Mikkeller Hop Series Centennial
This beer is a part of a Single Hop IPA series by Mikkeller. We created this series to showcase hop varieties on their own. This gives the consumer the possibility of smelling and tasting the unique characteristics of each variety and hopefully helping to educate people about the wonderful world of hops. For each beer, the single hop variety was used in the same weight for bittering, aroma and flavor and for dry hopping. All 19 varieties of single hop beers in this series were brewed the same week and with malts from the same batches and the same yeast and fermentation temperatures. This is done to better compare the characteristics of the different hop varieties.
3.5
199 reviews
Copenhagen, Denmark
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Amber beer with a decent offwhite head. Hoppy resin aroma, foral, caramel, citrus, mango nots, some hay. Fruity hop flavor, caramel, resin, hay, mango, some floral notes. Decent,beer.
33 cl bottle 6.8% amber colour with small creamy head. Moderate bitter taste (56 ibu), spicy and citrus notes. Oily mouthfeel. Very good.
Bottle from John’s Grocery in Iowa City, IA. Murky orange pour with a large foamy head. This seems like it was on the shelf for awhile - maybe that’s why they were having a blowout sale on these? Some citrus notes are still here, but there’s some dustiness and cardboard as well.
Pours a cloudy copper with large beige head leaving lots of lace on the glass. Aroma is floral, citrus, resin, spicy, and light bready malt. Flavour is spicy, resin, citrus, mild-medium bitterness, bready, and a light malty sweetness.
Grassy, pine, bit woody. Feels old, dusty too. Not so aromatic. Simple malt base, but that’s expected. Neh. (33cl bottle from Dranken Geers)
Pours an orange beer with a good frothy white head. Smells fruity and a bit cheesy. Tastes citrus and grapefruit with a good bitter finish. Good average carbo with a thin body and a dry texture.
330 ml bottle, enjoyed at Barcelona in a tasting of Centennial-Citra-Amarillo-Simcoe.
Pours a dark amber colour with a small foamy head. Aroma of floral hops, biscuit and resin. Flavour of biscuity malts, strong floral hops, resin, weak grapefruit and caramel. Medium bodied and a long, lingering bitter, resiny finish. Good one.
Bottle from Vino Wines. Hazy amber body with a medium off-white head head. Nice lacing. Aroma of grapefruit and oranges. Flavour is like the aroma - the finish is slightly peppery and very bitter. Medium body with an oily mouthfeel. Soft carbonation.A juicy, bitter IPA.
On tap at mikkeller vesterbro. Copper amber,medium head. Smells..floral hops, a little soapy, some stone fruit -peach / apricot, soft bread malts Tastes..a little more fruity than it smells, grapefruit and stone fruit, still some soap-ish flavour and a fair bit of bready malt.
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Dorée-orangée, col épais blanc-cassé.
Arôme est simplement fantastique avec un bouquet pin-résineux dominant.
Palais est agréablement houblonné, pin qui domine avec un fini malté restant en retrait légèrement caramel. Fruité tropical rappelant un peu le pamplemousse entrecoupé par ces notes de pin.
from Erzbierschof - hazy reddish-amber beer with a little foam left; slightly yeasty with hoppy notes of peaches and apricot; gently sticky, medium-bodied; pretty tasty and bitter; long aromatic fruity and piney hoppy finish; dry
330ml bottle courtesy of Valhalla’s Goat, Glasgow - clear amber brown, bubbly off-white head, grassy grapefruit aroma, sweet, fruity, citrus, moderately bitter green hop finish
4th for me in the Mikkeller hop series (Cascade, Columbus, Bravo). 330ml bottle from Sherbrooke. Pours a hazy copper with a fairly frothy head. sticky lacing. Aroma is mild grapefruit, strong floral.Taste is mild sweetness (citrusy, piney, floral) and a lingering bitterness - cookie dough, caramel malt character really brought out, and more floral bitter hop notes. Pretty cool brew.
Bottle looks simple but good. Beer in the glass dark golden, nice head. Grasy-hoppy aroma. Starts dry-hoppy, a bit soapy-dry. Finish less dry, modest fruity. Well balanced finish. Okay.
Solid IPA. Great Pour, quite grassy with plenty of citrus flavours. Big malt backbone.
Bottle. Pours cloudy orange amber, lots of sediment apparent through my own fault, but evidently does not detract from the flavour. Big light tan head and great lace. Aromas of lemon, grass, citrus, sweet caramel toasted malts, a touch of honey and nutty notes. Medium light body, medium smooth bitterness. Finish is semi sweet and toasty with caramel malts, munich roastiness and lemony citrus grassy hop flavours balanced with a big malt body.
Cloudy golden. Offwhite medium head that clings. Grassy nose. Taste is... barn, grass, citrus and some yeast.
Color: nice clear amber beer with medium carbonation and big white head and small particles. Smell: hops, grass, caramel, sugar, floral noise. Taste: nice hops explosion, strong and complete! Really tastefully with grass and floral taste ! Aftertaste: nice wet bitterness but not so strong, caramel.
In short: A floral and citrusy-acidic IPA with heavy cookie maltiness. Good.
How: Bottle 330ml, consumed a few weeks after purchase, as fresh I can get Mikkeller in North-America.
The look: Cloudy dark orange body topped by a large beige head with medium retention.
In long: The pleasantly hoppy nose is floral and citrusy. Taste has a big malt backbone, plenty of toasted cookies, a bit grainy, crunchy dried fruits. Assertive floral and citrusy hops pushing forward grapefruits, clementines, garden flowers, lemons. A bit too much of a yeast presence than I like to feel in an IPA. Bitterness level of medium intensity with citric acidic undertones. Tasty IPA, decent beer even if a bit too yeasty and citric for my taste. Some people are giving this beer a good rating, some people are giving this beer a bad rating, but the absolute worst thing about ratebeer these days is that a French Canadian dude can come on this site and affirm knowing what is the absolute worst thing about ratebeer these days.
33cl Bottle. Blind tasting of all 19 Mikkeller Hop Series beers. Shared with Mathieu87.
Appearance: amber beer, stable white head.
Nose: quite fruity, some yeast.
Taste: this hop doesn’t give much ’extra’, quite sweet, little honey like.
Sampled as part of a hop education class. Very earthy compared to Williamette, Bravo, and Nugget. Not overly hoppy or bitter. Compared to the other 3, my least favorite, although a solid body in mouthfeel.
Bottle at home. Pours a hazy dark amber colour with a light beige (chai latte) medium creamy head. Floral and grassy hoppy aroma with a touch of lemon and some ammonia and wet cardboard. The flavour has more piney and grassy hops with some dust and alcohol in the end. Lighter mouth feel than expected and is slick, and a heavy increasing bitterness. Nice aroma, but the flavour feels to unbalanced between malt and the amount of bitterness. A true hop head would maybe disagree.
Fra flaske på Humle i Annen mars-13: den femtende denne kvelden av i alt 19 i serien, og med sine 56 IBU var denne en av de lettere. Deilig aroma og smak av søtlige frukter (Coop tropisk juice-fornemmelse) med llime og sitron. Kanskje litt for mye av det gode?
Wet pine, grapefruit in nose. Caramel, herbal, catty in taste (From tasting of all Hop series Cardinal 11. March)
Bottle (discounted) from Five Points Bottle Shop (Lumpkin St.) in Athens. Caramel and some kind of fruit juice. Slightly cloudy copper color, with a 1-cm head. Quite sweet initial / hops emerge with a vengeance, with some toffee in the background / finished with a small hop burn, and the balances. Thin-medium body. Pretty good. The balance has held up here. Centennial seems to be a hardy fellow.
12oz bottle. Deep murky orange-brown body. Massive foamy off-white head. Sweet, almost what I associate with sticky, classic US brewpub IPA. Piny, syrup covered grapefruit. Accentuates the caramel malt notes...or maybe that is the earthy tone from the dry hopping. Centennial tastes like 1990s IPA to me. Captures a nice fruit tone, approaching a black, purple fruit undercurrent. I can see why they don’t filter this series, but once again, this is very malt forward and yeasty.
Richmond 19th. Medium orange, Aroma of caramel and primarily grapefruit citric hops. Flavor is a match. Nice. Still think I would reach for a Two-Hearted before this one if I want to really highlight Centennial.
Bottle@home. Amber hazy. Beige two finger foam. Pine fresh resin aromas. Some green grass as well. Moderate bitterness. Medium finish. Nice expected more citrus maybe its evaporated.
Sampled at the Richmond Gathering 19. Slightly hazy amber with small particulate and faint offwhite head. Smells and tastes of old musty earthy hops similar to the cascade, but more stinky. Faintly citrus, but that has faded for the mostpart. More sweet and ’reddish/orange’ flavor. Pretty good.
Rosehip nose. Clear amber with floaties, medium head. Rosehip flavor, some cracker notes. About what I expected, albeit not terribly fresh.