Scent On The Air
Mikkeller ApS
- From:
- Mikkeller ApS
- Denmark
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.6%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.61 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 22, 2016
- Added:
- Jul 29, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Pale Ale Brewed in collaboration with Faurschou Foundation and Liu Xiaodong
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.61/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.61/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
330ml bottle - 'Scent on the Air' must be the name of some sort of art installation, or something.
This beer pours a hazy, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming (sigh) tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some random splatters of sudsy lace around the glass as it very lazily recedes (spoon alert!).
It smells of musty orange rind, grainy and gently toasted pale malt, earthy yeast, green grapes, further indistinct citrus notes, and a minor leafy, herbal, and grassy green hop bitterness. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, muddled citrus (ok, plain orange and lemon), a thankfully ethereal yeastiness, more almost white must-like grapey esters, and some still understated herbal, floral, and wet grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly restrained in its perfunctory frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and sort of smooth, as both the yeast and the verdant hops seem uncaring in their effect here. It finishes off-dry, the base malt and inherent citrus and vinous fruitiness carrying the day.
Overall, this is not a bad APA, the hops being brought and all, however, that house yeast just gets in my craw, and sticks there, which makes for a less than clean pale ale experience. Good to try, I suppose, what with the session-worthy ABV, and the perhaps worth investigating collaborative tie-in.
Sep 22, 2016This beer pours a hazy, medium copper amber colour, with a teeming (sigh) tower of puffy, loosely foamy, and chunky off-white head, which leaves some random splatters of sudsy lace around the glass as it very lazily recedes (spoon alert!).
It smells of musty orange rind, grainy and gently toasted pale malt, earthy yeast, green grapes, further indistinct citrus notes, and a minor leafy, herbal, and grassy green hop bitterness. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, muddled citrus (ok, plain orange and lemon), a thankfully ethereal yeastiness, more almost white must-like grapey esters, and some still understated herbal, floral, and wet grassy hoppiness.
The carbonation is fairly restrained in its perfunctory frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and sort of smooth, as both the yeast and the verdant hops seem uncaring in their effect here. It finishes off-dry, the base malt and inherent citrus and vinous fruitiness carrying the day.
Overall, this is not a bad APA, the hops being brought and all, however, that house yeast just gets in my craw, and sticks there, which makes for a less than clean pale ale experience. Good to try, I suppose, what with the session-worthy ABV, and the perhaps worth investigating collaborative tie-in.
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