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Mikkeller ApS
 
Denmark
Style:
American Strong Ale
ABV:
12%
Score:
84
Avg:
3.72 | pDev: 12.37%
Reviews:
12
Ratings:
60
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Apr 15, 2017
Added:
Nov 08, 2014
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  9
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Ratings by Westyn:
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Rated by Westyn from Texas

3.88/5  rDev +4.3%
look: 3.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4

Mar 30, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.51 by mrfrancis from Kentucky

Apr 15, 2017
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Reviewed by GuyFawkes from Illinois

3.39/5  rDev -8.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
Late 2014 vintage; drank 2/22/15 @ the Yarchives.

Murky orange appearance; some visible flotsam.

Khaki head; almost no lace.

Cream, caramel & booze heat in the nose.

Medium thick mouthfeel.

Cream, rice & booze heat in the nose.

Medium thick mouthfeel.

Cream, rice & booze heat flavors up front; vanilla sweetness & more booze heat emerged as this warmed. Fairly terrible; a cloying booze bomb. Avoid!
Nov 28, 2016
 
Rated: 3.25 by tykechandler from Kentucky

Nov 15, 2016
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Reviewed by aleigator from Germany

2.71/5  rDev -27.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
Pours a murky, dark orange color with no head at all.

Smells of vanilla accompanied straw and caramel glazed malts. Has a profound earthiness underneath, with a pleasant amount of dusty coffee, completed by marzipan.

Drinks completely flat, which is fine, due to the bigger body of the beer. Features a very different looking and tasting stout, since this has an unusual thin mouthfeel, while producing a cloying sweetness during the beginning, which turns a tad dryer at the finish.

Tastes of rock sugar, vanilla bean and a soft coffee dryness, producing dough malts and sugared cookies. Coffee brings a nice, spicy punch to the palate, with cardamom and cinnamon, perfectly blending into the malts. Finishes creamy with spices being still on the palate, soft, with a dry touch from the coffee.

Very unusual for an imperial stout, not only regarding its color but also its other features. Its coffee presence is way less pronounced than in all other beer geek variants, with the unusual lack of carbonation producing a sweetness which makes the beer pretty one dimensional apart from its vanilla spice accent.
May 16, 2016
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Colorado

3.09/5  rDev -16.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Love Mikkeller's beer geek stouts, love the few white stouts I've tried. Expectations are huge for this.

11.2 fl oz bottle. Brown glass. Siren branded pry-off crown cap.

12% ABV. Imported by the Shelton Bastards.

Served chilled into a snifter and allowed to come to temperature over the course of the live review.

HEAD: ~1 finger wide. Off-white colour. Somewhat creamy, but still inadequately so. Somewhat soft. Consistency is even. Complexion could be better. Not the rich expressive dark tan one hopes for in a great stout (white or otherwise), but passable. Retention is good for the ABV - ~5 minutes. Leaves a nice thick coating of lacing as it recedes.

BODY: Fairly vibrant copper. Translucent, transparent. Clean, without visible yeast or sediment.

Appears well-carbonated. It's darker than any other white stout I've tried - which I think actually works against the style. It looks more like an IPA than anything else, actually. I find the yellow of other white stouts more appealing personally, but such details seem unimportant in this nascent style.

AROMA: Creme brulee. Odd spice. Pronounced coffee/java notes; the coffee character here is much more interesting than it is in most coffee stouts. I'm not finding the cocoa at all. Some char.

Aromatic intensity is average. Brilliantly, this never betrays even a hint of booze - contrary to its high ABV.

TASTE: Characterized by an odd almost herbal hop-redolent spiciness, this makes for an odd white stout build. Its best feature is definitely the coffee/java. The vanilla is barely present, but combined with the char it almost evokes a barrel-like flavour. I find no cocoa. The malt backbone is puzzling; I'd guess English pale malts mixed with some chocolate malt? I detect no roasted barley.

It's nicely put together and isn't imbalanced, but it never quite comes together in such a way that it truly seems like a gestalt whole of a flavour profile. If not imbalanced, then unbalanced.

TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, aptly medium-bodied, and wonderfully supple and soft. Carbonation is about perfect.

It's not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, harsh, rough, or scratchy. Has a good overall presence on the palate as a result.

Constructively, it has some bothersome coffee-like acidity that really doesn't belong.

OVERALL: There's no harmony of texture and taste here, but the beer is surprisingly drinkable for its 12% ABV. No, it's not on par with other beers in the Beer Geek series - many of which I count amongst the best beers I've ever had - but I'm glad I tried it once, and would likely buy it again at more reasonable Danish prices. A worthwhile addition to Mikkeller's extensive lineup, but ultimately a bit of a let down in terms of its style; I much prefer most of the other (and admittedly few) white stouts I've tried.

High C+ (3.24) / ABOVE AVERAGE

***
2018/09/11 impression from an aged bottle:

A hodgepodge of disparate disharmonious flavours that hides its ABV well. Call it an additive ale.

Coffee character is subpar at best; it's barely present. Not as sweet as I feared, which is good. Not a dessert stout, nor really truly a stout.

Mediocre fare from a brewery whose Beer Geek Series was a major contributor to my getting into beer in the first place.

C / AVERAGE
Dec 21, 2015
 
Rated: 3.8 by teraflx from Arizona

Sep 29, 2015
 
Rated: 3.74 by durlta from Iowa

Sep 20, 2015
 
Rated: 3.79 by Petegrieco from Massachusetts

Sep 11, 2015
 
Rated: 3.79 by Masters from Massachusetts

Aug 29, 2015
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Reviewed by madelfonatree from Ohio

4.27/5  rDev +14.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Purchased July 2015 enjoyed in August 27, 2015 in a Mad Elf tulip/snifter.

Look - Murky with sediment. Dark yellow almost clay colored. Little to no white head that dissipates quickly. No lacing.

Smell - Sweet. Booze. Smoke. Char. Coffee. Cream. Fruit. Tootsie Roll. Cinnamon.

Taste - Smoke. Coffee. Cream. Booze. Chocolate.

Feel - Very good. Medium to heavy. No carbonation and very creamy.

Overall - A white stout is a tricky character. This is better than Butcher and the Brewer's in Cleveland.
Aug 29, 2015
 
Rated: 3.8 by boogerisu from Iowa

Aug 08, 2015
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Rated by beerchic from Ohio

3.52/5  rDev -5.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
This is a weird beer, well, it is Mikkeller after all. As long as you appreciate it for what it is, and purports to be, it is good.
Aug 04, 2015
 
Rated: 3.99 by RyanTheLion13 from Iowa

Jul 31, 2015
 
Rated: 4.08 by Newport_beerguy from Rhode Island

Jul 28, 2015
 
Rated: 3.79 by Poupae from Thailand

Jul 19, 2015
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Rated by Jstonerock24 from Ohio

2.86/5  rDev -23.1%
look: 2 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
Looks like crap. Tastes like crap. Can mikkeller do anything right with their beer geek series. Drain pour!
Jun 19, 2015
 
Rated: 3.89 by Washuffizi98 from Tennessee

Jun 15, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by MarkyMOD from Colorado

Jun 10, 2015
 
Rated: 3.74 by mattreitz49 from Florida

Jun 05, 2015
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