2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Big beer. Dark pour. White pour. Pretty good beer. Not bad. Pretty good I'd have it agoaib
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Hazy brown light pour.. meh on taste..dead fruit. Pretty ddecent..not my fav mikkeller...
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 1/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
Aroma is mild fruity, Orange, pineapple, slightly yeasty. App-cloudy Orange, a lot of sediment large white globules. Small creamy head. very refreshing. Alcohol is well mask. Light taste with a creamy finish. Smooth light feel, very nice to drink. Carcobation is low for an IPA, but this beer feels good. A nice Ipa.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
light beige head that slowly disappears, good lacing. hazelnut brown somewhat cloudy. malty, yeasty, hoppy and spicy aroma. spicy flavour followed by a bitterness and caramel. long soft bitter aftertaste with some nut-like taste. medium body and medium carbonation. quite good but not my favorite in the series. bottle 33cl
3.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
33cl Bottle. Blind tasting of all 19 Mikkeller Hop Series beers.
Appearance: amber beer, stable white head.
Nose: Sugar, caramel even.
Taste: a full all round sweetness, i think this hop can bring a very good balance in a beer.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at home in London. Pours mostly clear caramel-gold with a large, off-white foam head. Toasted pine in the nose, light brown sugar, brown bread. Light to medium sweet flavor, crunchy leaves, brown sugar, dried out pine. Medium bodied average carbonation. Bitter leaves to finish, further brown sugar notes, brown bread. Seems a bit faded.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Fra flaske på Humle i Annen mars-13: Nr. 17, og flere i panelet har kastet inn glasset og forlatt åstedet. Ovesen & jeg holder stand! Bitter (tross kun 38 IBU som var en av kveldens laveste), men deilig. Fruktig og god. Fikk først en stjerne i margen, men den ble strøket. hvorfor husker jeg ikke...
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Nose is toasted, caramel and some pine. Taste is fruity and buttery. (From tasting of all Hop series Cardinal 11. March)
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle (discounted) from Five Points Bottle Shop (Lumpkin St.) in Athens. Yeast, sugar, butter, and very little hops in the aroma. Deep copper color, huge (4-5cm) head, very rocky. Minor malty initial / mid has some caramel and rust / fairly clean finish, and aftertaste has little knife edges of menthol. Thin-medium body. Okay. Not quite what I was expecting. Very little hop presence. Maybe a bit too old, since I see that the first reviews of this beer date from about two years ago. BTW, this beer should be listed on RB in the "Mikkeller Single Hop" group
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
33cl bottle, Geers. - 4 or 5 experiments in, this Single hop series is beginning to delve its way in my long-term interests (and also: finances). Willamette, Cluster and Galena we the mysterious ones I got hold of first, and pretty much all flew below the radar of the more pronounced blended aromas of my favourite UK and US (I)PAs. This is the first one to make a bold, if expectedly unidirectional impression: aroma is rather contained and earthy, the hop flavours are earthy, zesty spice and above all thick fruity caramels like in a solid traditionally British pale ale. What impresses me most about this example is how well the full malt base (feature of the whole series) backs up and works in accord with this ESB hop.
Nice to sample this series haphazardly and in very broad intervals: now only to come across the remaining contingent (and a budget to match) ...
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