Mad3 S'mak Beer
Mikkeller ApS
- From:
- Mikkeller ApS
- Denmark
- Style:
- English Porter
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 0.5%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 15, 2014
- Added:
- Nov 19, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.95/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.95/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
330ml bottle. Apparently this is a porter (style unspecified, so I'm taking a wild stab), flavoured with wild sumac, for an open-air farmers market in Lebanon called Souk El Tayeb - sounds like Amazing Race stuff to me.
This beer pours a solid black, with subtle basal cola highlights, and four fingers of puffy, rocky, bubbly, and creamy beige head, which leaves some stellar creepy woodland lace around the glass as things evenly subside.
It smells of well-roasted bready caramel malt, bitter ground coffee, dry cocoa, an herbal acidity that I suppose is the purported lemon-esque character of the sumac spice, chalky black licorice, and musty earthy, weedy hops. The taste is bittersweet dark milk chocolate, gritty dry coffee beans, lactic acid, mirror-world acerbic lemon notes - more herbal and less fruity than what we know - mild Nordic licorice, and wet earthy, leafy hops.
The carbonation is quite frothy and playful, with no real burn at all, the body fairly far on the lee side of medium weight, and plainly smooth, nothing really to write home about here. It finishes mostly dry, the cocoa, coffee, acidic milk and sumac essences really running the show.
A decent porter, the multifaceted sourness, and low-key hops driving this straight into English territory, sprinkled with a dose of the empire that once was. Sumac is not something I am readily familiar with, other than Sumac Ridge in BC, and their kick-ass winery, where I once learned that sumac is poisonous. Huh.
Nov 19, 2013This beer pours a solid black, with subtle basal cola highlights, and four fingers of puffy, rocky, bubbly, and creamy beige head, which leaves some stellar creepy woodland lace around the glass as things evenly subside.
It smells of well-roasted bready caramel malt, bitter ground coffee, dry cocoa, an herbal acidity that I suppose is the purported lemon-esque character of the sumac spice, chalky black licorice, and musty earthy, weedy hops. The taste is bittersweet dark milk chocolate, gritty dry coffee beans, lactic acid, mirror-world acerbic lemon notes - more herbal and less fruity than what we know - mild Nordic licorice, and wet earthy, leafy hops.
The carbonation is quite frothy and playful, with no real burn at all, the body fairly far on the lee side of medium weight, and plainly smooth, nothing really to write home about here. It finishes mostly dry, the cocoa, coffee, acidic milk and sumac essences really running the show.
A decent porter, the multifaceted sourness, and low-key hops driving this straight into English territory, sprinkled with a dose of the empire that once was. Sumac is not something I am readily familiar with, other than Sumac Ridge in BC, and their kick-ass winery, where I once learned that sumac is poisonous. Huh.
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