3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle, 33 cl. Hazy golden amber with a nice, frothty white head, good retention and lace. High hoppy aroma. Peach and grapefruit. Flavor is light malty sweet caramel, toasted with a hight dose of fruity hops and a massive bitterness in the finish. Drinkabillity is high albeit the ABV.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 7/20
In short: A brutal Double IPA abrasive in all fronts. Very low drinkability.
How: Bottle 330ml, consumed soon after purchase, however fresh a Danish Double IPA can be in a Vermont store.
The look: Muddy orange-amber body topped by a small off-white head.
In long: Nose has lots of ripe fruits (apricots, passion fruits, gooseberries), moldy bread, dank basement, this is far from a bright and vibrant aroma. Taste is very boozy upfront (10.5% very apparent), a lot of toasted crunchy sugary sweetness, sweet mangos, dried and candied fruits, banana peels, bitter orange peels, pine tree, hops resin. Abrasive harsh bitterness. My god this was a brutal beer, hard to find anything good to say about an excessively aggressive beer like this one. Unfortunately it is becoming more and more apparent that the goal is now to make intensely tasty beer, but I prefer a discreet blandly drinkable mild ale over an brutal slap in the mouth like this beer. Everything I don’t like about a Double IPA. Overall IIPA is overall a IIPA that is overall too brutal so I will not be all over Overall because overall Overall IIPA is not a IIPA that is overall good even if Overall gets overall good ratings I don’t think Overall is good overall.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Straight orange pour from bottle. Not much head. Crazy tropical citrus taste. Thick and heavy. Enjoyable beer but 1 at a time
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours deep amber with a fading head.
Masses of pine and resinous hops on the nose along with a massive hit of clean malt and caramel.
Super full-on flavours, heaps of pine and resinous, spicy and earthy hops along with loads more clean malt underneath. Finishes with an aggressive but balanced bitterness.
Carbonation could be a bit higher.
4.4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 16/20
Big caramel malts and hop bite. Really awesome! But what isn't from Mikkeller?
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3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Smak och doft av humle, tropisk frukt och toner av citrus och grape. Trevlig beska med smak av grape och granskott.
4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours completely opaque amber with a short, yellow/tan head.
Aroma of pine, gin, peach,...sugary.
Taste is syrupy sweet tropical fruit, caramel, spices, pepper, with a slight alcohol bitter alongside the hops....
Very complex, highly malted, highly sweet, highly bittered, high ABV....
A little rough, but much more tasty than expected...
Big...nicely balanced.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Petite bouteille partagée avec Patrick, merci pour cette découverte. Le liquide est orangé avec une mousse beige. Le nez offre des agrumes provenant de la dose massive de houblon, du caramel et de toffee. Du chocolat au lait arrive du fait que la bière ne semble pas être tout droit sortie de la ligne d’embouteillage. La bouche est mordante et juteuse. Les saveurs sont prononcées de caramel et de houblon amer. Classique comme tout.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
(33 cl from kbudd19. Thanks!) Une bière qui n’est pas tellement belle à regarder. Une bière intéressante à sentir : principalement des agrumes (pamplemousse, lime, orange fraîchement pressé) et une base maltée qui penche vers le sucre caramélisé. Une bière très savoureuse : les fruits sont très juteux, acidulés et amers. Les malts restent en retrait et cette situation me plaît beaucoup. Une bière bien construite : elle est légère et bien aérée. Cet état de fait me semble très bien pour une DIPA qui tire autant en pourcentage d’alcool. Une bière qui termine sa course de belle façon : les houblons sont puissants et frais, aromatiques et amérisants. Une bière simple et pas compliquée qui ne demande qu’à être bue en bonne compagnie.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
What is that heavenly sent wafting from the bottle, its yummers is what it is. Glowing cloudy tan body with almost no cap floating on top, it sure look perrty. This aroma is what I live for...heavy heavy peach, lots of tropical fruit, hints of caramel malt. I must drink now!!! Sweet peachy front with big bitter finish. Caramel, pineapple, peach, leather. Wholly crap the drool I’m producing is retarded. I think I might be overselling this beer. I keep hitting vanilla........ seems odd. Tobacco and ash, all is good with life. Why is this beer so pricy, I’d buy so much more but the price per bottle stops me.
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