#Overtime
Mikkeller ApS

 

 

Go bold or go home! Mikkeller has been about the beer scene long enough to know that if you're going to bring an IPA to the bar, then it can't be a timid one. This aggressively bitter, dry, west coast option places a focus on throat gripping lupulin bite, but does so with the delicacy of fruit and a fragrant parlay into aromatics.

Brightly golden and with a faint haze, the sparkling beer brings an impressive carbonation and an arid sense of sea foam. Its resinous character carries the nose with pine, wood, leaf and acute vegetation. The brightness of grapefruit, orange peel and dried tropical fruit follow closely behind and skirt over a light caramel and granola maltiness.

The malts really don't stand a chance. Its short sweetness quickly retreats and the hops roll onto the middle palate. The dried fruit character swirls around the tastebuds with orange and grapefruit peels. Sharp and even spicy, the stemmy taste of hop vegetation applies a slight tannin bite. A mild juicy tropical flavor seems slight of pineapple and mango before trailing with teeth sweating bitterness.

Crisp, dry and off-clean, the beer's tight finish is classically thirst quenching for a throwback IPA but with a mild grassy harshness the trails into those spicy textures as well as taste. A mild taste of pepper and solvent trail into a long, bitter and resinous finish.