Mikkeller Single Hop Chinook IPA

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

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Bottle 330ml. @ home.
Clear medium amber to orange color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, fruity, moderate hoppy, citrus - orange. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily - sticky, carbonation is soft. [20100227]

Draft. A hazy dark golden beer with a thin lazing beige head. The aroma has citrusy and grassy notes of hops. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of lime, hops, and hops as well as medium notes of malt and caramel, leading to a very bitter finish.
Earlier Rating: 1/24/2006 Total Score: 3.9
I needed a special treat for my rating number 5500 - so I picked this. A hazy dark red beer with a huge light brown head. The aroma is sweet and very hoppy, flowery, and grassy with some reminicence of grapefruit, but also hints of caramel. The flavor is sweet with a malty slightly toffeish background, which is very fast overpowered by the hops, which at first are grassy and grapefruity, but also quite quickly turn wild with loads of bitterness drying out the mouth and leaving You with a bitter grapefruity flavor that lingers for a long time. Good, but on my tastebuds maybe just over the rim, which I think in part is due to the single variety used - mix in some Cascade.

From tap at Ørsted Ølbar. Pours hazy dark orange with a small white head. Aroma is peachy and mild citrusy. Light grassy to herbal touch yet dominantly peachy and light citrusy into the finish. Rather dry and slight herbal into the finish. Bone dry far finish and leathery impression.

(Bottle 50 cl) Slightly hazy, dark amber with a small, creamy head. But it’s the aroma, that really makes this beer stand out. Wauw, a fantastic aroma of peach, apricot and perhaps also a citrusy touch. The body is not overly full considering the alcohol. Lightly sweet flavours of caramel malt, but it’s the fantastic Chinook hops that completely dominate this brew and also leave a considerable bitterness. 011205

Bottled. Reddish amber colour, mediumsized off-white head. Aroma is fruits, grass and some floral hops along with mild spicy and sweet malty notes. Flavour is quite much the same. Very pleasantly balanced. One of the better in the Single Hop series.

Bottle at home. Clear orange coloured with a medium sized off white head. Fruity and perfumed aroma of peaches, pine needles, citrus, grass and hops. Fruity flavour of citrus, grass, pine needles, hops and grape fruits. Dry hoppy finish.
Earlier Rating: 2/25/2006 Total Score: 3.6
Bottle. Clear orange coloured with an off white head. Aroma of pine needles, hops and citrus. Flavour of pine needles, hops and citrus. Long dry hoppy finish.

Draught at Bishop’s Arms Vasagatan, Stockholm, Cloudy copper colour, small head. Rich grapefruit aroma. Dry and clean with medium body. A bit piney with lots of grapefruit. Marked bitterness. Hop driven against a clean malt background.

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy orange color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish hoppy bitter grapefruit aroma. Sweetish malty hoppy bitter flavor with grassy grapefruit hints. Has a sweetish malty hoppy bitter finish.

Bottle @ Olbutikken, Copenhagen. Pours cloudy golden with a creamy white head and lacings. Nose and flavor is fruity and spicy hops. Lots of citrus and pine. Very dry and super crisp. Smooth palate. Dry lasting end

UPDATED: JUL 26, 2011 2010-08-28, draught at Bishop’s Arms, Malmö, 7-5-7-4-14=37
Cloudy amber color; generous solid head, leaving behind a sticky lace. Aroma of lemon cake, followed by some oranges and caramel. The body seems bolder than its strength suggests; there is a good caramel flavor, some residual sweetness, a biscuity touch, strong bitterness (quite resiny), but also a lack of hop freshness. The final is not particularly amazing.
At the bar they tell me that the keg should be fresh enough, 2/3 months old...

2010-02-14, bottle, 7-4-7-4-14=36
Hazy amber color; creamy head. Pleasant aroma, fruity hop: apricot jam and grapefruit. Crispy and dry toffee flavor; the hop is grassy, resiny, with moderate grapefruit. The final is a bit on the harsh side, it’s a rough hop. Pleasant but tough.