De Molen / Mikkeller Mikkel & Menno Weizenbock
Mikkel and Menno is the result of a collaboration between Denmarks best brewery Mikkeller, and Hollands best brewery De Molen. This beer is a weizenbock, it has been brewed at De Molen in the Netherlands and Mikkel contributed to the recipe with a lot of American hops.
3.6
218 reviews
Bodegraven, Netherlands
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# 3112
ersma: gebraut von mikkel und dem brauer von de molen, menno. kan ja eigentlich nur was gutes bei rauskommen. vom dezember 2009. nur 992 flaschen, meine hat die nummer 618.
hell kupferfarben, leicht trübe. oben viel stabiler schaum.
der geruch ist kräuterig-säuerlich mit frucht. dazu etwas hefe.
der antrunk ist fruchtig-kräuterig mit gapefruit, beeren und auch hier etwas hefe. chinook, simcoe, cascade und amarillo, also die typische nachhopf-mischung für ein fruchtiges geschmackserlebnis. zur mitte wird es bitterer, aber nicht so sehr, wie es die 53 ibu erwarten ließen. aber das hat man bei den stark nachgehopften bieren ja oft. der abgang ist etwas süßlicher und eher verhalten. abnehmende fruchtigkeit, eher so beeren und apfel.
die flasche ist ansprechend gestaltet, grad das vordergründig sehr schlichte hat stil.
fazit: nicht unbedingt ein typischer weizenbock, was an den fruchtigen noten liegt. aber überzeugend, wenn auch zum ende etwas schwächelnd. probierenswert.
13,12,11,9,13,11 - 11,15 - 7/8/12
2nd January 2010
Cloudy chocolate coloured beer, with a biscuit coloured frothy head. Soft frothy palate. Tangy minerally hops surrounded by soft frothy malt. Not really sure about this style but the hops shine and it’s very drinkable.
Brown bottle, 330 ml, lot 02.01, number 0557, brewed on November 4 2008, bottled on December 5 2009, best before December 5 2014, via Importations Privées Bièropholie, savoured April 23 2012; eye: bronze, clear, nice effervescence, voluminous beige head made up of rather large bubbles, light lacing; nose: hops, malt, light spices, caramel; mouth: hops, malt, light spices, light ash, alcohol, caramel, slight fruity, finale in malt with light presence of ash, medium body, almost no carbonation, lightly bitter, slightly sweet, slick texture; overall: correct
FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 330 ml, lot 02.01, numéro 0557, brassée le 4 novembre 2008, embouteillée le 5 décembre 2009, meilleure avant le 5 décembre 2014, via Importations Privées Bièropholie, savourée le 23 avril 2012; œil : bronze, limpide, bonne effervescence, mousse beige volumineuse formée de bulles plutôt grosses, légère dentelle; nez : houblon, malt, léger épices, caramel; bouche : houblon, malt, léger épices, léger cendré, alcool, caramel, très léger fruité, finale en malt avec légère présence cendré, corps moyen, presque aucune carbonatation, légèrement amère, très légèrement sucrée, texture coulante; en résumé : correct
330ml bottle pours a hazy golden orange color with a finger of white head that leaves some spots of lacing on the glass. Aroma is light fruits and citrus hops. Taste is malty sweet with some fruit and a bold citrus hop bitterness in the finish. Flavors are well balanced with a medium body and light carbonation. A nicely done wheat bock which is about what I expected from this brewery.
AROMA:Big malt, some fruity hops and a touch of Belgian horse blanket.
APPEARANCE: cloudy amber brown with a huge 1" orange head
TASTE:Whammy malt with caramel, toffee. Hops bitter in the finish, try and balance huge malt and don’t quite make it.
PALATE: medium to full bodied with a creamy mouth feel.Softly carbonated. Bitter in the finish from the ton of hops trying to balance the malt
OVERALL: a monster beer for a wheat beer, i have never had one so malty. big everything like Mikkeller is famous for, and very good beer.. not really on style. Makes it’s own style. Monster wheat bock.
33cl bottle - 2009 vintage. Pours amber orange with tiny sticky beige head. Aroma is orange peel, some funky barnyard botes, grassy, bread. Taste is warm and nicely bitter. The bready notes come back. No carbonation level at all. Easy drinkable.
33 cl bottle @ Pikkulintu.
Rated on 20110729.
Murky orange colour with large head. Aroma of paste, fruits, wheat and distant banana. Flavour has berries, apricot and some banana. Palate has turned a bit cardboard-like even though the bbe is marked 30.07.2014.
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Thanks to bu11zeye for sharing this bottle.
The beer pours a dark amber color with an off-white head. The aroma is heavy on the wheat and caramel malt with some banana notes mixed in.
The flavor is more of the same. I get a lot of toffee and caramel, with some banana and spice notes mixed in. The pepper and clove notes are very nice and mix well with the other flavor components.
Medium mouthfeel and medium carbonation.
Bottled. An unclear brown beer with a huge lazing orangey head. The aroma has notes of dusty hops, caramel, wheat, and a bit of bread. The flavor is sweet with notes of caramel, alcohol, malt, wheat, and dusty hops, leading to a dry wheaty and alcoholic finish.
Bottle courtesy of HenrikSoegaard cons 2011-08-19 Göteborg
Brewed 24 June 2009, bottle 917 / 1152
AR: rich fruitness, black cherries, plume cake, hoppy caramel
AP: hazy mber/ruby red body, high organic light brown alive head
F: great bitterness, a bit peaty, metallic - coppar, a bit sour - feels that this wasen’t the intation, peppary, vinos, dryness and bitterness in the finish
Bottle @ Home, # 461.Pours hazy golden with a creamy offwhite head. Aroma of malt, yeast, vanilla, sweet fruity hops. Taste is malt, caramel, fruity hops, melon and pineapple, grapefruitlike bitterness in the finish. Medium body, soft carbonation. 140811
Dark red brown body with an off white head. Sweet aroma with vanilla, cereal and a lot of hops. Very smooth palate. Lots of caramel with an underlying bitterness. Nice and interesting.
Bottle courtesy bu11zeye. Pours a clear reddish orange color with a white foamy head. Aroma is light hops, with some sweet caramel malts. Some dry nutty notes as well. Flavor is a bit roasted, caramel notes, sunflower seeds and soft hops. Finishes slightly dry. Almost salty.
33 cl bottle @ Olutravintola Pikkulintu. #863: brewed 24.6.2009, bottled 30.7.2009. BBE 30.7.2014
Rather light aroma has some banana. Flavour has some ripe banana, alcohol, spices and harsh bitterness. Quite hoppy for this style. Dry and harsh palate. An ok weizenbock, but a bit weird for this style.
330ml bottle @ Pikkulintu, Helsinki
Pours orange with a medium head. Aroma has notes of wheat malts, hops And fruits. Taste is quite malty with notes of Hops, wheat And slightly fruits. Long lasting, slightly bitter finish. Good, quite hoppy wheat ale.
330 ml bottle @ Olutravintola Pikkulintu, Helsinki.
Po0urs a dark copper colour with a large, frothy, slightly off-white head. Aroma of sweet malts, some toffee and tropical fruits. Weak flavour of sweet malts, hops, nuts, wheat and cardboard. Smooth mouthfeel with a weak, slightly warming finish with some hops. This has clearly had it’s best days already.
Lahev , trvanlivost ještě 3 roky - Barva polotmavá, vůně po ovocích, dlouho ale nevydrží, hodně hořké , ale pitelné pivo.
Bottle from Joes, thanks very much! Hazy brown color. Smell malts and light bitterness. Bitter taste and good carbonation with a nice body. (Bottle said number 476 of 1152.)
Sehr hopfiger und aromatischer Antrunk, der viel mit einem IPA und nichts mit einem Weizenbock gemein hat. Etwas dunkler wird das Bier im Mittelteil aber auch dies ist durch den Hopfen gesteuert, Malzaromen kommen nur schwach bis an die Oberfläche. Weiter ist der Hopfen vielfältig und aromatisch, dabei werden verschiedene Hopfensorten erkennbar, die sich zwar unterscheiden aber gut aufeinander abgestimmt sind und sich nicht gegenseitig bedrängen. Hefig und minimal bitter wird es zu milden Finish, in dem der Hopfen überraschend früh abklingt, hier ist das Malz dafür präsent. Nettes IPA! 12/11/12/12/11
Bottle at Patricks, Kristiansand. Pours hazy brown with a big off-white creamy head. Good dark malty aroma, with some good citrussy hops as well. Taste is a strange full malty, nearly overpowered by the hop cacophony, but just nearly.
Interesting and well done, mixing American hops with European tradition.
Bottle from Mane Liquor. Pours quite a hazy brown with a thick, but small beige head. Loads of pine and citrus hops entangled with earthy yeast and banana tones. The hops make themselves very present throughout the taste. Loads of dark fruits play a big role in this one - namely plums and raisins. I love this beer
Bottle 265. Big American hop aromas as soon as the cap comes off - citrus/pine. Pours murky orange-brown with improbably large amounts of pillowy head that lasts forever. Makes a great beer mustache. Lots of yeasty fuzz at the bottom. Interesting taste - hop aroma off the top, before moving to a more weizenbock-y character - maybe some banana, more so raisin or something. Major yeast character - earthy, barnyard. Maybe even "basement aromas" as it suggests. Ends with puckering bitterness.
Bottle number 748 out of 992 courtesy of Dany. Pours a fairly hazy brown with a large yellowed beige head. Big yeast and banana notes, slightly oxidized malt, sweet candy. Big and malty sweet with a still present light hop note. Not a ton of oxidization, or at least not as much as I was expecting. Some nice spicy yeast notes on the finish, touches of cinnamon.
11.04.2011. 0,33l Bottle. Number 282. This was the last bottle they had at "Den gode Nabo" in Trondheim. Lucky me!. Brown colour with off-white head. Aroma dominated by dark wheaty malts and sharp bitterness. Dry with malty flavours and very strong bitterness. Good beer, but Idont think it is that well balanced.
Bouteille de 330 ml obtenue via Importations Privées Bièropholie. Arôme: Goût de céréales avec une pointe de pamplemousse. Apparence: La couleur est ambrée voilée avec une moyenne densité de bulle. Présence d’un moyen col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût d’agrumes avec une pointe de pins. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement huileuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Arrière goût houblonné. (Rating #3591)
Dark brown body, tan head. Arom aof berries, alcohol, some unpleasant sewery notes. Flavour adds more berries, some roasted notes, hops and metal. Very thin. Unbalanced and has nothing to do with weizenbock.
330 ml bottle. #115. Batch #02.01. 7.2% on label/7.5% on back label.
From København, Denmark. Courtesy of Brandman.
Murky brown colour with small off-white head.
Malt, yeast and touch of alcohol in aroma.
Flavour is roasted almost burned malt, bitter hops and alcohol. Dry and harsh. Not my idea of great Weizenbock.
Bottle shared with Daje. Port red, thin white head. Smells of grapefruit, apple and zest. Very sweet body, good taste also from the aromas. Finish is veyr hoppy and spicy. The beer definition here is not something i would agree too. Not a weizenbock at all
In short: A muddy, earthy/dirty and perfumy yeast soup. Meh.
How: Bottle 330ml. Consumed soon after receiving through private importation but already about 1 year after bottling date (we don’t get super-fresh De Molen in North-America)
The look: Cloudy orange-brown body topped by a large beige head with good retention
In long: Nose has strange perfume and girly flowers notes that did not “feel” hop perfumy. That perfume aroma covered everything else. Strange. Taste is a lot of dirty yeast, earth, grainy unprocessed cereals, mud, soaked bread crust, flower petals. Earthy hops in the finish almost saves the day. Body is foamy and the carbonation is very soft creating a spongy mouthfeel. To say this beer isn’t clean is an understatement. Downright muddy I say. My description is almost that of a terrible beer but the truth is that it is drinkable. Not really enjoyable but a drinkable muddy mess nonetheless. Not really what I expect from a Weizen Bock but not really what I expect from any style anyway. It is what it is, an uninspired dirty mess. The dudes at De Molen and Mikkeller are talented people but they put out too many new beers just for the sake of putting out a new beer. This one was truly unnecessary and it feels like it was just created to take advantage of their loyal customers base that will buy anything with either De Molen or Mikkeller on the bottle. A message to De Molen and Mikkeller: please stop biting the hands that feed you. In fact, please stop biting any and all hands you weirdos.
Hazy dark amber with an off-white head. Aroma is malty, fruity and very hoppy - grapefruit and flowers. Flavor is rather sweet and very bitter. Dry and very bitter. This has very little to do with a weizen bock, but it’s good never the less. 120310