Mikkeller Monks Elixir

Mikkeller
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Copenhagen, Denmark

Serve in Trappist glass

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Bottel.70cl. It dosent have the complex aroma and taste of other Quadrupel´s but never the less, it is better than good.

Bottle, thanks Maria. Dark hazy reddish brown with a medium creamy head. Roasted, nutty, and fruity malt aroma with yeasty notes and a touch of vanilla. medium to heavy bodied, very smooth. Excellent balance, dry finish.

[Another century celebrated with a Mikkeller beer - this time 8600] A deep red beer with a thick but collapsing rocky brown head. The aroma is sweet spicy with notes of brown sugar, yeast, malt, caramel, alcohol, and some berries and fruit, leaning towards being over ripe, the spices include cloves. The flavor is sweet malty with a very complex mix of candy sugar, caramel, yeast, fruit, alcohol, spices (cloves and cinnamon), berries, prunes, and some over ripe fruits, I even find light notes of chocolate - very complex like a Quad should be. At first you are hit by the great complexity with overwhelming power, but then the alcohol gains in strenth and really makes itself known, giving it a great body. The complex flavor lasts for a long time before a dry slightly yeasty and woody finish sets in and lingers for even longer. I also had it on draft, but like the bottled version better - it’s a bit more complex.

tap. it has a very dark brown color with a brown head. it is very sweet like candy sugar. fruity and yeasty.

[Sampled at DØE-festival, Valby, 2007 with svoger.] Hazy brown colour with brown-beige head with aromanotes of dried fruits, such as raisins, banana, yeast. Flavor of alcohol, warmness, complexity, berries, fruits, yeast, medium fullbodied. A very great beer!

On bottle at culminator. A full bodied and nice tasting beer. A little tasting like a stout but still different

[bottle] Dark brown with purple edges. Medium head. Aroma is malt, cocoa and dark berries. Somewhat rough mouth feel. Flavour and aroma is pretty much the same. Alcohol bitter finish. I’m quite sure this will improve with age.

Medium beige head. Deep dark red body. Sweet marzipan and toffee aroma with fruity alcoholic notes and some banana. Sweet watery marzipan taste with a bitter edge and considerable alcohol heat. Roasty, wooden aftertaste. Very mild, but apart from the bitterness it’s a bit boring. (0.3l draft.)

UPDATED: APR 13, 2009 Draught at Københavnske Øldage. Clear, ruby body with a dense, beige head. Sweet nose with dried fruits, alcohol and candisugar. The flavor is the same. Full body. Sweetish, long finish with sugar, alcohol and some prunes. There’s too much alcohol present in this beer, but they should bottle it and let it rest for some time, guess that would make it even better. Rating: 8-5-8-4-15-4. (070511)

Bottle, 75cl corked, at Patricks Pub, Kristiansand. As Monk’s Brew. It pours a hazy, dark brown body topped by a dense dark beige head. Mochaish nose with alcohol, sugars and dried fruits. Some hops too. Sweet on the palate, full-bodied and warming. Chocolate, hops, dried fruits, some roasted malts and a little herbal bitterness. Long finish. A nice one, but I think it would benefit from less mocha flavors. Dangerously easy to drink though. (090321)

københavnske øldage 07. Red dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is coffee, fruit, hop. Flavour is coffee, fruit, malt, hop, alcohol, roasted. Nice beer.