3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Tasting Session of Mikkeller Hop Series: Tasting nr 7. Darker amber coloured beer with some lighter carbonation and a medium slightly off white head. Fruity hoppy bitter hinted aroma. Medium to full palate. Finish rather bitter with some more sharper hop bitter endings.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours cloudy orange/copper with thick, frothy off-white head; decent retention and some lacing. Aroma is floral hops, caramel and biscuit malt, citrus fruit, pine, and black pepper. Flavor is dominate hops with light/medium bitterness and light supporting malt and citrus esters; dry finish. Medium body, carbonation, and warmth.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Pours clear copper with a large, frothy off-white head, medium retention with good lacing. Aroma is pine, floral, and resin hops, fruity esters and light biscuit malt. Flavor is heavy hops and bitterness with supporting malt and fruity esters and a dry finish. Medium body, warmth, and carbonation.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
bottle. Deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is peach, grafruit, pine. Flavour is peaches, grapefruit, frui, pine. nice beer. Taster no 7. Nice beer.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Piney-floral aroma and taste.
Had this one on tap at the Mikkeller Bar shortly after their single hop series event 2011.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from Kihøskh, Copenhagen
Parallel with Citra, Columbus, Palisade
bb 15.03.13, possibly 3 months old
Hazy light amber color (it seems lighter than other beers from the series), with a small head. The hop aroma comes in timidly; at first there is some caramel, puke, then some mild fruity and resiny notes, citrus fruits. Lean body, dry mouthfeel, with a good toffee flavor; here the qualities of the hop shine more than in the aroma; there are good resins, with some fruity trait and a piney finish; it has almost a British Bitter earthy, spicy, yeasty character. Long final, lean as well.
Good.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. Red, brown and pink with a firm off white pillow of foam. Aromas are grapefruit and creamy oak with floral notes. Marzipan and peanuts with bready yeast. Resinous green pine with spices. Flavours are bittersweet pink grapefruit and lavender with bubblegum. Woody with herbal and spicy notes. Bitter, floral and dry on the finish. Has a perfect palate. Very good.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Clear light orange with a fizzy white head. Nice floral caramel citrus and light earthy pine aroma and taste with a distinct earthy bitterness and an oily palate.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
0.33l bottle from Kihoskh, Copenhagen shared with The Tasting Crew. This one pours a light cloudy unfiltered orange body with a nice almost creamy and lacing off-white head. Aroma is beautifully hoppy. It has notes of fruits, ripe strawberries, and some caramel. First a bit watery then quite oily texture, average carbonation and medium-bodied. Tastes quite different from the fruity and hopy aroma. There’s some thin caramel, licorice, pungent hopy and ends nicely bitter. Good stuff!
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled. Poured hazy medium orange with a creamy, dense, well-retained eggshell head. The aroma picked up lemon zest and fresh floral hoppage over soft pale and biscuity malts.. not my favorite of the hops, but it was reasonably well-balanced. The flavor found sharp, bitter grapefruit zest and floral bitterness over crusty bread and pale maltage.. a bit of oxidation around there too.. finished sharp and bitter. Light-medium bodied with dense, rolling carbonation on the palate.. again it didn’t really come together for me.
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