Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast

Mikkeller
Brewed at Nøgne Ø
Style: Stout
Copenhagen V, Denmark

16.9 oz bottle saved for a long time and finally poured with a friend, likely from Binnys (Orland Park, IL). Pours a midnight black, fairly large dark brown head that dies to a small layer, opaque, thick. Aromas are a dark malt bomb, roasted malts, coffee, oatmeal sweetness, faint chocolate. Very nice. Initial is coffee dominant, oatmeal sweetness to balance, toast and big roasted malts. Strong hop bitterness in the finish, with good creamy chocolate, coffee and espresso, with heavy roasted malts. Caramel, vanilla, and an overall oatmeal sweetness. The bitterness in the finish is quite profound. A good move towards big breakfast stouts. Finish wins it points for me.

500 ml bottle .Pours jet black with a nice huge brown head .Very strong aroma of roasted malt ,licorice and coffee.Tastes the same as it smells but even better.The roasted coffee flavors just lingers on.Complex and really enjoyable.Easily one of the best things to drink for breakfast.

500ml bottle. Would have to say this is officially the first coffee stout i’ve ever tried, outside of the world of homebrew. Perfect pour with a rocky brown head capping a sinfully black opaque body. Glass is painted brown all the way down. Strong aroma, complex roasted malt; bitter cocoa, black coffee, burnt toast, smoke, stewed cereals, salty liquorice, charred wood. Some noticable hop citrus with undertones of vinous fruit and supporting alcohol. Carbonation is relatively low, texture is velvet like, oily, very rich and thick, would be liqueur-like if wasn’t counter-balanced with an obtrusive bitterness that seems to be both grain and hop derived. Huge smack in the face of flavour on the body, like a shot of very strong and particularly fine espresso. Typical dark chocolate and burnt toffee in there bolstered by rich notes of toasted cereal, charred wood, smoked meat, earthy cinnamon, black grape tannin. Taste just lingers and lingers and then some, brutally drying and bitter, begging for more and enough to make you ignore the 7.5% alcohol in there. Truely amazing stout. Totally not what I expected, yes, there’s coffee in there and it does have the flavour of coffee, but there’s so much more to it and the textures and complexities of flavour, well, you get the idea, it’s good!

Bottle. Black colour with a huge light brown head. The aroma is coffee, roasted malt and liquorice. Espresso flavour with roasted malt and dark chocolate with a hint of liquorice. Long roasted coffee aftertaste with some bitterness, medium to full-bodied.

Deep black color with very thick beige foam. Sweet malty aroma but not super distinctive. Excellent balance of subtle hop flavor with complex roasted coffee, dark fruit, and grapes.

Poured thick velvety black with deep caramel head that laced nicely. Aroma of thick chocolate and coffee, with very little alcohol. Tastes of huge coffee and chocolate notes that is balanced well with bitter hop notes. Excellent stout!

500 mL bottle from Beer Run in Charlottesville, VA. Pours purely pitch black with a medium dark brown head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of rich roasted malt and chocolate notes. Taste is strong bitter coffee with lots of roasted malts. Bitter hop notes linger in the finish. Smooth silky body. Very nice beer.