Det Frie Gymnasium
Mikkeller ApS
- From:
- Mikkeller ApS
- Denmark
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.49 | pDev: 6.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 17, 2014
- Added:
- Oct 26, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.73/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.73/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
750ml bottle, brewed in conjunction with a sort of 'science' class at the Danish 'Free High School' where Mikkel used to be a teacher, and where he apparently used the school as his de facto home brew facility.
This beer pours a clear, medium-dark bronzed amber hue, with three flabby fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent bonsai tree forest lace around the glass as it slowly melts away.
It smells of dank leafy and piney hops up front, followed closely by pithy orange and grapefruit, earthy yeast, gritty, bready pale malt, a chalky flintiness, and a further herbal, weedy, and musty bitterness. The taste is grainy, mildly crackery caramel malt, a now well-blended herbal, grassy, leafy, and faintly piney hop acerbity, with the citrus abetters gone to ground, and the musty character attached to the hovering yeast.
The bubbles are fairly involved, and indulgent in their frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing really helping or hindering its prospects here. It finishes just off-dry, the grainy caramel and pale maltiness parrying the lingering multipronged hop force well enough.
A pleasant American-style pale ale, the hops used judiciously, and the niggling yeast notes emblematic of the source brewer once again. Whatever, it's tasty, and easy to drink, sure, but not at this particular shelf tag, and especially not at this plain-Jane ABV. Cool story about the school, though.
Oct 26, 2014This beer pours a clear, medium-dark bronzed amber hue, with three flabby fingers of puffy, rocky, and bubbly beige head, which leaves some decent bonsai tree forest lace around the glass as it slowly melts away.
It smells of dank leafy and piney hops up front, followed closely by pithy orange and grapefruit, earthy yeast, gritty, bready pale malt, a chalky flintiness, and a further herbal, weedy, and musty bitterness. The taste is grainy, mildly crackery caramel malt, a now well-blended herbal, grassy, leafy, and faintly piney hop acerbity, with the citrus abetters gone to ground, and the musty character attached to the hovering yeast.
The bubbles are fairly involved, and indulgent in their frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing really helping or hindering its prospects here. It finishes just off-dry, the grainy caramel and pale maltiness parrying the lingering multipronged hop force well enough.
A pleasant American-style pale ale, the hops used judiciously, and the niggling yeast notes emblematic of the source brewer once again. Whatever, it's tasty, and easy to drink, sure, but not at this particular shelf tag, and especially not at this plain-Jane ABV. Cool story about the school, though.
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