Den Plettede Gris
Mikkeller ApS
- From:
- Mikkeller ApS
- Denmark
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.59 | pDev: 5.85%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 10, 2017
- Added:
- Jul 22, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Folk Pale Ale artwork by Vibskov
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Bombelsky from Poland
3.79/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.79/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
330 ml bottle poured into a snifter. Cloudy yellow. Frothy, off white and 1 finger tall head. Slowly diminishing but leaving a nice crown until end. Upfront there are some berries, indeed some elderberries (or it is just a suggestion of a label), raspberry, lemon, some light malts, some diacetyl. Some floral hops. Light dry flavor. Well balanced. Some umami notes. Salty. Very smooth, light bodied and creamy. Dry finish and bit of spiciness.
Interesting. I would certainly try it out with some good food. Maybe some BBQ?
Feb 10, 2017Interesting. I would certainly try it out with some good food. Maybe some BBQ?
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev -0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
330ml bottle, an elderflower-flavoured brew for the Den Plettede Gris ('The Spotted Pig') cafe in Copenhagen. Also subtitled 'Shark Pig Beer', for some reason.
This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three fat fingers of puffy, chunky, and fizzy off-white head, which leaves some sprouting sudsy tendril lace around the glass as things slowly subside.
It smells of dank pine resin, underripe banana, uric acid, gritty and doughy pale malt, a muddled estery floral thing, my kid's apple juice that's been left out on the table all day, and some middling yeastiness. The taste is soapy florals, lightly grainy pale malt, mixed fruits (banana, red berries, and lemon, mostly), dead yeast, a now fading free-range cat urine-adjacent dankness, and some tame earthy, leafy, and grassy hop bitters.
The bubbles are adequate in their basically supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, just a bit of yeasty and dank astringency tugging at the metaphorical corners. It finishes off-dry, the base malt keeping it real, while the floral and other sundry essences retreat back into the holes from whence they came.
Overall, a strange, and hard to really get into brew, with the elderflowers not exactly showing their best side, i.e. the dank, edgy form (likely aided and abetted by the particular yeast here - it is De Proef, after all). Forgettable, unless, of course, I was kickin' it in the Euro-spiffy cafe of titular reference - maybe.
Sep 08, 2016This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with three fat fingers of puffy, chunky, and fizzy off-white head, which leaves some sprouting sudsy tendril lace around the glass as things slowly subside.
It smells of dank pine resin, underripe banana, uric acid, gritty and doughy pale malt, a muddled estery floral thing, my kid's apple juice that's been left out on the table all day, and some middling yeastiness. The taste is soapy florals, lightly grainy pale malt, mixed fruits (banana, red berries, and lemon, mostly), dead yeast, a now fading free-range cat urine-adjacent dankness, and some tame earthy, leafy, and grassy hop bitters.
The bubbles are adequate in their basically supportive frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, just a bit of yeasty and dank astringency tugging at the metaphorical corners. It finishes off-dry, the base malt keeping it real, while the floral and other sundry essences retreat back into the holes from whence they came.
Overall, a strange, and hard to really get into brew, with the elderflowers not exactly showing their best side, i.e. the dank, edgy form (likely aided and abetted by the particular yeast here - it is De Proef, after all). Forgettable, unless, of course, I was kickin' it in the Euro-spiffy cafe of titular reference - maybe.
Reviewed by Ciocanelu from Romania
3.75/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Clear yellow color with with white head. Aroma has some dank hops but I don't get any elderflower. Taste is very balanced with nice hop notes and bready malts. Overall it's a nice pale ale but I don't get the elderflowers.
Oct 11, 2015
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