Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast

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

Bottle @ the HotD dock sale... Poured black with a huge, light, brown head. Roasted nose of sweet malts. Coffee flavors, charred smoked malts. Overall low bitterness and alcohol heat.

500ml bottle. Wanted something special for number 500 and boy did I get it. Pours a thick dark tar colour with an amazing choclate head of crisp dense foam. Aromas of chocolate and coffee beans invites you in and teases you. Strong thick flavours of dark chocoalte that hits every part of the mouth and leaves a flavour burst in the mouth.

Opaque, black, with a larger brown head that leaves behind a sticky lacing. Aroma contains notes of oat, coffee, and chocolate. Flavor consists of roasted coffee, dark chocolate, with a little bit of bite from the hops and the coffee in the finish.

Stout black with a tan head. Quite a nose, abundant with coffee and chocolate malt, but has a slight pilsner-like funk that doesn’t quite mesh. Flavor is rich with the coffee overdose, and not quite as sweet as it needs to be to balance the other complexities to make for a nice lingering finish. Admittedly, I am not a huge fan of ’coffee’ stouts in general. Maybe I am being harsh on this, but I was expecting more. I’d rather have a Kalamazoo.

This very dark beer pours a pitch black with a nice tan head which also leaves behind a nice and sticky lacing. Aroma has roasted malts and coffee. Upon first tasting there is certainly a strong floral hop profile in addition to the chocolate, coffee and the roasted barley. On the aftertaste there is also a lingering taste of dark chocolate which has a slight sweetness to it, though the bitterness overall is more prevalent. For a standard stout, this is very very delicious and complex. There are plenty of other great coffee tasting stouts out there but this one has more than just coffee going for it. Highly recommended.

The nose was weaker than expected. Malty, cereal, oats, roasted coffee, dark chocolate, ash. Much less roasty and much less sweet than expected. Beautiful jet black beer, tan head. The flavor is very nice, roasted coffee, dark chocolate, slightly burnt. The finish has a slight hop bittering, piney, but is bittered from the roasted coffee as well. Beautiful thick oliy mouthfeel. Great beer, not as great as I expected. I thought I was crazy when I first noticed a slight pilsner-like quality on the nose, until I read the label. The oats come through on this to give a oatmeal aroma and thick mouthfeel. At $12-14 per bottle, I won’t indulge in this very often.

I must say, this is a sexxxy looking beer. I dont usually like black gals, but the darkness of this beer, all the way to the deep dark brown head, made me feel all tingly inside. Those was full of milk chocolate, salted nuts, coffee, and roasted malt. Flavors are on the dry side...powdered cocoa, espresso, with american hop bite in the finish. Finishes without much lingering...so, its not much a lingerer..lingererer. This is too dry for me...i need sweetness to allow the chocolate malts to linger..this is too quick, too dry, to crisp in the finish for me to get all mushy about it.

Pitch black with a beautiful brown head that settles rather quickly into a thin layer of lacings on top of the liquid. Plenty of coffee, coffee beans and roasted malts in the nose. Chocolate, faint notes of dark fruits and some alcohol. The taste is full of wonderful coffee flavors - espresso and freshly ground coffee beans. Big malty backbone with a strong roasted character. Plenty of chocolate, some fruity notes, minimal hint of soy sauce, licorice. The finish is fairy bitter with more notes of coffee, some wood and alcohol. The hops are restrained throughout the experience. Full body with a very smooth texture. Low levels of carbonation. This is a great coffee stout with a rich coffee profile. Highly recommended. Serving type: bottle (Copy of old Beer Advocate review)