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[Bottled. Big thanks to joergen] Muddy, ark brown colour. Huge off-white/green-ish head. What a beauty to look at! Loads of hops in the aroma, well accompanied with a light roasty, also bit smokey touch. And YES, the flavour is hugely hoppy with a roasted character that goes VERY well with the residual malt-sweetness. There is chocolate and hints of smoke, sweetish licorice. Long long flavour. Ultra-chewy mouthfeel. The winner of this mornings lineup of 3 Mikkeller beers.

Very dark brown (almost black) colored beer with a small bubbly beige head that is fast disappearing. Aroma is complex, burned, black caramel sweet, flowery, sweet spicey and has touches of a fruitcake that has been far to long in a hot oven. The sweetness in the aroma is of a nice malty caracter. It works wonderwell with the refreshing herbalness of the hops and the fine bitters of the roasted malts. The taste is very original and has a good balance. The sweetness of the malt extraction is giving this brew a ferm backbone that can carey the powerfull roasted body along with the very complex hints of violets, soft asian spices, burned edges of sugar bread, german schartzbröt with a thick layer of pear jam (sirop de Liège). The afthertaste is burned sweet, has a fine and well integrated bitterness of hops. It also has touches of stuffed and caramelized fruits and ends with a rich mild malty sweetness with a flair of heavey roasted nuts. Again a very original brew from the Mikkeller Brewery. Great job Guys !

Deep dark brown with almost no foam. In the beginning of the pour, big bubbles are formed, they are disappearing fast. The smell is complex. It has touches of drop, tar, black caramel, sweet plum cake, lots of spices they put in desserts, malts, dry fruits (figgs) and flowersents of hops. The taste is very interesting. It is slight sweet, earthy, has some coffee like hints, touches of fruit, thea, wood and a good untherbuild bitterness of hops. Finale is full of great tastes.

Bottle; pours very dark brown with thin head that dissolves quickly. The aromas are made of citrusy American hops, dried fruit (figs and raisins), toffee and some chocolate. On the palate it’s mediumbodied with a fine balance between the very present sweetness and the bitterness. As always in a Mikkeller brew you DO notice the bitterness, but much less so than the IBU value would indicate, which is definetely due to the residual sugars. The taste is primarily a nice - not over the top - caramel flavour with coffee notes and of course, plenty of hops. What can I say? They’ve done it again....

A real crowd pleaser, brown, very full, but never sickly sweet, taste from the malt (a bit burnt, but i dooo like it that way!), and the choise of hops realy suits the beer. Go find it now...