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Carton Of Haze
Mikkeller ApS
- From:
- Mikkeller ApS
- Denmark
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 91
- Avg:
- 4.16 | pDev: 7.93%
- Reviews:
- 5
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 05, 2017
- Added:
- Apr 24, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 4
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by JamFuel from Sweden
4.43/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
4.43/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Pours a hazy light orange, with fluffy, white foam.
The smell is juicy and slightly tart, with mango, pineapple and a hint of vanilla.
The taste starts very juicy, with tons of mango. This is followed by somy pine, just a hint of booze and a slightly sweet finish.
Mouthfeel is soft and creamy, good carbonation.
A terrific hazy double IPA, lots of flavor, and easy on the eyes.
May 28, 2017The smell is juicy and slightly tart, with mango, pineapple and a hint of vanilla.
The taste starts very juicy, with tons of mango. This is followed by somy pine, just a hint of booze and a slightly sweet finish.
Mouthfeel is soft and creamy, good carbonation.
A terrific hazy double IPA, lots of flavor, and easy on the eyes.
Reviewed by Ciocanelu from Romania
4.2/5 rDev +1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.2/5 rDev +1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Really hazy golden color with off-white head. Aroma is citrusy, yeasty, also a bit boozy. Taste starts juicy and hoppy but gets a bit grainy and boozy. Medium body, soft carbonation. Overall it's quite nice and juicy but a bit boozy.
May 24, 2017Reviewed by fmccormi from California
4.28/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.28/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Straight pour from a 16oz can to an oversized wineglass (Jester King stemware). This has a canning date of April 18, 2017 printed in black ink on the underside of the can (“THE MILKMANS KID 04/18/2017”), which would make this beer just under five weeks old at the time of consumption. I’m willing to give it a shot. This has been refrigerated several days prior to drinking, and rolled gently as per the suggestion of Grimm.
Appearance (4.25): This pours out nearly three fingers of custard-colored foam, turning slowly into a heavily pocked cap characterized a ring of faster-dissipating, finer bubbles around the edge of the glass, leaving a wide band of leggy, chunky lace with peaks and valleys all around the glass. It caps an opaque, light orange-tan body. Sure meets expectations of the NE-style of (D)IPA. The body is what it is (which I don’t mind), but the head is gorgeous regardless.
Smell (4.25): Fresh aromas of passionfruit mixed with kumquat skin, tangelo flesh, and navel orange juice. It also offers some champagne mango flesh, and earthy, musky aromas that blur the boundary between the more raw, weird, unfiltered side of the hops in here and a fairly sturdy grain bill. This certainly smells like a juice bomb.
Taste (4.25): Yup, they bombarded this with hops, without a doubt. Right out of the gate, it’s mostly juicy and extremely soft with a sense of orange blossom, some mango juice, and then a weird, papaya-esque musk hanging out underneath. It’s quickly followed by a half floral, half grapefruit pith bitterness that becomes brighter and brighter until it turns into a piercing, slightly vegetal, intensely citric bitterness that weirdly seems married to the earthy, yeasty, grainy body underneath it. That body gives the impression of dried, whole grains like steel cut oats, wheat berries, and kasha, mixed with baking soda biscuits, rye bread croutons, and the kind of musky, musty character of yeast sediment. I get the feeling that this is not only fermented in the Northeast style, but also unfiltered and unpasteurized. That flashy bitterness comes through to the finish, turning more grassy than citric, and blending into a subtle fusel flavor, pulling off that difficult to nail trick of blurring hops and booze in more aggressive (D)IPAs. It does leave a nice, lime zest-like impression in the finish, though.
Mouthfeel (4.5): Remarkably smooth and juicy, no doubt aided by the lactose. The body is medium-full in weight and heft, buoyed by an extremely fine carbonation that spreads across the palate evenly before resolving into a very fine-pointed tingle. The hop oils manage to avoid coming off as too harsh, again likely thanks to the lactose. I have to say, this is incredibly drinkable for a very, very hoppy (D)IPA. This drinks big, but that’s fine by me.
Overall (4.25): This is an interesting beer. Everyone likes Citra, it seems, but I’ve come to find that I’m a big fan of Mandarina Bavaria hops, and in the nose in particular this beer really does a good job at showcasing them. In terms of flavor and drinkability, it’s a big, full-bodied beer, but it does work over all. I think they might have leaned into the unfilteredness a bit too much, but they did do a good job with the NE-style of (D)IPA. This was a bit pricey for the product, but it’s proof that they’re capable of doing this substyle well, and it will definitely scratch your itch if that’s what you’re looking for.
May 23, 2017Appearance (4.25): This pours out nearly three fingers of custard-colored foam, turning slowly into a heavily pocked cap characterized a ring of faster-dissipating, finer bubbles around the edge of the glass, leaving a wide band of leggy, chunky lace with peaks and valleys all around the glass. It caps an opaque, light orange-tan body. Sure meets expectations of the NE-style of (D)IPA. The body is what it is (which I don’t mind), but the head is gorgeous regardless.
Smell (4.25): Fresh aromas of passionfruit mixed with kumquat skin, tangelo flesh, and navel orange juice. It also offers some champagne mango flesh, and earthy, musky aromas that blur the boundary between the more raw, weird, unfiltered side of the hops in here and a fairly sturdy grain bill. This certainly smells like a juice bomb.
Taste (4.25): Yup, they bombarded this with hops, without a doubt. Right out of the gate, it’s mostly juicy and extremely soft with a sense of orange blossom, some mango juice, and then a weird, papaya-esque musk hanging out underneath. It’s quickly followed by a half floral, half grapefruit pith bitterness that becomes brighter and brighter until it turns into a piercing, slightly vegetal, intensely citric bitterness that weirdly seems married to the earthy, yeasty, grainy body underneath it. That body gives the impression of dried, whole grains like steel cut oats, wheat berries, and kasha, mixed with baking soda biscuits, rye bread croutons, and the kind of musky, musty character of yeast sediment. I get the feeling that this is not only fermented in the Northeast style, but also unfiltered and unpasteurized. That flashy bitterness comes through to the finish, turning more grassy than citric, and blending into a subtle fusel flavor, pulling off that difficult to nail trick of blurring hops and booze in more aggressive (D)IPAs. It does leave a nice, lime zest-like impression in the finish, though.
Mouthfeel (4.5): Remarkably smooth and juicy, no doubt aided by the lactose. The body is medium-full in weight and heft, buoyed by an extremely fine carbonation that spreads across the palate evenly before resolving into a very fine-pointed tingle. The hop oils manage to avoid coming off as too harsh, again likely thanks to the lactose. I have to say, this is incredibly drinkable for a very, very hoppy (D)IPA. This drinks big, but that’s fine by me.
Overall (4.25): This is an interesting beer. Everyone likes Citra, it seems, but I’ve come to find that I’m a big fan of Mandarina Bavaria hops, and in the nose in particular this beer really does a good job at showcasing them. In terms of flavor and drinkability, it’s a big, full-bodied beer, but it does work over all. I think they might have leaned into the unfilteredness a bit too much, but they did do a good job with the NE-style of (D)IPA. This was a bit pricey for the product, but it’s proof that they’re capable of doing this substyle well, and it will definitely scratch your itch if that’s what you’re looking for.
Carton Of Haze from Mikkeller ApS
Beer rating:
91 out of
100 with
26 ratings
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