Mikkeller Beer Geek BreAKfast (Alaskan Edition)
Editor’s Note: This is the blue label, cork and caged 750mL bottles brewed at Anchorage.
Oatmeal stout brewed with coffee & fermented in oak tanks. [I added Alaskan edition because this type of name will not be easily identifiable vs. normal Beer Geek Breakfast for people using the Android or iPhone app or people not as well versed in the names of these beers. -GT2]
Oatmeal stout brewed with coffee & fermented in oak tanks. [I added Alaskan edition because this type of name will not be easily identifiable vs. normal Beer Geek Breakfast for people using the Android or iPhone app or people not as well versed in the names of these beers. -GT2]
3.7
163 reviews
Copenhagen, Denmark
Community reviews
750 ml bottle from Dutch’s. Pours a deep opaque brown with a big frothy tan head that settles rocky and craters, with some big bubbles, eventually settling into an uneven film with some lace ropes. Notes of roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, tobacco, cola, dark fruits, earth, and a hint of dusty funk. Medium-bodied, with moderate carbonation and a roasty, earthy mouthfeel that lingers. Nice stout.
Finally getting around to this, after freezing and breaking my first one on accident, and then finding another unexpectedly much after I thought they were gone. Bottle, black beer, little walnut colored head dissapeared. Aroma is coffee,some metal, wet dog, molasses. Taste is black coffee, metal, burnt sugar, black currant, and coffee bitter finish. Palate is a tad bit thin, but not bad, carbonation nicely subdued. This almost has a sour funkiness, I don’t know if that’s oxidized coffee or the oak or a slight infection? The coffee is still there, and I think this is a few years old now. I would have rated this higher, but that’s where the numbers landed.
Bottle shared with daje, edvard and Simonsen at The "Esp0r #2000 Weekend in The Woods" 2014
Opens with an explosive gusher deluxe. Daje jumped 2 meters backwards. Pours dark brown, black in glass, tanned head with big ugly bobbles. Smell of oats, coffee, some vegetables, and earthy hops. Moderate sweet, coffee, soil, earth, quite different from the original version. Moderate bitter finish
Shared bottle at "Exploding bottle tasting" at Petros place Chania. This was the bottle which exploded, or rather the wire cage was removed and the bottle placed on the table for warming upa bit, when it suddenly shoot the cork to the roof, and a fountain of stout appeared in my blurred vision, saved the bottle, and the beer was more than ordinary good. Poured almost pitch black with a small tanned head. Aroma of coffee, dark chocolate and maybe some weak brett character. Taste is the same with resiny hops, dark chocolate, smooth mouthfeel, loaded with coffee, very good one.
Bottle from Vinspecialisten, Aalborg. Black with a light brown head. Aroma is dry, roasted malt and heavy coffee. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and roasted moderate bitter finish. 250415
750ml c&c bottle shared by Pizz5116 after work. Pours black with finger of foamy tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, nail polish, plastic, cocoa powder, and caramel. Taste is better then the aroma, but doesn’t compare to any of the variants of beer geek breakfast that I’ve had. Lots of burnt malts, dark chocolate, a hint of vanilla, and bitter earthy hops.
75cl corked and caged bottle from Grand Cru, Rimini. It pours a dark brown color with a large mocha head. Aroma is roasted maltes, espresso, vanilla, cocoa and ripe apricots, very minor funk. Taste is mostly roasty with notes of cocoa powder, burnt wood, licorice, some fruity esters ad light funk. Medium to full bodied with good carbonation. Overall, nice stout but was expecting a lot more funk out of this.
KRS 181014. Black colour with a tan head. Flavour is funk, coffee, chocolate, cocoa, citrus, oak, cocoa. Easy drinkable wonderful beer. Must drink this one later.
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Mikey’s Bread Gunk BreAKfast (Alsatian Edition), shared by friend, not in living room, for make the taste!
Pours black with and espresso swirl head that leaves spotty lacing on the glass.
The aroma is lots of coffee, it’s lightly sweet, sort of woody and roasty. Aromatic and (neatly) not funky at all (as I had expected)
The flavor actually has a bit of hop character to it and lots of roasty coffee notes. The beer has a good bitterness all around, the oak character is mild as is the sweetness.
Never been a huge cheerleader for the original Beer Geek Breakfast, but I enjoyed this at least as much as the original, cool.
Fruity aroma with mainly apricot, there is some roastiness and liquorice in the background. Aroma is nice but in a stout I’d like the roastiness to dominate not linger in the background, Colour is nice but the head doesn’t look good, the head is very frothy with large cavities. Silky smooth taste with some sweetness and heavy finish with lots of bitterness, The coffe is very apparant in the finish with significant amount of liquorice. All in all a good stout with the finish as most outstanding quality, head could be better and the aroma should be roastier
Bottle 75 cl from Barleywine, CPH. Black with a thick brown head. Coffee, sweetness, apricots/nectarine/peaches, coca-cola, slight sweet licorice. Nice bitterness, roasty, dark coffee, licorice. Full/medium body, low carbonation, bitter coffee finish. Very nice aroma, great with a bit lighter intensity in the taste, nice finish.
Bottle as "BreAKfast", 7.5%. Almost black with medium dark brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, brett, coffee, notes of lemon, oak and caramel. Flavour is roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, brett, medium sweet, hop, little dry, cocoa and bitter.
Huge roast quality going on here... bottle pops with a alarming cork dance but no gushing foam. Pour is highly carbonated with a finger of liquid to five fingers of foam even when gentle with it. Roast roast roast... dark bakers cocoa, smooth coffee and silky oat mouthfeel. A bit high on the carbonation side but still nicely nuanced from front to back.
Helt ok men lite tråkig. Orättvist nog jämför jag med vanilla shake och då faller den platt. Är inte heller ett fan av den rostade kaffe smaken. Men ändå helt ok.
Aroma: coffee, oak, wood, cocoa, liquorice, milk; Appearance: pitch black, fading foamy brown head; Taste: intense bitterness, medium sourness, slight sweetness; Palate: fizzy carbonation, bitter finish, watery texture, light body
Very dry, too fizzy, medium alcoholic warmth, dominated by oak. However, just a bit astringent. Pleasant in moderate doses.
Deep black pour with a mocha brown head. Aroma is roasted malt, slight coffee, dark fruit. The oak makes it very dry. Little chalky, roasted malt, fruit and coffee. Nice lacing.
Bottle (75 cl) from Systembolaget. Black with beige head. Raosted coffee and chocolate aroma, some liquorice and green peppers. Medium bodied, medium to high carbonation. Semi dry, medium to high bitterness.
Bottle.
Pour black with a small brown head.
I find it alot more harsh and coffee heavy than the orignal beer geek, clear wooden notes.
Bottle. Pours a black color with a small longlasting tan head. Has a roasted malty coffee aroma. Roasted malty coffee and chocolate flavor. Has a roasted malty coffee finish.
Bottle. Black color, beige head. Coffee, burnt wood, roasted malts and notes of ash in aroma. More coffee and wooden oak later on as well. Bitter chocolate, some coffee and notes of berries in taste. Dry, but yet quite soft mouthfeel. Lots of coffee and bit of vanilla spicyness in finish.
Look: To much carbonation, pours with obnoxiously huge creamy mocha top, mix of small to medium to huge bubbles that breakdown in random retention, kinda ugly and slow. Ends with random mountainy layer, which stays for the whole ride and leaves lots of random lacing. Dark brown.
Smell: Coffee, chocolaty, roast, grain malt characters. Creamy, oatmeal, milk. But to counter this stout traits there is a very fresh, bit acetic acidity, like sour rye bread. Also some dark fruit esters, mostly berries, sour cherries and cranberries.
Taste: The smell was interesting enough but the taste is on a whole other level. Starts with junipers, very fresh with light acetic acid combined with dark fruit esters. Continues to light oatmeal that goes to grainy, light milk chocolate, roast sweetness and ends with medium roast, coffee bitterness with light oak. Coffee and roast linger on with an interesting spike of juniper, medicinal funk.
Mouthfeel: Medium light heavy body, full on carbonation.
Overall: Bretta made too much carbonation but the effect it had on smell and taste is fantastic. An unique take on the style with good results.
Ins Glas ergießt sich ein schwarzes Bier mit einer ordentlichen bräunlichen Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr röstmalzig, viel Kaffee, leicht holzig, schokoladig. Geschmack nach viel Kaffee, sehr röstmalzig, erdig, holzig.
Bottle at Mette&Theis.
Black colored with a small off-white head.
Roasted aroma of dark chocolate and cocoa powder with notes of oak.
Roasted flavor of cocoa powder with notes of oak and white wine.
Roasted finish.
How: Bottle.
Where: Tasting at omhper.
Appearance: Black colour with a small beige head.
Aroma: Coffee, some vanilla, caramel, roasted malt.
Body: A bit thin body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Coffee, chocolate, roasted malt.
Au nez, ça sent beaucoup le café et la torréfaction. L’alcool est bien présente aussi. En bouche, on goûte bien le grain torréfié et le café. L’alcool est là, mais disparaît assez vite. La finale laisse place a un subtile goût de chocolat jusque là discret. Très bonne stout!
Bottle shared by my friend John. Pours near black with a modest tan head and a treacle and coffee aroma. There is a hearty smooth dark molasses flavor with lots of coffee and a dry bitter finish.
Bottle shared by John. Pours black with brown head. Lots of roasted malts and coffee. Earthy. Bitter coffee finishm
750 ml caged and corked bottle. Served in a snifter, the beer pours dark brown/black with a couple inch frothy tan head that stayed around for a very long time. Had to wait a while for the head to settle somewhat before I started drinking this. The brew smells like coffee, roasted/burnt malt, oats, oak, and some caramel. The taste is mostly like the aroma, the coffee flavor is dominant, with burnt/charred malt, oak, oats, caramel and toffee noticeable. It starts off mostly bitter with a hint of sweetness, but as the beer warms up more the sweetness does get a little stronger. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it’s creamy and easy enough to drink, but also has a bit too much carbonation for my liking. I think it’s a good enough brew, but if it had lower carbonation I’d like it better. I still think it’s worth trying if you’ve never had it before.
Bottle (trade with Patrickctenchi for a SNPA). Chocolate, coffee, grass, and malt aroma. Black with minimal head. Sweet molasses, chocolate, coffee, malt and moderately bitter herbal flavor.
Bottle 750ml (bought from Mikkeller&Friends, AIH40)
Opaque black color, good cloudy brownish head. Aroma has coffee and some licorice. Medium-bodied, soft palate. Probably mellowed with the age. Flavor is dominated by coffee, lingering harsh bitterness in the aftertaste although otherwise plesant mouthfeel. Leading a bit empty finish. I remember the original version for being better.