Prunus & Pithos
Mikkeller ApS

Poured from a 750 ml cook bottle into a tulip glass with a Best Before July 2026
Appearance – The beer pours a hazed orange color with a light red tint and having a small fizzy head of white foam. The head fades rather quickly, leaving a light level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is tart and sour with lots of apple cider vinegar and a big presence of lemon. Along with these smells comes notes of cracker and wild yeast and bacteria funk, along with some sour white grapes and some notes of plum and apple.
Taste – the taste follows the nose rather well with a big sour and tart apple cider vinegar flavor paired with a rather strong presence of sour white grapes and sour plum. At the same time there is a decent showing of lemon and lime, mixed with a very light cracker malt base. As the taste advances it sours even more, all while some light yeast and hay join in. At the end notes of a sour passionfruit and tangerine join in, leaving one with a rather sour and tart taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body is average to a bit thin with a carbonation level that is on the lower side.
Overall – A rather nice, quite tart and sour wild brew that, while intense, is very easy to drink. Rather nice overall.

super special bottle here from the baghaven location, blend 1 from 2021 i think, courtesy of my brother who picked it up in europe, the best kind of christmas present to be sure! this is a weird one, amazing, but weird, wild ale with plums and two apparently german white grape varietals i had never heard of before this, helios and phoenix, the latter of which was aged in amphora, super cool, the whole beer is long aged in oak, and it ends up being a remarkable original complexion, somewhat rustic and unrefined, even heavy a little bit for what it is, but the flavors are wonderful and this really is something entirely new to my palate, which is why i fell in love with mikkeller in the first place all those many years ago now. gorgeous packaging on this, a little less sexy of a pour, just faintly pink tinted and really hazy straw colored overall, a bit of white head rises and falls, more and more sediment comes in the further down we pour, right to the point of almost looking messy, despite ample carbonation. the nose on this is cool, quite sour but wild too, red wine vinegar, old funk, lots of wood and wine, sharp but not quite acetic, some tannic pucker and grittiness from the grapes, a wet clay sort of minerality, at least in part i assume from the amphora, which is a neat element of this, lots of raw wheat to me, could be turbid mashed like lambic, i am missing the aged hops part of that, but the grain side for sure hits like that, tangy berry character in the plum part, subtle sweetness from the grapes before tighter less ripe vibes, concrete, lemon, and even like yellow gatorade powder from the old days. the flavor is unique with the fruits together, plums with the white grapes almost make a red wine taste, at least rose, the plums have a sort of skin contact thing to them, tannic yes, a little sweet for a second, really a nice compliment to the white grapes, and the beer overall is quite woody but the amphora element is cool, more than minerality, it almost adds a wild element of its own to me, natural wine character anyway, lots of wheat to this, some unmalted i think, and a lot of body with it, filling and chewy to an extent. the sourness ramps up towards the end, cuts a lot of the heft, and still carries the fruit through the finish. bretty and musty and weird, but also just delicious, love the grapes and plums together, like the ferment a lot, although im sure its gotten more sour in the years its spent in the bottle, but its aged pretty well overall. these baghaven bottles are increasingly rare, so this was an extra special treat!