Mikkeller Black Ink And Blood
Brand new release! A co-lab beer with our buzzing friends from Crooked Moon Tattoo, Jacob and Jonas.
3.5
168 reviews
Copenhagen, Denmark
Community reviews
Bottle shared by Kazator. Very dark colour, brownish head. Aroma is intense but does a poor job in preparing you for the brutal kick of flavour. Lots of roasted notes, moderate alcohol, dark chocolate, raw woodiness. Moderate raspberry and sourness, though high bitterness and moderate to high malty sweetness take the lead. This beer is very rich, complex, very intense, brutal. Unforgiving. Very good, interesting, a bit rough though.
750ml bottle from Coppers, Newcastle. Inky black with a huge brown head of foam. It has a super sharp raspberry and extremely bitter chocolate flavour followed by a sweet red fruity and powerfully warming, slight medicinal cherry and roasted leather finish.
KRS 140815. Black colour with a tan head. Aroma is raspberries, coffee, alcohol. Flavour is raspberries, malt, hop, coffee, licorice, chocolate, alcohol. Full body. Not a harmonic beer, but still a nice one in a strange way.
Bottle; pours black with big brown head; aroma is slightly sour with soy sauce, roasted malt, and some licorice and chocolate; taste is bitter and a little sour with chocolate. soy sauce, and roasted coffee hints; finish is sour with some bitter chocolate and noticeable alcohol; disappointing and I love Imperial Stouts....
From tap at Kaapse Brouwers. Dystopian utopia! Tastes like the end of the world. Backlog from 2014/10/24.
Bouteille achetée chez Erzbierschof - De couleur noir avec une abondante mousse fauve, qui cole au verre mais disparaît assez vite - Au nez des arômes de café très puissant, beaucoup de framboise, chocolat noire, beaucoup de torréfaction, des notes terreuse, avec une bonne présence d’alcool, le nez est fabuleux - En bouche tout est trop puissant, l’amertume et trop présent, une pointe l’acidité, alcool est partout, je n’arrive pas à ressortira qqch de particulier tellement que ça me dérange - Corp puissant, amertume puissante, carbonation pétillante, aeche et amère avec une pointe d’acidité, final acide framboise et café - une grosse déception mais qui reste quand même intéressante
750 ml. bottle. Poured into a Mikkeller Teku. Black, deep chocolate mousse head, small, patchy but very creamy. Nose is thick raspberry with very heavy alcohol, almost dash of vodka & nail polish, light burned cacao beans in the back. Taste is raspberry cookie filling leading into harsh vodka alcohol with thick herbal licorice, huge roast, burned charcoal, burned cacao beans, 99 % black chocolate, hugely roasted coffee, harsh lingering alcohol burn. Dries out your mouth body with huge roast, lingering roast & char. The roast is extreme & really lingers but upfront you really do get sweet raspberry candy filling. The “chocolate” profile on this one is insane, reminiscent of 99 % cacao chocolate bars. This doesn’t taste like coffee & chocolate, this tastes like you are trying to chew actual roasted coffee & cacao beans. Ridiculous, crazily harsh. Extreme beer, admirable so, a bit too extreme for me to fully enjoy, I however do respect it. On top of everything it is also super dry for an RIS. I really admire it, I also wish that it was easier to dry but maybe it wasn’t meant to be easily drinkable. Overall this is probably the least drinkable beer I have ever had, impressive honestly in that expect. Very hard to drink, took hours & hours, a first one for me.
0,2l on tap @ Mikkeller & Friends. Pours very dark brown, almost black, and oily, with a medium thick brown head. Beautiful. Aroma is sweet roasted malts and raspberries. Some alcohol. Flavor is sweet roasted malts, raspberries and alcohol. The finish is unfortunately way too bitter for the rest of the beer. Doesn’t ruin it, but disappoints.
0,2 l hana @ Mikkeller & Friends. Sameahko lähes mustanruskea. Tuoksussa upea täyteläinen vadelma, paahteista mallasta, vaahto lähes hyytelömäisen paksua, mokan väristä. Maussa vahvasti makeaa ja kirpeän raikasta vadelmaa, hiukan humalaa ja jälkimaussa humalaa sekä kitkerää paahteista mallasta. Alkoholi maistuu, mutta juuri sopivasti. Täyteläinen, öljyinen suutuntuma.
Bottle. Pours a pitch black with a huge, tan head. Good looking! Aroma is very roasty, hoppy, raspberry and burned sugar. Taste is extremely bitter, roasty, hoppy, tart, raspberries, very little sweetness. Burned and roasted onions. Full body and average high carbonation. Has it’s good sides, but had to drain pour some of this!
Bottle. A big, dense, tan head leaves lacings over a black body. The aroma has lots of raspberry, lots of coffee and a nice touch of dark chocolate. Alcohol too, but well hidden. Lots of flavor too, the alcohol much more evident, almost bothering, with lots of raspberry and coffee too. Some chocolate and some dark roasted malts. Full body and a nice carbonation, Raspberry seed bitter, warming and sweetish. Lasting finish. Way too much raspberry seed bitterness going on, sort of crashing with the roasted malts and related flavors. But sure interesting and quite decent. 150814
Bottle. Pours black with a brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, some dark berries, raspberries, ash caramel and grains. Flavor is sweet and malty with some raspberries, bitterness, warming alcohol and pine. Medium body, average carbonation.
Bottle 750ml @ Geokkjer
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, tart raspberries, chocolate, coffee, alcohol and caramel. Taste is medium sweet and medium to heavy bitter with a long warm, roasted, tart raspberry, caramel, chocolate and bitter finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Bottle at ash’s. Pours black, nose is tart raspberry, light smoke, meaty, chocolate, little medicinal, taste is dry, hugely bitter, light smoke, tart fruit.
Enjoyed in Ash’s back garden. Bought from Brewdog AGM 2014. Looks amazing on pouring. Big fluffy full bodied head which is quite quite brown. And then...this is an astoundingly different experience. It leaves you swinging between pleasure and pain. Loads of Rasps, considering the age. Big fruity sweetness. Attacks the palate. Slight coffee bitterness. Rich. Sour assault too paradoxically. Massive morning grapefruit pith. I’m not ambivalent really...this is good...and masochism all in the same experience. Enjoyed. Unique.
Bottle at Ashton McCobb’s. Pours black with a thick tan head. Aromas of lowland medicinal herbs, raspberry, fresh liquorice root, Pontefract cakes. Taste is tangy raspberry, bitter, charcoal, ashtray, slightly burnt, gnarly finish.
Last wee tasting of the summer
Bottle thanks to Jeevan.
Appearance - opaque black with a lovely fawn head.
Nose - blackcurrant and mountain herbs. Raspberries.
Taste - sour tangy herby. Olbas oil.
Palate - medium bodied with a big tangy texture and a long dry tangy finish.
Overall - very interesting and perhaps a little gnarly.
Pours black with a brown head. Aroma is roasted with notes of raspberry, liquorice, salmiak, tartness and sea salt. The taste is tart and roasted with raspberry salmiak, tobacco, burned malts and ashes. I like this as a sipper but it gets too much in the long run.
750ml bottle. Jet black colour with huge, creamy, fairly lasting and more than fairly lacing, tan head. Aroma is extremely nose to glass distance-related. First impression (longer distance) is quite repellent: sourish notes of caper, prawn, anchovy, maybe sepia ink. With coming closer and inhaling deeper those flavours suffer a metamorphosis and prove themselves to be extremely concentrated and intense notes of raspberry, liquorice, and black chocolate. You can switch arbitrarily between those two kinds of impression. Taste is tremendously bitter, biting, sourish, tangy, raspberry again, dark chocolate, liquorice; in the finish with some subtle sweetness and blueberry notes; slightly burning alcoholic. Well, it is an interesting "pushing the envelope" experience, but the road taken shapes up as unsavoury dead end. Unbalanced, inharmonious - miscarriage.
On tap, Mikkeller Bar, Viktoriagade. *Actually* everyone, this is really good stuff! Granted though, it is different. It's unlike any stout I've ever had before, and in fact unlike any beer (or any drink) I've tried. Pours a gorgeous jet black, good head and lacing: so far, so stout. Nose is pure berries (raspberries)--reminiscent of a lambiek, but with coffee and toffee in the background. Massive unctuous palate, with more raspberry: just as well I love raspberries!! On the finish there is a bit of alcohol burn and some bitterness. A unique beer, as I said at the start: NOT what you'd expect if you're expecting a big-alcohol imperial/Baltic stout. But most definitely worth a try.
Draught, Bishop’s Järntorget Porterveckan 2014. Backlog.
Labeled something like Mikkeller/Croocked Moon Imperial Raspberry Stout.
Black with a porous beige head.
Aroma: very sour raspberries, sweet licorice.
Taste: raspberries, licorice, roast, cocoa, ashes, wood, quite tart.
Quite interesting and different, but not really to my taste.
bottle sample at a tasting, all 3 bottles where provided by a kind soul. i heard some rumors about these versions. poured a dark brown colour with a small beige ring, nose hits you right away with sour chemical fruit notes, berries, roasted notes, soap, tart, licorice, sour raspberries, 2 totally different flavors, something went wrong here, that’s for sure. i don’t know how this tasted right after botteleing... lucky enough i didn’t pay for the bottle. pricing is redicilous that they ask for this bottle. drainpour!
Quite sour from berry and maybe hops ? It takes a while to get used to but this beer is far better than it’s reputation.
Drank during the tasting 08-05. Very bitter, especially in the end. Also sour. Not drinkable.
Bottle: Taster:
Medium sized brown head. Black body.
Aroma is a funky unbalanced mix of berries and roast with some soap...
Flavour is also an unbalanced mix of spice, bitter, wild & funky, liquorice, roast...
Aftertaste is strong bitter, roasty and liquorice with some red fruit.
Unbalanced and heavy. Close to becoming disgusting...
75cl bottle shared @ 12th Shrewsbury Bottle Share at Chez Sophie, April 15. Pours black with decent beige head. Aroma is raspberry and cocoa. Insane breadth of flavours in the taste with thick chocolate pierced with fruity raspberry jelly beans. The sheer strength of this beer just about pulled it together into a hefty amalgam of fruit and bitterness. Any less than 16.5% and it perhaps might not have worked.
Small sample in the Beer Geeks bus from Vleteren. Black color, brown head. Aroma’s: fruit, raspberries and alcohol retronasal. Flavor is hard roasted, moderate bitter, fruit. Strong alcohol feel, full bodied. Finishes dry, fruity, sourish. Not very nice.
28th April 2015: shared 0.75 litre bottle at a Shrewsbury Bottle Exchange Group meeting: cheers Simon for the last beer of the night. Black body, tanned coloured head. Aroma and taste dominated by Raspberry flavours. The beer had a sour bite and a lingering bitterness, tart and sharp throughout. Mild chocolate notes tried to make an appearance, but failed. The alcohol hardly got a look because of the heavy flavourings and depth of body: glad it was the final beer of the evening and I did enjoy the experience of trying this monster.
Bottle shared by Mick. It pours black pour with a rusty tan head. The nose is fantastic raspberry sweetness with some tannic raspberry seed character. Smooth creamy shake like body. The taste is bitter tannic woodsiness with some residual sweet ness. It is almost like a branch from a raspberry bush was dunked in the fermenter. The taste is a bit disjointed and unbalanced but supremely interesting. It is a great mind-bending imperial fruit beer. Interesting as hell.... On tap at Beer for Geeks: lots of heat in the nose, lots of berry. Very interesting, more clear flavor than from the bottle. Nice.
On tap at Christian Firtal. Black with a small off-white head. Aroma of raspberry with licorice, chocolate (brun lakridskonfekt!) and plenty alcohol. Sweet and hard roasted malt flavour clashing with sour raspberry. Really not very harmonious beer