Invasion IPA
Mikkeller ApS

Invasion IPAInvasion IPA
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From:
Mikkeller ApS
 
Denmark
Style:
American IPA
ABV:
7%
Score:
88
Avg:
3.92 | pDev: 10.2%
Reviews:
55
Ratings:
151
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jun 27, 2021
Added:
Sep 28, 2011
Wants:
  1
Gots:
  12
Collaboration with Anchorage Brewing Company

Mikkeller’s stateside brew Invasion IPA has been brewed at Drake’s Brewing Company in California, Against the Grain Brewery & Smokehouse in Kentucky, and Anchorage Brewing Company in Alaska.
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Ratings by KevdoggNasty:
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Rated by KevdoggNasty from California

3.75/5  rDev -4.3%

Mar 28, 2012
More User Ratings:
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Reviewed by tide from California

4.4/5  rDev +12.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Batch #4, October 2015. Its fermented in Anchorage, Alaska.

This is a vintage bottle, stayed in my “cellar” for long time. The foam is very rich, it will fill the glass more than half of foam. The foam disappears quickly. The beer is very pale golden color. It smells fruity, like pear, dried apricot and apple juice. And apparently it’s a Brett beer, there’s a strong farmhouse funkiness in the smell. There’s also a strong woody aroma, like white oak and cork wood. It tastes light to medium body. The beer starts with bitter, which turns to a fruity and jammy sweetness in the middle, the aftertaste is a long lingering bitterness. The beer is funky, like a warm summer barn. But I won’t link that to bathroom, it’s more like cheese funky say Brie and some Goat cheese. There’s some white pepper spice along with the funkiness, which is common for Brett farmhouse ale. The IPA have a malty backbone, it’s sweet in the middle and leaves some stone fruit aromas. I can sense apple juice, Turkey apricot, ripe pear, white wine grape aromas, that feels like sliced fruits in a cheese plate. The aftertaste is mostly hops bitter, wet hopping hops, I can get a bit of pine leafy aroma along the bitterness. In overall this Brett IPA is elegant and aromatic, I can’t find stale feeling after a long aging. There’s fizzy mouth touch, like a champagne.
Jun 27, 2021
 
Rated: 3.86 by deereless from Colorado

Aug 20, 2020
 
Rated: 4.12 by AllanPatchin1016 from Ohio

Jul 21, 2018
 
Rated: 4 by kylehay2004 from Illinois

Sep 17, 2017
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Reviewed by Extrajoker00 from Ohio

4/5  rDev +2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Got the Anchorage brewing company blob/ monster bottle. Nice cloudy citrus haze. Some grassy, earthy tones. A bit off my pallet, but well done never the less
Jul 10, 2017
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Reviewed by FFreak from Vermont

4.55/5  rDev +16.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
750 ml bottle made in collaboration with Anchorage Brewing - with a different label than is showing here - sort of a blob-like monster graphic on a typical Anchorage bottle. Poured into a teku. This is a beautiful beer. Hazy, glowing, lemonade yellow with a tall, pure white head that leaves a nice trail of lace. Smell is lemony with a hint of straw and yeast. Taste is awesome....complex and changing in interesting ways as it oxidizes. Mouth is medium body, slightly dry, nicely carbonated. Overall, a brilliant combination of hoppy IPA with brett. Fantastic beer.
May 05, 2017
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Reviewed by aronamerican from Ohio

4.01/5  rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a hazy light yellow with copious, interminable head. Funky and smooth like a George Clinton album. The Brettanomyces does an outstanding job covering up the fairly high abv. Incidentally, the bomber I procured flounts a groovy candle label. Bonus points for that.
Mar 18, 2017
 
Rated: 3.5 by fosters9 from New York

Mar 06, 2017
 
Rated: 3.5 by Whiskeydeez from Kansas

Sep 08, 2016
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Reviewed by q33jeff from New Jersey

3.32/5  rDev -15.3%
look: 2.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25
**
04/06/2013
Aroma is lemon, grapefruit…a touch of pine. Cloudy Dark yellow color; small creamy head.Taste is refreshing though a bit pasty/bitter/stale. Good Beer however, with a nice bite.
**
Jul 02, 2016
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

3.83/5  rDev -2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Almost orange color and an inch of head on a really hoppy beer, good job. Aroma was dropping the hops, sturdy, c school hops.

Taste, plenty bitter forward. Dry malt bill, not a lot of thickness and weight to it. The beer is decent, the price is astronomical. Better options at half the price, won't be revisiting this one again.
Dec 21, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by Stum-pub from Connecticut

Sep 21, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by MSandahl23 from Indiana

Jul 27, 2015
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Reviewed by Cyberkedi from Georgia

4.17/5  rDev +6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Review is from 2012.
Strong, hoppy aroma has a firm fruity note, mainly citrus but with some pear and apple. Pours a slightly hazy coppery brown with a fairly thick and fine-bubbled buff head. Strongly hoppy flavor has woody, sour citrus and evergreen notes with a hint of caramel. Smooth, firm texture has a decent amount of fizz, and finish is quite hoppy and has both bitter and sweet undertones. Let this one invade your mouth!
Feb 16, 2015
 
Rated: 3.75 by osuskin from Indiana

Dec 15, 2014
 
Rated: 4.75 by GeoChase90 from California

Dec 09, 2014
 
Rated: 4 by delgotit99 from Indiana

Dec 02, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by olradetbalder from Sweden

Nov 25, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by akang from California

Nov 25, 2014
Invasion IPA from Mikkeller ApS
Beer rating: 88 out of 100 with 151 ratings