Mikkeller Beer Geek Brunch Weasel (Highland Edition)
Editor’s note: Brewed by Mikkeller at Nøgne Ø, Norway.
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173 reviews
Copenhagen, Denmark
Community reviews
Bottle courtesy of HenrikSoegaard. Thanks a lot! Black with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, chocolate, coffee and whisky. Flavor is very sweet and very bitter. Dry and roasted very bitter finish with warming alcohol. Oily. 061113
Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are rich roast malt, chocolate, coffee, wood, tar and hops. Nice dry rich finish.
2009 vintage 500ml bottle thanks to Garthgoyle for send me this! Cheers! Pour was dark black with minimal tan head. This bottle was about a year past its best before date, smeall is whiskey/scotch and some oak..no coffee. Taste is much the same, a very mellow beer, with light carbonation, some whiskey/scotch and a hit of roasted malts. The age has all but drained the coffee..which is too bad still a nice beer though.
Bottle - Vintage 2009 - Scotch comes through nicely but the coffee is gone. Dark malts are there but far in the back. Jet black and a thin head. Coffee is there but the scotch again is king. Great beer but not enough coffee.
Bottle. Opaque black liquid with small to medium tan head. Aroma of whisky, coffee, oak, vanilla, chocolate, raw sugar and booze. Quite boozy with some medicinal alcohol notes. Taste is light to medium sweet and light bitter with notes of whisky, coffee, chocolate, licorice and raw sugar. Full bodied with low carbonation. Nice but I like the original better.
Rated in 2010 (Backlog) - Black with a small tan head. Aroma is of scotch, coffee, roasted malts and peat. Taste is heavy in oak, with booze, rich coffee, peast and roasted malts.
500mL bottle. Poured deep brown with a short, but well-retained toffee head. The aroma picked up sweet, peaty whiskey, roasty coffee, and slightly dank barrel.. richer, earthier coffee came through on the back of the nose.. the base beer seemed big and interesting enough to keep up with the robust barrel. The flavor found very nice near-burnt, earthy coffee and a touch of vanilla at the core with moderately-peaty whiskey, peppery notes, and tangy oak barrel throughout.. finished with good balance between the coffee and the barrel, but there were a few sharp kickers. Heavier-bodied with low-moderate carbonation on the palate.. OK feel and flow.. just a little sharp at times, but otherwise tasty.
Pours a super dark black color like used motor oil. Dark brown head similar to the color of a chestnut. Smell some coffee and whiskey! Some chocolate in the aroma as well! Taste is a bit chocolatey. Has the aftertaste of whiskey. Well rounded beer.
Bottle shared with (and great courtesy of) ClubGonzo and Inbreak. Pours a deep reddish brown to black colour with a small light brown head. Aroma of liqour, coffee, roasted malt, licorice and dried fruit. The flavour is fruity with more roasted malt, coffee, soy sauce, oak and ash in the end. Has a oily mouth feel, and a lasting medium to heavy bitterness. A nice stout with a powerful taste.
May 2011, 0,5l bottle (batch #415) sampled @ first ever BBGTC tasting:
Svak lukt med preg av mørk malt, humle, kaffi, mørk sjokolade, mørk frukt, trefat. Lett syrlig fyldig smak med preg av mørk malt, humle, kaffi, mørk sjokolade, brent tre, mørk frukt. Middels bitterhet som set godt. Grei.
Sample from bottle. Black with no head. Aroma of wine, cassis, roasted malt. Taste is complex, a bit astringent, wine, alcohol, cassis and massive coffee in the finish (which is long and saturated with coffee).
Bottle courtesy of Thome50, best by sept 2012, but its still okay.. if you like scotch. very minimal carbonation, no head, odd mix of woody barrel and hints of coffee, strong taste of wood and scotch like a young macallan, rough and unrefined.
50 cl bottle @ Gastropub Nordic, Tampere.
Originally rated on 20091022.
Pours pitch black color with a small off-white head. Aroma of licorice, dark roasted malts, bourbon, chocolate, coffee, some vanilla and oaky notes. Flavor of vanilla, bourbon, some cocoa, coffee notes, dark roasted malts and syrup. Quite complex. Excellent.
Smells and tastes like heaven, looks and feels even better. I love it! [short review due to it coming from my backlog]
Bottle from mane liquor cheers josh you mad cunt. Pours a jet black with an oil like consistency. Tanned disappearing head. Superb lacing left around the glass. Up front whiskey in the nose followed by dark chocolate, vanilla and licorice tones. Taste is not what I expected. More chocolate and roasted coffee coming through in the flavour. Not as much whiskey as I would of thought. Been aged for close to 4 years. Like a mocha bomb explosion at the backend of the palate. What hang on!! Whiskey is coming back about 45 secs after the initial sip. Thats awesome! Quite weird but fuck this beer is exceptional!
50 cl bottle @ Gastropub Nordic. Rated on 22.10.2009
Aroma has strong whisky notes, some licorice and hints of vanilla. Flavour is rather strong on stinging whisky, some well roasted malty notes, licorice, distant oaky notes and hints of vanilla. A bit harsh feeling here. Too strong on whisky, the original BGBW was much better.
Bottle thanks to ericandersnavy. The smell is whiskey, scotch, whiskey barrell, wood, malts, roasty, chocolate, and coffee. The look is dark and brown in color. The taste is chocolate, coffee, roasty, and malts.
This was magnificent for brunch! Probably one of the best RIS that I have tried. Beautiful flavours and balance matched with a luxuriant mouthfeel. This is a great great beer.
50 cl bottle, best by 9/3/12. Mahogany with tan froth. Nose is chocolate, rich coffee, caramel, scotch and wood; just right. Medium to full body, a bit chalky with a soft, warming tang. Taste is milk chocolate, oak, scotch, light molasses and smoky raisin. Finishes ashy with hints of dark roast; coffee faded considerably. Three years old now, likely best in 2009.
Sampled at SBWF11
Almost black with a bubbly head.
Sweet licorice, coffee, chocolate and cough-syrup.
Bottle - RBAG. This completes my set of Brunch Weasels (at least until Mikkel decides to do a new version)! From my RBAG Commemorative Glass. Pours opaque black, no head, no lacing. Nose is tight scotch, vanilla, roast, toast, mocha. For whatever reason, I feel that Mikkeller and Harviestoun do the best Scotch-aged Stouts, as versions I’ve had from other breweries just seems to come off... wrong; I must know the secret!!!! Flavours of vanilla, toast, ink, graphite, very dry, very restrained. Very good. But I’m guessing you already knew that.
Bottle, shared at RBAG Summer Session 2012. Viscous near black pour. Scotchy, sweet , boozy aroma with underlying hard roast. Quite boozy. Flavours are rich chocolate and coffee drowning in sweet leathery scotch. The finish borders on hot. I really think that to love this beer, you have to love scotch. Well, I’m your guy.
RBAG Summer Session 2012. Excited for this one...dense, light brown head. Body is as black as it gets. Intense aroma of chocolate, coffee ground and roasted dark malts. A barely noticable scent of wood and whisky. Full malt body. Dark and smooth. Burnt and bitter. Earthy and spicy hop bitterness underneath. Some wood, and subdued whisky tones. Very mouthfilling, syrupy, thick and smooth as well. Alcohol warmth in the ending. Solid, tasty, and surprisingly easy to drink.
Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2011. Black beer with a creamy beige head. Dried dark fruits, malty, chocolate aroma with whiskey notes. Dar chocolate, malty, coffee, dried fruits flavour. Nice beer :-)
Bottle. (thanks SirLimpsalot)
Pitch black with a nice creamy, tan head. Not as heavy as expected but pleasantly drinkable with quite a lot of whisky both in the aroma and taste. Also roasted malt, coffee, oak and smoke.
Mackan: ganska snäll, tydlig whisky smak och doft. Ändå ha ska len med fina rostade toner och trevlig kaffe
Tried @ Grain Cru - Roll Out the Barrels, Belgian Beer Café.
Black as midnight, viscous and oily looking as it swirled around the glass. Next to no life showing, a few stray, minute bubbles release here and there. Head is very shortlived receding back to a thin on the meniscus. Boozy and hot; the vapours of alcohol are just piercing in this one. Underneath a heady aroma of charred oak, vanilla, heavily roasted coffee bean, tar, molasses and aniseed make well to boost it up - it works. Pronounced whisky tones on the palate. The oak of the nose offers a base to it. Very oily in feel and relatively smooth but lighter in body compared with the Beer Geek Brunch Weasel I tried before this. Lots of oak, vanilla, roasted grain, charred wood and bitter burnt coffee and sugar amongst the drowning alcohol spice and rich chocolate. Finish is long, smoky, ashen, tannic and phenolic with a heaving spice coming through. Overall it show a good lot of the oak character without being to overpowering. Not the most complex or integrated of Impy’s but worth a taste! (50cL, unknown vintage, Cellarbrations Carlisle)
500. Pours jet black with a dense and creamy tan head. Nose is very sweet, a little fumey...bordering on solventilicious, alas. It’s been around for a while at this point, so any little flaw will by now be rather magnified, but, still, that’s kinda disappointing. Creamy medium body with soft carb. Roast, dark chocolate, some nice deep coffee notes, and some more swimming pool toys. This is still worth finishing, and the base beer and the treatments both show great signs of a great finished product underlying these heavy phenols, but, still, this is not, as of now, where they intended this to end up.
Bottle from Mane Liquor. Brewed 2009, aged for 3.5 months in the barrels. Pours like motor oil with a sticky tan head which slowly disappears. Some nice lacing left around for a while. Nose immediately brings my mind to dark salted cocoa and subtle smoke. As it warms some woody undertones come out while light herbal and pepper notes mix with subtle vanilla up front. The intensity of the whisky is there but it all smells quite balanced. Sweet vanilla at first with a touch of smoke. Dark and salty chocolate comes out while the ashy undertones transition to a dry, woody finish with lingering sweet bitterness and light smoke. Warming and lengthy finish. Great barrel ageing here. Not too over the top in the highland whisky here. Very nice. Still a very big beer though and would probably be wise to share with a few people
16th January 2010
Opaque black beer. Thin milk chocolate coloured head. Malty nose with a whisper of whisky. Soft palate, a little dry. Dark malt with spicy alcohol and unsweet chocolate. Subtle red fruits in the mid before the whisky starts to bloom. The whisky is slightly sour and marries well with the toasted malt. Finishes with a trace of hop bitterness and some aniseed alcohol. A full on whisky stout.