-white head that bubbles away quickly and leaves lots of lacing on the surface with some moderate sticky lacing on the glass. Aroma is heavily sweet, but has lots of aromatic floral hops as well. The big and sweet caramels have lots of apricots, berries, and melons protruding while the initial floral hops seem to give way to more of a dull, earthy bitterness with some citrus and pine. Flavor is quite interesting. Starts out quite sour with a bit of metallic grapefruit. Yields to a very bitter orange peel and sweet caramel that has a bit of a fruitcake bready taste. Has more of the melons and berries from the aroma before finishing with a spicy and herbal bitterness that dries relatively quick and leaves a light puckering sour flavor. Lingers with some heavier earth as well as citrus, melon, and sweet caramel. Palate is medium to full bodied and chewy. Overall, an interesting "pale ale." There are a lot of different things going on here, but it just doesn’t seem to rub me the right way. It seems to be in balance one second and then seems out of balance the next. Big time flavor, but something seems off, making it difficult for me to set this apart from the rest.

D’une couleur orangée trouble, cette bière se déguste faciilement. Bien balancée entre malt et houblon, elle est douce en bouche et a unarrière goût légèrement alcoolisé.

Bottle. Nice cloudy orange/red color. Aroma is filled with fruits and caramel. Some faded hops to. Flavor is caramel,pine,citrus and malt along with a nice bitter finish.

hazy orange, medium tan head that quickly dissipates, nice lace. nose is lightly hoppy, citric and pine. flavor is creamy caramel offset by the citric and pine hops. medium bodied, nicely bitter lingering finish. nicely bitter brew, perhaps not quite as exciting as i rated it, but i probably gave it an extra point for its drinkability. single bottle purchase @ binny’s orland park.

from crackedkettle.com - cloudy orange colour with a little persistent foam; robustly hoppy with notes of apricot and mango; some cream and dust too; good malt body and quite velvety palate; a fair bitterness introduces a long fruity and hoppy finish - very good beer again from Mikkeller

Bottle pours medium brown/gold with a fluffy off white head. Big time grassy aroma with some pine and flroal hoppiness. Medium body with a medium hop bitterness that replicates the aroma. Bitterness nicely matched with the slight candy sweetness and bread like body. Very nice APA made by a non US company.