Mikkeller Cù't Cà Phê Bia
Imperial stout brewed with Koppi Luwak coffee
4.1
159 reviews
Copenhagen, Denmark
Community reviews
Pours black with a small white/tan head. Nose is dark fruits, woody. Taste is really strong coffee and dark chocolate. Vanilla. Some subtle fruits, llicorice
Bottle received in a trade with BenH, straight from his bag of obscurities - when I put this in my wants I wasn’t expecting to ever get it so grazie! Pours black with a slight mocha head which soon recedes to a ring around the glass. Aroma is strong black coffee, some malty sweetness, hints of raisins and other dried fruits from a similar category. Taste is mild coffee, slight red wine, vanilla, slightly smoky notes which lead to a semi-dry buttescotchy and cocoa bitter finish. Full body with a creamy and sticky finish.
Aroma of freshly roasted coffee, vanilla, and chocolate, intense roasted aroma. Taste is very evened out coffee with a peak in the after taste, very full and slightly acidic and earthy, with some berries in it, very good coffee notes which aren’t espresso like but more so a long lingering vanilla chocolate berry note. Mouthfeel isn’t completely top notch, and this beer is quite one dimensional, but still - very good.
Overall: Coffee beans, black berries. Bitter orange peel.
Note: On-tap at Mikkeller Bar. Reviewed 2015-02-20.
Poured from bottle into snifter. Blackish brown with no head and very thin medium brown lacing around the edge. Smells like slighty boozy chocolatey roasty coffee. Taste is mostly smooth coffee, with a little bit of bitterness and some notes of dark chocolate. Medium-full body with smooth feel. Really tasty brew, great flavor from the fancy coffee. I guess you can’t go wrong with a stout from Mikkeller.
Mycket sötma i smaken, mycket chocklad och kaffe. Fantastisk balans i smak och kropp. Mums !
Draught @ All In Beer Fest. Pours oily black with a creamy mocha head that leaves some sticky lacing on the glass while dissipating. Smell is sweet, malty and tiny fruity with roasted malts, burnt caramel, toasted oatmeal flakes, high quality coffee, luscious dark chocolate, raisins, moist soil, burnt wood and hints of alcohol. Taste is slightly sweet, bitter, malty and tiny fruity with roasted malts, burnt caramel, toffee, freshly baked oatmeal cookies, heavy dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, raisins, prunes, burnt wood, moist soil and hints of alcohol. Mouthfeel is fat, soft, round, tiny roasted astringent, tiny boozy and near full bodied. Finish is tiny sweet and bitter with roasted malts, burnt caramel, oatmeal cookies, dark roast coffee, dark chocolate, raisins, burnt wood and moist soil. Top notch stuff. Yummy as expected!
(On tap at VilleValla Pub, Linköping, Dec 4 2014) Pours pitch black with small tan head and no lace. Aroma has dark chocolate, a melange of dark fruit/berry aromas that recall a fortified wine, some coffee that has a pungent smell but isn’t particularly strong, touch of vanilla, moderate roast, and a reasonably sweet dark malt/burnt sugar sweetness that supports everything. On the palate, a bit rough and hot when cold, warming essential. When warm, rich sweetish dark chocolate, a port wine dark fruit vinousness, touches of bitter coffee, a little leafy character, moderate to strong roast. The sweet core persists into the finish, as does that fruitiness and chocolate, but the roast adds a bit of ashy bitterness and there is a touch of the earthy kopi luwak. Much less alcohol heat when warm than cold, oddly. Full bodied and reasonably thick with very soft carbonation. I like all imperial stouts on the warm side but temperature seemed essential for keeping this as a smooth beer. It lacks the super-full creamy oatmeal character and outright pungency of the Brunch Weasel and is merely very good rather than transcendental, but that’s still pretty high praise given the point of comparison.
Bottle. Black colour with no head. Coffee, roasted aroma. Roasted, coffee, dark chocolate taste, slightly sweet. Medium to full body.
Bottle. Deep dark nearing black body. Coffee, slight sugar, and vanilla and oak in the aroma. Flavor is similar, touch sweet, and lots of oak. Thick body.
Bottle. Pours opaque inky black with a large creamy dark brown head that dissipates slowly and laces well. Aroma is roasty, coffee, cocoa, anise, molasses. Flavor follows, medium sweet, medium bitter, a bit of ABV burn. Full body, creamy mouthfeel. Certainly not as overtly coffee as other Koppi stouts I have had, but a pretty tasty effort
330mL bottle
Small pop on opening. Holds a small dense brown head atop a oily black body.
Aroma is brooding - even smells dark! Chocolate liqueur, Kahlua, cocoa, burnt toast, some roast meatiness in there, dark fruits - blackberries, currants, raisins - earthy coffee undertones, some faint floral fruity complexities (coffee!?).
Low carbonation, wow! The texture of it - oily, thick, chewy, sticky, very nice.
Liqueur-like on the palate; dark roast coffee, darkest of dark chocolate, raisins, sweet dates and prunes, dark brown sugar, there’s this earthiness again - kind of fruity - like an exotic fruit character, like durian, well maybe not that exotic, but very unique. Moderate bitterness, loooong finish, some citrusy hop, sweetness lingers, sticky, lovely boozy embrace.
Tremendously well intergrated coffee character in this - properly good. Yum, etc, you get the idea!
330ml bottle (ALEhouse, Riga)
Black, no head. Eww, poured a lump of poop into my glass :-(. Generic sweet roasty aroma, more the former than the latter, really not getting much else. Sweet, but strangely thin palate, tingly carbonation. Tastes of almost nothing, spooky, just some dry ashy burntness. Huge waft of alcohol up the back of the nose - hot! Does have some coffee hints in the finish, but the ashiness completey dominates. Gonna need to get a chimney sweep in to decoke me after drinking this. Bitterness very dry and biting. Not as awful as Black, but definitely not an enjoyable drink. Sub par.
Bottle at Bishops Arm’s Folkungagatan. Oily black pour, completely flat. Aroma of brandy, winey and chocolaty notes, light roast. Taste is rich, really winey, light acidity, port like, nice roastiness, gets really good while it warms. Palate is flat, but nice and winey. Really nice.
Bottle (330 ml) @ Bishop’s Arms Folkungagatan. Pitch black with no head and no lacing. Aroma is of chocolate, alcohol/brandy, winey notes, light fruitiness and roasted notes. Taste is winey with chocolate, roasted malt, alcohol and moderate fruitiness. Full bodied. No carbonation. Oily mouthfeel. Vinous. Good complexity. Nice sipper. Port like. Interesting.
330ml bottle. Jet black colour with late awakening, small to average, thick, frothy to creamy, fairly lasting, superbly lacing, tan head. Rich and complex, roasty and spicy, dark malty aroma, notes of coffee, leather, hints of treacle, liquorice, red pepper, soy sauce, a smoky touch of ashes, remnants of citrusy hop leave a cursory impression of chocolate-captured grapefruit. Taste is slightly spicy, roasty dark malty, bitter hoppy overtones, notes of coffee, mocha, dark chocolate, clammy ashes, sweetish hints of Marsala, bitter and herbal hoppy overtones, remnants of grapefruit, etc. etc. One of those complex, oscillating Imperial Stouts on whose description you could spend hours, adding lexeme after lexeme on the list of flavours (a task you may be able to finish); but you’ll become desperate if you try to arrange them into an order illustrating their succession. Maybe there’s no ’objective’ succession of flavours, just an individual (if not idiosyncratic) sequence of instances of focussed sensation. In any case: excellent beer!
March 2014 - Bottle brewed at Fano, no date, into snifter. Black, small tan head forms but doesn’t endure. Aroma is very perfumey and hop-forward with pine, earthiness and citrus, steam room. I was expecting a lot more coffee! Body is medium, slightly foamy, low carbonation. Taste is smooth malt, soft coffee, more perfumey hop, definite liquorice mustiness, tangy alcohol, bitterness is quite soft but builds. A hop-forward, softly coffee-ish imperial stout. Nice stuff. I’m sure it would improve over a couple of years too. (4.0)
Feb 2016 - Bottle shared in Richmond. So this bottle is now around 3 years old. Let’s see if it has improved, as I had foretold. ...... It’s pretty much exactly the same. Liquorice, bold hops and coffee melded together leading to a dry ashy finish. If anyone’s holding on to a bottle for aging, I’d say it’s got at least another couple of years in it.
12 oz. bottle, pours jet black with a medium brown head. Nose is extremely roasty, with deep dark dried fruit, espresso, some cocoa, and roasted malt - yum. Flavour is unbelievably complex, with loads of dark dried fruits, very high percentage earthy dark chocolate, roasted malt and booze. Wow - this is one of Mikkeller’s most elegant beers. So many layers. Luxurious mouthfeel, that ends on notes of roast and alcohol. Fantastic stuff.
12 oz bottle pours black with a tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee and chocolate. Taste is malts and coffee.
Black colour, 1 finger mocca head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, bourbon. Taste is slightly sweet, medium bitter. Medium to full body, creamy texture, soft carbonation.
Bottle from Archive Beer Boutique 200814. Pours thick black with a level tan head. Big chocolate and coffee aroma. Flavour fills the mouth with sweetness and mild bitterness.
So as far as I can tell, this is the "American" non-oatmeal version of Beer Geek brunch Weasel, one of my all-time favorites. The coffee is not quite as over the top but is still prevelant. There is also more bitter hops and roasted malts, and a little less of the otherwordly smoothness that BGBW offers...but I can totally see ehy this is a 100th percentile beer as well. Very nice and covers the abv quite well
Bottle @ home. Rich black pour with a finger of tan foam. Nose is roasted malt, sweet coffee, vanilla, and ash. A lot of licorice and dark chocolate as well. Slight grape jelly. Flavor is a touch acidic. Spicy coffee and nutmeg. A hint of port, some licorice, and dark chocolate. A fair amount of coffee and roasted malt. Slight ash and earth on the finish. Burnt sugar in there as well. Typical okay, ashy Mikkeller stout.
11.2 oz. bottle, purchased from State Line liquors in MD. Beautiful rich black pour, small light brown head. Nose and flavor are just as expected, with big voluptuous medium roast coffee, chocolate ganache and cacao, hints of vanilla. Delicious, but not quite as captivating as Brunch Weasel was the first few times I had it. Still, delicious.
Pours black into a snifter. Mocha head recedes to skim surface. Hot chocolate and espresso aromas. Full, dark chocolate and hot burning oak. Sweet espresso burn finish.
Bottle. Rich creamy mouthfeel. Roasted malt and coffee aroma. The taste adds dark fruit and chocolate. Pretty good but not, incredible.
Bottle. Dark cola and tan head. Aroma and taste are coffee, chocolate and roast. Thick sticky mouthfeel. Solid but unspectacular.
Bottle. Pours black with very little head. Aromas are rich dark chocolate, medium roasted coffee, brown sugar, dried dark fruit, vanilla, nuts, and light alcohol. Tastes intense. Strong roasted coffee, dark chocolate, burnt sugar, tobacco, alcohol, vanilla, and soy sauce. I let it warm to almost room temp and it got better. More rich chocolate, more coffee, less alcohol. Thick body. Mouthfeel is kinda syrupy. Really good.
11.2oz bottle from Craftshack. Pours a thick black color with a small creamy dark copper head. Aroma of burnt malts, rich coffee, dark chocolate, herbal hops, and booze. Taste mimics the nose with notes charred vanilla beans, and rich caramel. Man Mikkeller knows how to make good stouts!!!
Bottle. Dense very dark brown pour with a beige head. Thick and delicious. Coffee and bittersweet chocolate. Full aroma and taste, slick and dense on the tongue. This is awesome.