Mad Pineapple Apple
Mikkeller ApS
- From:
- Mikkeller ApS
- Denmark
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- 79
- Avg:
- 3.14 | pDev: 16.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 25, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 12, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
79
Okay
79
Okay
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Rated by Tita from South Korea
1.63/5 rDev -48.1%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 1.5
1.63/5 rDev -48.1%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.25 | overall: 1.5
Wattery and confused. HArd to get any flavour. It has grassy and herby aroma in hazy orange color. But its taste is rather empty.
Feb 25, 2016Rated by Seoulcraft from South Korea
3/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
Unique beer from Mikkeller, and well worth trying - though it might be too weird for the casual drinker. I haven't had anything quite like it
Feb 24, 2016
Reviewed by chupachups01 from South Korea
3.4/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
3.4/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
A very unique beer. You can definitely feel some herb and spice, almost cinnamon like flavors. Head retention is a little weak. Overall a easy drinking pilsner.
Feb 24, 2016
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.56/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Bottle purchased in Zagreb, Croatia, and served cold into a pilsner glass. 4.70% ABV. Brief impressions below:
HEAD: Occupies ~60% of the glass. Off-white colour. Lasts a long time - ~8+ minutes. Leaves light consistent lacing as it recedes.
BODY: Clear yellow-copper of average vibrance. No yeast is visible.
Looks overcarbonated. Appearance is generic.
AROMA: Floral hop notes, pilsner malts, guava, faintly crackery malts, grassy hops, herbal yeast. I find no pineapple, nor any apple.
Of average strength.
TASTE: Pleasant guava and soft fruits, with a restrained almost imperceptible yeast character and downplayed fruity hops. Malt backbone is neutral, letting the soft fruits and chamomile tea flavours take over. It does veer into overly bitter territory in the third act - a blip of the otherwise well hidden hop bitterness punching through. I struggle to find any marzipan, but there's definite confectionery in the flavour profile.
TEXTURE: Near perfect. Creamy, soft, refreshing, smooth, and wet. Aptly light to medium-bodied.
OVERALL: An artful, unique beer from Mikkeller, and well worth trying - though it might be too weird for the casual drinker. I haven't had anything quite like it, and I'd go so far as to call it yogurty. The guava notes are quite interesting, and it's a highly drinkable beer. Definitely a brew I'd revisit, if only to review in more detail. More good work from Mikkeller.
Low B (3.56)
Aug 31, 2015HEAD: Occupies ~60% of the glass. Off-white colour. Lasts a long time - ~8+ minutes. Leaves light consistent lacing as it recedes.
BODY: Clear yellow-copper of average vibrance. No yeast is visible.
Looks overcarbonated. Appearance is generic.
AROMA: Floral hop notes, pilsner malts, guava, faintly crackery malts, grassy hops, herbal yeast. I find no pineapple, nor any apple.
Of average strength.
TASTE: Pleasant guava and soft fruits, with a restrained almost imperceptible yeast character and downplayed fruity hops. Malt backbone is neutral, letting the soft fruits and chamomile tea flavours take over. It does veer into overly bitter territory in the third act - a blip of the otherwise well hidden hop bitterness punching through. I struggle to find any marzipan, but there's definite confectionery in the flavour profile.
TEXTURE: Near perfect. Creamy, soft, refreshing, smooth, and wet. Aptly light to medium-bodied.
OVERALL: An artful, unique beer from Mikkeller, and well worth trying - though it might be too weird for the casual drinker. I haven't had anything quite like it, and I'd go so far as to call it yogurty. The guava notes are quite interesting, and it's a highly drinkable beer. Definitely a brew I'd revisit, if only to review in more detail. More good work from Mikkeller.
Low B (3.56)
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.69/5 rDev +17.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.69/5 rDev +17.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
330ml bottle. Yet another confusing as shit offering from MAD, a joint between Mikkeller and chef Alex Atala - pineapple, apple, and chamomile the indeterminately specified players.
This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow hue, with three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and somewhat rocky ecru head, which leaves a bit of randomly spackled lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of musty, phenolic florals, like having a gone to seed dandelion smushed in your face, edgy yeast, bready, crackery pale malt, weirdly acrid tea (so, Chamomile, then), and a further herbal grassiness. The taste is sharply crackery pale malt, muddled floral pistil esters, still astringent yeast, overripe apple, pineapple cores (ah, so now I see), white pepper, green tea, and that same grassy, spicy, and herbal character from the nose.
The carbonation is quite active and challenging in its frothiness, the body a sturdy medium weight, and a bit too acerbic to be deemed all that smooth. It finishes generally dry, the underlying Pilsner malt straining to be noticed, as well it should - the floral interloper can't be having all the fun now, can it?
A nice bit of subterfuge, at least to fool those of us who have eschewed chamomile tea since first contact many years ago - I sure as hell don't recall it tasting like this - herbal, variously fruity, and certainly floral, in a headily musty manner. Oh, wait, I just described this beer all over again - oh well.
Nov 13, 2014This beer pours a hazy, medium golden yellow hue, with three fingers of puffy, densely foamy, and somewhat rocky ecru head, which leaves a bit of randomly spackled lace around the glass as it slowly recedes.
It smells of musty, phenolic florals, like having a gone to seed dandelion smushed in your face, edgy yeast, bready, crackery pale malt, weirdly acrid tea (so, Chamomile, then), and a further herbal grassiness. The taste is sharply crackery pale malt, muddled floral pistil esters, still astringent yeast, overripe apple, pineapple cores (ah, so now I see), white pepper, green tea, and that same grassy, spicy, and herbal character from the nose.
The carbonation is quite active and challenging in its frothiness, the body a sturdy medium weight, and a bit too acerbic to be deemed all that smooth. It finishes generally dry, the underlying Pilsner malt straining to be noticed, as well it should - the floral interloper can't be having all the fun now, can it?
A nice bit of subterfuge, at least to fool those of us who have eschewed chamomile tea since first contact many years ago - I sure as hell don't recall it tasting like this - herbal, variously fruity, and certainly floral, in a headily musty manner. Oh, wait, I just described this beer all over again - oh well.
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