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Chinook Single Hop IPA
Mikkeller ApS
- From:
- Mikkeller ApS
- Denmark
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.9%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.87 | pDev: 9.3%
- Reviews:
- 75
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 20, 2019
- Added:
- Mar 16, 2010
- Wants:
- 3
- Gots:
- 6
No description / notes.
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Ratings by dgilks:
Reviewed by dgilks from Australia
3.01/5 rDev -22.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
3.01/5 rDev -22.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Muted hop aroma with a few notes of grapefruit. Actually very dull and disappointing.
Fair clarity. Amber colour with a small, khaki coloured head.
Again the hop character is a little muted. There is plenty of bitterness and a good firm but laid back malt backbone. The little hop flavour that there is is slightly citrussy and a bit piney.
Medium-light body with moderate carbonation.
Unfortunately, this beer is lacking the hop character that it needs. Perhaps it is a little old (but it only just came into the country).
Jun 02, 2010Fair clarity. Amber colour with a small, khaki coloured head.
Again the hop character is a little muted. There is plenty of bitterness and a good firm but laid back malt backbone. The little hop flavour that there is is slightly citrussy and a bit piney.
Medium-light body with moderate carbonation.
Unfortunately, this beer is lacking the hop character that it needs. Perhaps it is a little old (but it only just came into the country).
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.93/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.93/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
330ml bottle. Haven't had one of these single-hop dealios from Mikkeller in a while, though it is admittedly hard to keep track of them, oh, wait, right.
This beer pours a glassy, medium copper amber hue, with three fingers of puffy, tightly foamy, and eventually a tad creamy tan head, which leaves some stellar webbed lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of crackery caramel malt, butterscotch, pine resin, bitter orange rind, a muddled berry fruitiness, and further floral, mildly perfumed hops. The taste is bready caramel malt, toasty toffee, pleasant citrus flesh notes, lesser piney, leafy wet forest astringencies, more semi-sweet dark berries, and herbal, leafy, and floral hops.
The carbonation is quite subtle and enjoyably frothy, the body a sturdy medium weight, and plainly smooth, the alcohol inching in, bit by bit. It finishes well off-dry, the various caramel malt incarnations doing well to persist, alongside the more fruity, rather than bitter, side of the Chinook hop varietal.
Another decently rendered single-hop affair, where the hop in question seems more than capable of carrying the day, and the beer as a whole. Citrusy, and with enough flora backup singers to effect the sense of complexity that I'm grokking here. Good stuff - I guess my takeaway here is that I like Chinook hops!
Jul 31, 2014This beer pours a glassy, medium copper amber hue, with three fingers of puffy, tightly foamy, and eventually a tad creamy tan head, which leaves some stellar webbed lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of crackery caramel malt, butterscotch, pine resin, bitter orange rind, a muddled berry fruitiness, and further floral, mildly perfumed hops. The taste is bready caramel malt, toasty toffee, pleasant citrus flesh notes, lesser piney, leafy wet forest astringencies, more semi-sweet dark berries, and herbal, leafy, and floral hops.
The carbonation is quite subtle and enjoyably frothy, the body a sturdy medium weight, and plainly smooth, the alcohol inching in, bit by bit. It finishes well off-dry, the various caramel malt incarnations doing well to persist, alongside the more fruity, rather than bitter, side of the Chinook hop varietal.
Another decently rendered single-hop affair, where the hop in question seems more than capable of carrying the day, and the beer as a whole. Citrusy, and with enough flora backup singers to effect the sense of complexity that I'm grokking here. Good stuff - I guess my takeaway here is that I like Chinook hops!
Chinook Single Hop IPA from Mikkeller ApS
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
107 ratings
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