Mikkeller Monks Elixir

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

Serve in Trappist glass

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On tap at Biero. Full marks, explosive beer. Aromas of toffee, apple, tropical fruit, nuts, hint of alcohol. Taste is sweet, with salty notes, and very long length. Palate is creamy, and full bodied. Dark brown, with a frothy head.

Pours super dark brown with large fluffy tan head. Smells strongly of dark fruits, bread, rich, dark malts, and decent hoppiness. Taste follows the nose with some alcohol mixed in so that the flavor of the dark fruits is similar to rum soaked fruits, with yeastiness and malts hand in hand. Full-bodied with a smooth texture and present mouth-carbonation, Mikkeller Monk’s Brew finishes with a touch of alcohol coupled with maltiness.

Style; glass: ABT/Quadrupel; Trappist 25.4 fl oz x 10% ABV = 254 / 60 = 4.23 beers * 150 C = 634.5 calories (est.) Purchased at: The Foodery at 3rd and Arch, Philadelphia, PA for $25.00 Aroma: caramel, tar, dirt, dust, earth, wine, fruit, cherries, mold, cellar, dank Visuals: brand conscious packaging, stylish, deep dark copper body, tan head, staying, looks like an illustration of hell, in a good way. Taste: well balanced, sweetness up front gives way to funky sourness, and finishes with a delicate bitterness. Phenomenal. Palate: active carbonation, not drying, rounded mouthfeel. Overall: Delicious, if expensive. Like many other Mikkeller brews, this one is a great take on the style.

UPDATED: NOV 7, 2007 (Ølfesival 2007, bottled, 1 month older than tap version) Slightly hazy brown, beige, small head. Exelent mix o´ herbs and milk chokolate in the aroma. Also a handfull of malts and a dry port in there. Like taking the panties of a semitattooed, leftwing brunette; the alcohol reveals it self in the very last point of the mouthfeel. Effin waves of malt, alcohol and yeasts turns into a riot of true enjoyment, like the late Jagtvej 69; mixed of difference, turned into magic. Tapped version: one month younger than bottled version in this rating. Much lighter in all aspects, espessially the finish; 3.8

Bottle. Very dark brown with a nice cappucino coloured head. Wow! An aroma of chocolate, dried fruit, toffee and a hint of flowers (tulips?). Very complex. On the palate it is massive and appears slightly sweeter than it actually is (FG=1007). Loads of malty notes, chocolate and dark candij sugar. Very nice creamy mouthfeel. This is a great beer. By far the best dark Belgian ale to be produced by a Danish Micro so far and a worthy challenger to the best Belgian ales made around the world.

75cl bottle at Olympen. Labelled as Monks Brew. It poured a very dark brown, almost black colour with a big light-brown creamy head. The aroma is sweet and fruity with notes of raisins, hops, vanilla and strawberry. Very nice. The flavour is also sweet and fruity, again with notes of raisins, hops, vanilla and strawberry. Very little alcohol. It has a lingering, but a bit short aftertaste. This is one of the best beers from Mikkeller yet.

Mahogany brown ale with thick creamy head and characteristic brettanomyces yeast aroma. Sour cherries, caramel and chocolate hide underneath the funk. Thick body with fantastic complex flavour, sweet at first, then sour, finishing with roasty chocolate and rich fruits. Very little alcohol presence. Very easy to drink for 10%!

got lucky and had a night of good beers. had never even heard of this brewer before a good friend introduced me to this beer. difficult to find flaws in this beer that somehow has reproduced a kind of expert home-brewed feel to it. mine poured a dark brownish color with little head. kind of cloudy looking. aroma was pretty hard to identify except for a very refined yeast and fruit. the flavor told me that some love went into brewing this one. all kinds of stuff hitting me at once, but all very softly.

<Draught at Ølbaren> Even after all the christmas brews, this one was still powerfull. Absolutly amazing vinouse nose of alchohol tons of begian yeast transformed into darkfruits, some brown sugar and caramel aswell. Bubbling texture and a nice intense mouthfull with sweet fruity notes and a very plesant warming alchohol.

On draught at Copenhague beerfestival 2007. Pours a red copper brown beer with a slight beige head. A lot going on in the aroma’s, lots of fruits, lots of berries, some roastyness and hints of coffee. Flavour got me to think of the westey 12 of four years old. Bready flavours with addition of coffee, caramel and a good balanced touch of bitterness. Mikkeller proves here to be brewing at higher standards than most belgians do. Very well balanced and alcohol extremely well hidden. Nice sweet and long finish.