3.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20Looks: Amber, small head
Aroma: Fruity sweet
Taste: Citrus and malt
Overall: Least favourite I tried
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
bottle. Light amber with two finger head. Typical of Mikkeller IPA, there’s a fair amount of malt. I love Citra hops, and this certainly shows them off well. Big fruity hops. Excellent.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle from Beer Cartel. Hazy amber/brown, massive clumps of sediment, medium frothy head, grapefruit, lemon, some ripe stone fruit, over-ripe passionfruit, sweet caramel malt, medium bitterness. Not bad.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
pours cloudy orange with pillowy off-white head and LOTS of yeasty sediment. aroma is mostly funk, floral, and grassy notes, with some bread and maybe some banana as well; it’s obvious this bottle has some age, and there’s only the slightest hint of lemony hops left in the aroma. flavor is caramel malts, grass, and yeast, with very faint traces of piney, citrusy hops. creamy mouthfeel with essentially zero hop bite.. interesting, and still drinkable (if you can get past the heavy sediment), but left me wishing i could try it fresh!
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle: pours cloudy amber with tons of yeast particulates floating around, nice off white head that settles to a ring. Nose is musty, distinctive mikkeller yeast, some fruits but this bottle is obviously past it's prime. More caramel malt sweetness and some breadiness coalescing with some musty earth hop flavors.still drinkable but let's face it, old bottle... Boo.
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3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
33cl Bottle. Blind tasting of all 19 Mikkeller Hop Series beers.
Appearance: amber beer, stable white head.
Nose: a very neutral scent. Didn’t give away much in my opinion.
Taste: very good balance, rather fruity, grapefruit.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Fra flaske på Humle i Annen mars-13: syvende av i alt 19 i serien, her var der en herlig aroma av stikkelsbær. Nydelig smak. IBU 88. den første jeg noterte stjerne i margen for.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Nose is lemon balm, lemongrass, caramel Taste is Grapefruit, pine, weed, caramel. (From tasting of all Hop series Cardinal 11. March)
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle from Mane Liquor. Poured into a tulip, muddy appearance. Obvious hoppy/citrus notes on the nose. Taste was citrus/grapefruit with a slightly bigger caramel maltiness than anticipated. Very drinkable.
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3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
11.2oz bottle in a tulip. Pours cloudy amber with an off-white head. Aroma of citrus hops, some floral notes and caramel and honey from the malts. Flavor the same, with a good amount of hops. Average texture. A good beer, but I’d like to try it fresh.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Mi-Orge Mi-Houblon, Arlon, Belgium
The beautiful copper-colored beer pours into the glass, with a high, creamy, delicate, durable head. It smells very citrus-hoppy, with lots of grapefruit and some caramel. Starts hoppy-sweet, very fruity, with a lot of citrus and grapefruit. The middle part has a lot of tropical fruit and citrus and some pine woods, coupled with a slight grassiness. Goes into a citrus-fruity finish with pine woods and tropical fruits.
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