Dabbler In Murk
Mikkeller ApS

 

 

Light orange juice appearance. I don't review much anymore but I have to say, this is THE perfect summer beer. It's light, it's juicy, and it's delicious. Not overly flavorful, but for my intentions, it's perfect. This beer is the beer nerd's Bud Light. I could knock down 1/2 a case of this on a hot night spent out in the garage. Orange peel, light citrus, lime, mango. Damn.

 

 

 

 

 

Pours a murky orange, Head is white, compact and soft.

Smell is a bit dank, with notes of mango, pineapple and citrus.

Taste is very tropical, mainly mango and guava, with hints of orange. Slight bit of licorice, before a surprisingly dry finish.

Body is fairly thin, with good carbonation.

One of the thinner NE style IPAs I've had, and I think it was meant to be. Very drinkable and tropical.

 

Appearance - Pours hazy orange color with thick white soapy head. Spotty lacing all around the glass.

Aroma - Very faint citrus orange and grapefruit ripe peach and mango.Hints of hops slightly dank with a touch of malts.

Taste - Nice tropical juiciness mango, pineapple and orange. It s not as bitter as expected, nice hop bite on the finish.

Feel - Medium bodied well carbonated, smooth creamy finish.

Overall - Another very well done beer, great flavors and very smooth drinking.

One pint can poured into a snifter.

It comes with hazy deep yellow color for the style topping up with a relatively thin white foamy head that dissipates and leaves some sticky lacing patch and spot on the glass-side.

So juicy and fruity in the aroma, it is obviously tropical with the wide varieties of intense citrus, lime, peach, ripe mango, melon, passion fruit, and pineapple. Malt helps to make it much creamy smooth and sweet together with some bread and biscuit.

It starts off with its bold juicy and fruity sweetness of tropical, citrus, lime, peach, ripe mango, melon, passion fruit, and pineapple like aforementioned in the aroma. Malt is in the supporting providing its sweet biscuit and bread while hop bitterness is quite subtle and you can taste its kick only at the almost end before the juiciness and fruitiness taking over the palate again.

Medium body with quite smooth mouthfeel and good lively crisp carbonation, the feeling is so refreshing with a typical dry finish.

Citra is always ones of my most favorite hops. Here it teams up with Mandarina to create a very rich and juicy mellowness that is well suit to the style. Very good NE IPA.

 

16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 5/5/2017. Pours very hazy golden orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger dense and rocky off white head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lasts. Nice dense soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of big tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, mango, melon, lemon zest, orange peel, light pepper/pine, wheat, cracker, biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of citrus/fruity/tropical hops and bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, mango, melon, lemon zest, orange peel, light pepper/pine, wheat, cracker, biscuit, herbal, and floral/grassy earthiness. Light pine/grassy/citrus peel bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, mango, melon, lemon/orange peel, light pepper/pine, wheat, cracker, biscuit, and herbal/floral/grassy earthiness on the finish for a while. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical hops and bready malt flavors; with an awesome malt/bitterness balance, and zero lingering hop astringency after the finish. Slight dryness from lingering bitterness, lightly increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, fairly sticky, and slightly resinous balanced mouthfeel that is awesome. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.8%. Overall this is an outstanding NE IPA. All around awesome complexity, robustness, and balance of citrus/fruity/tropical hops and bready malt flavors; very smooth and easy to drink, with the mildly bitter/drying finish. Very vibrant, juicy, and lightly dank on hops; great malt balance that is never sweet or heavy feeling. A highly enjoyable offering.

A: Pours a murky deep golden yellow in color with moderate amounts of active visible carbonation rising along the edges of the glass and moderate burnt orange colored highlights. The beer has a two finger tall sudsy foamy beige head that slowly reduces to a medium sized patch of medium thick film surrounded by a large patch of thin film covering the remainder of the surface of the beer with a medium thick ring at the edges of the glass. Moderate to significant amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Slightly stronger than moderate aromas of citrus/grapefruit, citrus/orange zest, and slightly dank resinous hops over the top of light aromas of cracker + biscuit malts.

T: Upfront there is a light to moderate flavor of cracker + biscuit malts with a light amount of grainy sweetness. That is followed by slightly stronger than moderate flavors of citrus/grapefruit, citrus/orange zest, and slightly dank resinous hops which impart a hint of bitterness which fades away almost instantly leaving those citrus fruit flavors lingering.

M: Light bodied with moderate amounts of carbonation. Initially crisp with a smooth finish.

O: Easy to drink, enjoyable, and refreshing with a really nice hop flavor + aroma with minimal amounts of bitterness.

 

 

Can dated 5/05/17 Poured into a large tulip! The look is like some world class IPAs ive had: hazy/murky orangish-yellow with a inch soapy white head that fades, also some spotted lacing when consumed. The smell is light cracker malts, mixed with citrus, pine, slight dank! The taste is citrus fruits then some pine followed by light malt backbone. The feel is smooth with zero bitterness. I dig this IPA and I will seek other of their offerings! Cheers