Mikkeller Single Hop Amarillo IPA

Mikkeller
Brewed at De Proefbrouwerij
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Copenhagen, Denmark

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Thanks Dave. Pours to a very hazy ruby red body with a tan head. The aroma comes off as a lightly smoked hop (I’ve never smelled plain amarillo). The flavor is syrupy smoked hops. The taste is good but hard to describe. The palate is lightly bitter, medium bodied. Seems pretty basic to me, however.

Hazy brown body, foamy tan head. Tame aroma - crushed flower petal and plant stem. Grapey-sweet caramel malt under a bitter grass stem juice hopping. A nice IPA but not all that interesting.

Brown orange pour with a thick cream head. Floral hops dominate the aroma. A bit thin and lacking the bitterness and citrus hops I’d like in an IPA. Like with cheese we probably should have started with this before busting out the double and triple IPA’s.

GIGANTIC foamy tan head very thick and creamy looking well laced visable carbonation and a nice amber/copper color. Aroma is very light some touches of pine and perfumy notes. Palate is fairly light for an IPA, some coating. Flavor is a lightly bitter some perfume & pine flavors light carmel. A very overall light flavor. Decent but very mild.

Hazy dark amber with a thin light moka head. Very smooth floral hops in aroma, with pinhey caracter, restrained and classy. In mouth, again, wonderful hops, restrained and balanced, medium bodied. Top notch. Sampled with Mtl crew, April 16 2006.

UPDATED: DEC 2, 2006 Reddish with long lasting head, reminding me of a female…ahem…acquaintance I had…or is it just Jean Grey of The X-Men? It certainly ended up affecting my mental state…cheeeerssss! So much flower in this, I felt like being part of a Donovan hit – soooo mellow and with a tie-dye bandana invisibly wrapping the bottle. Who stuffed hippie down this beer??? Not as hoppy in flavour as in aroma, but still enough to make me smile and getting wasted on sheer hops. Softly caressing the tongue this is also a jockstrap playground – tightening it’s grip on me and making me trying to decipher once more what the taste is trying to hide for me - is it clover? Is it…sweat? Am I perverted? Yeah, when it comes to Mikkeller, I might just be. I actually wanted to warn everyone about going near Mikkeller’s beers and staying with some of the other Danish brews, but now that they’ve become available on a larger scale and they won’t be sold out all the time, I’ll widely recommend trying them. Careful though: you might just get addicted!

Bottle acquired in a trade with BierKonig. Thanks Jeppe! Copper body with a small tanned head. Nose is hoppy, obviously, but it is a rich juicy hop profile along with sweet malts and a light maple syrupy like aroma. Taste is rife with hops - piney and resinous. Lots of sweet malts, caramel, touch of brown sugar, and some citrus rinds. Body is medium-full with a pleasant lingering bitterness. Some oily resinous notes and mild carbonation. Finishes hoppy, piney and floral. Light caramel and sweet malts. Nice!

Bottle thanks to BierKönig: Pours a lightly hazy dark copper with a thin lacing, wispy off-white head. Very nice fresh piney earthy hoppy aroma has a good caramel malty balance. Body starts with a semi-sweet toffee malty presence turning more bitter, earthy and lightly citric toward a dry crisp finish. An enjoyable IPA.

Any first impressions?
-A creamy head recedes onto the dark, murky ruby-brown.
-Quite citrusy in the nose, a fruitiness laid out onto sturdy wooden planks.
-That yeasty/toasty/chocolatey/cocoa-like signature seemingly endemic to Mikkeller, discusses with a moderate hoppiness.
-The creamy yet fluffy body is not quite Belgian in effervescence, but is more energetic than average.

What if you dig deeper?
-The powdery maltiness and yeast apport are both comfortable.
-A soothing hop bitterness lingers.
-This isn’t as successful as their Simcoe IPA imho.
-Another wildly unique product from Mikkeller, covered with charisma.

Bottle; bør drikkes inden Dec. ’06.

Plenty of hops reach out into your nose. There is also some citrus & caramelly/malt aroma. Brownish in color. Head on the thin side. Good flavors of citrus, hops and malt. Nice balance.