Mad4 Refshaleøen Sour
Mikkeller ApS
- From:
- Mikkeller ApS
- Denmark
- Style:
- Wild Ale
- ABV:
- 6.2%
- Score:
- 78
- Avg:
- 3 | pDev: 20.33%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 09, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 15, 2014
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 5
SCORE
78
Okay
78
Okay
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Rated by Tita from South Korea
2/5 rDev -33.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2/5 rDev -33.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Berry, yogurt armoa. Nice haazy woody color. Blackberry-like sweet and sour beer.
Feb 25, 2016
Reviewed by chupachups01 from South Korea
2.63/5 rDev -12.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
2.63/5 rDev -12.3%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
Hazy, almost (maybe because of the bottle) purple. Lacks a dominate aroma. Weak flavor, more on the watery side. Slightly sour. Would recommend for first time sour drinkers.
Feb 24, 2016
Reviewed by kitch from Hong Kong
2.62/5 rDev -12.7%
look: 1 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
2.62/5 rDev -12.7%
look: 1 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 1.5
A 330ml bottle with a best before date of 7th February 2016, poured into a Duvel tulip glass.
Appearance: It poured a rather unappealing murky light mud brown colour. Looks like a cloudy thick apple juice. There was a one finger frothy and thick off white head that settles down to a thin but puffy layer with some thick sticky lacing.
Aroma: Somewhat sour funkiness with a fruity element leaning towards apple juice and cider. There is also an acidic vinegary touch.
Taste: Tart and sour at the beginning but there is no distinct lasting flavour but some bitterness. Its like as soon you get the sourness, something just cancels out all taste and its weird. Hint of vinegar, blueberry and apple, but at the same time, not really.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with mid to high carbonation.
Overall: Sour beers are good, but this was just a mess. The aromas were fine, but its taste and especially its appearance left something to be desired. I believe this was brewed once only, and that’s probably a good thing. Definitely not going for this again.
Jan 27, 2016Appearance: It poured a rather unappealing murky light mud brown colour. Looks like a cloudy thick apple juice. There was a one finger frothy and thick off white head that settles down to a thin but puffy layer with some thick sticky lacing.
Aroma: Somewhat sour funkiness with a fruity element leaning towards apple juice and cider. There is also an acidic vinegary touch.
Taste: Tart and sour at the beginning but there is no distinct lasting flavour but some bitterness. Its like as soon you get the sourness, something just cancels out all taste and its weird. Hint of vinegar, blueberry and apple, but at the same time, not really.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with mid to high carbonation.
Overall: Sour beers are good, but this was just a mess. The aromas were fine, but its taste and especially its appearance left something to be desired. I believe this was brewed once only, and that’s probably a good thing. Definitely not going for this again.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.46/5 rDev +15.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.46/5 rDev +15.3%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
BOTTLE: Brown glass. 33cl. Unbranded pry-off crown cap. Purchased at Svijet Piva in Zagreb, Croatia. Label art is fun.
6.2% ABV. Best before 07/02/16. Brewed at De Proef.
Served cold into a pilsner glass. Expectations are high; Mikkel is perhaps my favourite brewer, and his sours have only gotten better the longer he's been in the business.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: Occupies ~90% of the glass. Off-white colour. Thicker and fuller than you'd expect a sour ale to be, with a frothy consistency and a nice complexion. Retention is excellent - ~10+ minutes, and as it recedes it leaves a perfect coating of nice even lacing on the sides of the glass.
BODY: It's a murky dull copper-brown, which no beer drinker is likely to find attractive. Nontransparent, somewhat translucent. No yeast is visible within.
Appears well, if not over carbonated. It's a decent looking sour ale at best.
AROMA: Apple cidre vinegar, earthy funkiness, Belgian pale malts, dry starchy malts (maybe wheat?), a fruity note which approximates currants, and a modest sourness (probably a 3/10 in terms of intensity). The vague indistinct fruit blends well with the sourness, but it lacks the cutting bacterial aplomb of a great spontaneously fermented beer, instead letting itself become mired in that murky earthy funkiness. I want more bacteria, more sourness, and more tart fruit.
Aromatic intensity is above average.
TASTE: Follows the aroma. Balanced, though the tartness of the fruit should be played up. It's not the bacterial crazy-sour bomb many will hope for, but it's a nice sour ale with modest 3-4/10 sourness and will please fans of the style. Depth of flavour could be played up. The fruit is the most interesting aspect, but while I can place that it's close to sea buckthorn and some kind of currant, I can't readily identify what exactly it is.
TEXTURE: Refreshing, medium-bodied, pleasingly soft. Has a subtle coarseness that brings out the dry fruit a bit. My guess is the fruit is some kind of berry, given its subtle juniper-like dryness. Well-carbonated.
OVERALL: A nicely executed sour with some very interesting fruit notes, but not a world-class offering by any means. More sourness, fruit, tartness, and puckery twang is needed to make this a truly great beer, but I can't imagine any fan of the style being disappointed with this. More worthwhile work from Mikkeller.
High B- (3.46)
Aug 31, 20156.2% ABV. Best before 07/02/16. Brewed at De Proef.
Served cold into a pilsner glass. Expectations are high; Mikkel is perhaps my favourite brewer, and his sours have only gotten better the longer he's been in the business.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: Occupies ~90% of the glass. Off-white colour. Thicker and fuller than you'd expect a sour ale to be, with a frothy consistency and a nice complexion. Retention is excellent - ~10+ minutes, and as it recedes it leaves a perfect coating of nice even lacing on the sides of the glass.
BODY: It's a murky dull copper-brown, which no beer drinker is likely to find attractive. Nontransparent, somewhat translucent. No yeast is visible within.
Appears well, if not over carbonated. It's a decent looking sour ale at best.
AROMA: Apple cidre vinegar, earthy funkiness, Belgian pale malts, dry starchy malts (maybe wheat?), a fruity note which approximates currants, and a modest sourness (probably a 3/10 in terms of intensity). The vague indistinct fruit blends well with the sourness, but it lacks the cutting bacterial aplomb of a great spontaneously fermented beer, instead letting itself become mired in that murky earthy funkiness. I want more bacteria, more sourness, and more tart fruit.
Aromatic intensity is above average.
TASTE: Follows the aroma. Balanced, though the tartness of the fruit should be played up. It's not the bacterial crazy-sour bomb many will hope for, but it's a nice sour ale with modest 3-4/10 sourness and will please fans of the style. Depth of flavour could be played up. The fruit is the most interesting aspect, but while I can place that it's close to sea buckthorn and some kind of currant, I can't readily identify what exactly it is.
TEXTURE: Refreshing, medium-bodied, pleasingly soft. Has a subtle coarseness that brings out the dry fruit a bit. My guess is the fruit is some kind of berry, given its subtle juniper-like dryness. Well-carbonated.
OVERALL: A nicely executed sour with some very interesting fruit notes, but not a world-class offering by any means. More sourness, fruit, tartness, and puckery twang is needed to make this a truly great beer, but I can't imagine any fan of the style being disappointed with this. More worthwhile work from Mikkeller.
High B- (3.46)
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.11/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.11/5 rDev +3.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
330ml bottle, another MAD4 'What is Cooking' offering, featuring chef Alex Atala, whatever that means. A sour ale, made with blackthorn - in what capacity, is not stated.
This beer pours a very murky, muddy dark orange brick colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly pink-tinged head, which leaves a thick wall of painted lace around the glass as it gently melts away.
It smells of muddled, but still rather vegetal sour black fruit, flower stems, apple cider vinegar, grainy pale malt, earthy yeast, and further perfumed floral notes. The taste is a lot less tart or sour than I was expecting - more darkly fruity in disposition, like an underripe blackberry, or something, with a middling pale grainy sweetness, pithy yeast, a bit of animal sweat acridity, and musty, weedy, I'm gonna say, 'hop' bitters.
The carbonation is pretty tame, nothin' much a-bubblin' around here, the body an average medium weight, and more or less smooth, I suppose, but also a bit clammy. It finishes on the sweet side, the candy sugar, dark fruit, yeast, and a muffled vegetal character co-existing awkwardly.
Yeah, this isn't exactly a mess, as using fruit (I'm assuming, here) as adjuncts in sour beers is hardly innovative, but it all comes off as disjointed. The lack of tartness and carbonation, with a boring fruit rendition, not to mention the thoroughly unfiltered looks, all add up to a one and done, and not very well at that.
Nov 15, 2014This beer pours a very murky, muddy dark orange brick colour, with two fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly pink-tinged head, which leaves a thick wall of painted lace around the glass as it gently melts away.
It smells of muddled, but still rather vegetal sour black fruit, flower stems, apple cider vinegar, grainy pale malt, earthy yeast, and further perfumed floral notes. The taste is a lot less tart or sour than I was expecting - more darkly fruity in disposition, like an underripe blackberry, or something, with a middling pale grainy sweetness, pithy yeast, a bit of animal sweat acridity, and musty, weedy, I'm gonna say, 'hop' bitters.
The carbonation is pretty tame, nothin' much a-bubblin' around here, the body an average medium weight, and more or less smooth, I suppose, but also a bit clammy. It finishes on the sweet side, the candy sugar, dark fruit, yeast, and a muffled vegetal character co-existing awkwardly.
Yeah, this isn't exactly a mess, as using fruit (I'm assuming, here) as adjuncts in sour beers is hardly innovative, but it all comes off as disjointed. The lack of tartness and carbonation, with a boring fruit rendition, not to mention the thoroughly unfiltered looks, all add up to a one and done, and not very well at that.
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