Mikkeller Hop Series Palisade
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.
3.3
213 reviews
Copenhagen, Denmark
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330ml bottle from Appellation Wines - Cheers Ash! First thoughts - is this off? Very funky nose. Cloudy orange pour, good head, kept there by high carbonation, bit too prickly I thought. Orange notes come through on the taste, but the yeastiness o’erwhelms this one for me.
33cl bottle from Appellation Wines - who retired this? It’s clearly still available!
Appearance - creamy orange with a lovely pillow of lacy head.
Nose - earthy, funky, completely lacking in fruit. Maybe there’s a problem with this?
Taste - bready, creamy, citrus, definitely better on the nose.
Palate - medium bodied and creamy, long zingy finish.
Overall - there’s a problem with the nose. The rest seems fine.
Bottle from Vino Wines. Murky amber body with a large, pinkish head. Excellent lacing. Sweet aroma - honey, maple syrup, tangerine and pine. Flavour of caramel, resin and flowers. Medium body with an oily mouthfeel. Average carbonation. Palisade doesn’t seem to be a particularly intense hop, given the sweet malt characteristics of this beer, but it’s nice and subtle (though maybe not powerful enough to for a single-hop beer).
bottle a amber colored beer with a white head aroma malts spicy earthy citrus and hops flavor malts spicy fruits some earthy citrus and bitter hops
330 ml bottle.
Pours a dark amber colour with a small white head. Aroma of sweet caramel, weak herbal notes and some bread. Flavour of slightly complex caramel, strong piney and floral bitterness, bread, herbs and grass. Medium bodied, soft carbonation and rather sweet, bitter and bready finish. Not musty at all and quite refreshing. Good.
draft @ delirium 9/16/2013 . pours amber, small white foam . smells herbal, tastes bitter, herbal , floral . low carbo, rather sweet.
edit 4/15/2016 Drank side by side with the 19 other variants of the serie. I would like to note up front that - since these beer’s are no longer in production, they were not fresh. this rating should thus be viewed with that in mind, and can shed a light on the ’ageing’ differences between the variants. They were probably better fresh...
Pours rather clear, dark amber, small white foam. Smell is sweet, more sharp, bit fruity. Not so intense, taste is sweet, dusty, madeira , barely bitter. I’m pretty far appart, at 3.7 when fresh, compared to 3.4 when old ( other variants were waty closer or the exact same ) gonna give this the benefit of doubt, and keep the 3.7. Do note though, that when aged, this was one of the lesser versions for sure.
Aroma: Pineapple, sweet caramel, mango,
Appearance: Deep amber with red highlights, slight haziness and a quickly dissipating off-white head.
Taste: Sweet initial taste, Pineapple, grapefruit, herby notes, clean light bitterness.
Palate: Light body, medium carbonated, long sharp pleasant hot finish.
Overall: Highly aromatic and tasty IPA. Nicely balanced.
Bottle from Erzbierschof - hazy amber color, big beige and persistant foam. Hints of caramel, herbal, flower aroma. Powerful bitterness, good malt backbone, quince jam, herbal and flower flavor. Medium carbonated,medium body with a long bitter finish
0,33 l bottle, Brewdog Online Store.
Hazy amber appearance with a huge foamy and creamy tan head. Nice, good lookin’ one. Strong hoppy aroma with grape and grass, resin. No citrusses, no mango, powerfull dry character that rules the flavor with some malt base. Merciless hop bitterness with some tropical fruits. I like the Palisade hop-variet.
Bottle from Beer Cartel. Hazy orange/amber, some sediment clumps, a bit floral, a bit musty/earthy, some pine, quite dry bitter finish. Ok.
33cl bottle @ home; from Geers Oostakker; side-by-side tasting with 4 others; pours hazy orange with big white head; low carbo; smell is fruity, little sweet, wood; taste is quite bitter, oily, dry with a bitter aftertaste. Nice!
from Erzbierschof - hazy reddish-amber beer with a little beige foam left; aroma of tea, flowers and quince; highly carbonated and with a good malt backbone; a fair astringent bitterness, dry and a bit sticky piney finish with notes of red fruit marmalade
33cl bottle. light amber colour with huge head with lacing. malty aroma. taste is spicy with citrus and has a dry mouthfeel, bitter aftertaste.
Part of a 5 bottle tasting. Has a floral aroma, caramel, grassy hops, bitterness of grapefruit. Worked well with chicken and coriander.
Hazy off arange color with a big aticky soapybwhite head. Light citrus light mustiness mellow aroma a hint of grass. Avg palate. Flavor is lightly bitter some piney resiny notes a touch of grahm cracker. Good but not great.
Bottled. Hazy amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is grass, fruits, hay, some caramel malts as well as mild acidic wooden notes. Flavour is fruity, grassy, hayish, herbal with some bready and sweet malts.
Color : nice amber beer with no carbonation and some particles, small ivory foam. Smell: floral, grass and hops nose, really interesting beer. Taste: strong wet hops taste with great floral presence, really amazing taste. Aftertaste: wet strong bitterness with hops.
33cl bottle, served in Shaker. Pours amber with medium off-white frothy head. Some sediments. Herbal aroma with hints of candy, slightly yeasty. The flavour is caramelish and grassy, with nice earthy hops in the back. Good balance overall. Medium body, average carbonation. A soft IPA, very easy to drink.
33cl bottle from Vinmonopolet, Valkendorfsgate. Pours hazy amber with an off-white head. Aroma of floral hops, malt, caramel and hints of citrus and pine and some earthy notes. Medium sweet with a pleasantly bitter finish. Medium body and slightly soft carbonation. Well balanced and quite easy to drink. Quite nice IPA, smooth and enjoyable.
Bottle at home. Pours a hazy dark orange colour with a creamy beige medium head. Fruity and hoppy aroma of lots of grapefruits, resin and some spices, lemon and ammonia. The flavour is more fruity with sweet and sour berries. In addition there’s some caramel, wet cardboard, leather and almost roasted tones in the end. Pretty nice. Soft and slick mouth feel, and has a lingering medium bitterness. A bit faint aroma but is a flavourful and interesting IPA.
Bottle, thanks to Leighton, at the 500 miles tasting in the Sham, 23/03/13.
Hazed dark amber with a thin off white head that clears to the edge and leaves a film.
Nose is floral hops, mineral tones, light caramel.
Taste comprises bitter hops, caramel malt, sugars, dark over ripened oranges.
Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, dry finish with a fairly aggressive level of bitterness.
Ok but not my favourite in the series.
On tap, rated from backlog. Aroma of caramel and piny hops. Flavor is grassy, citrus, peach and caramel.
33cl Bottle. Blind tasting of all 19 Mikkeller Hop Series beers. Shared with Mathieu87.
Appearance: amber beer, stable white head.
Nose: Rather smoked, some caramel.
Taste: smoked aspect comes out in the taste as well, some fruit and alcohol noticeable as well.
330ml bottle from Warners at the Bay Bottle Shop. Big fluffy head that sticks to the side of the glass. Strong golden honey colour. Floral hop aroma fills the nose n h flavour is similar.
Bottle at the 500 Miles Tasting, the Sham. Pours clear copper with a fine, creamy cap. Toasty pine in the nose, hints of dried out brown bread. Medium sweet flavor, dry caramel, pine, bread, leaves, toasty sugar. Medium bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Toasty bread to finish, lightly toasted and aged pine, hints of alcohol and brown sugar. So so.
Bottle, february 9th 2013. hazy dark orange body, nice lasting big white head. Aroma of caramel, anis and pine, taste is grassy with citrus, peach and honey. High bitterness, grassiness seems to stay through the whole beer into the crisp aftertaste. Nice one.
Fra flaske på Humle i Annen mars-13: IBU 47. Sent på kvelden, og smaksløkene trenger å bli sendt på verksted. Denne virket i sammenhengen nøytral og intetsigende, men balansert. Ovesen fikk fornemmelser av golden ale (ingen hedersbetegnelse fra hans side).
Nose is earthy, floar. Taste is spice, fruit and earth. (From tasting of all Hop series Cardinal 11. March)
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Bottle, Beer Ritz, Leeds. Poured a hazy amber colour with a middling white head. Fragrant, slightly earthy nose with notes of fruits, and sweet malt . Flavour was more fruits, a little spice and further earthiness. Hops a bit muted. Dryish finish. Ok, but not my favourite from the series.