Lilla Regn
Mikkeller ApS

 

this beer is epic, my favorite that we had when we visited the san diego brewery i think. its just incredible beer, a wild sour aged in oak barrels for 18 months with malbec grapes, such a cool beer wine line blurring, all in our group were blown away by this one, and the pricey little bottle is definitely worth it! it pours a deep pink, violet color, with a short bubbling head with a nearly perfectly white color to it and a short life span. it smells incredible, grape jelly to me at first from the malbec, and a ton of sturdy oak, as it warms i appreciate the grape specifically, and get some blackberry, black currant, and bretty wildness. the funk is high, the acid is moderate, the tart grape skins and oak tannins are somewhere in between, and the complexity is enormous. i cant believe how much grape is on this, its so dense here, rich and earthy and natural, not yet wine-like, still fruit. there is an almost lambic funk to the base beer with all the wild and the oak, but the fruit makes it seem less mature, not that its sweet, but that it is so ripe and juicy and sort of just picked to me. malbec seems like a perfect choice of grape for this, but im sure tempranillo and cab would also be pretty unique. its beers like this that make me wonder why nobody is freaking out about mikkeller, this is some of the best fruited wild beer ive had in a long time, from anyone, and it deserves more attention. i hope to find this one again! a highlight of our california trip for sure...