Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast
November 18th, 2007Brewery: Mikkeller
Style: Stout
BeerAdvocate.com Rating: 91
RateBeer.com Rating: 4.14 (100th percentile)
Serving: 22oz Bottle
This beer signifies two firsts for this blog. For one this is the first Danish beer I have ever reviewed. This also signifies the first beer I have ever tried that ranks in the 100th percentile on ratebeer.com.
Who is this Mikkeller and why do they want me to drink for breakfast? This is a question that I too wanted answered. While checking out their website it turns out this brewery started out as two guys homebrewing. Apparently their brews have taken off and now Mikkeller brews over 10 beers annually.
From their site: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, many say, and if you are a beer geek there is no better way to start the day than with a powerful, complex morning stout. The unique mix of oats and coffee gives this beer large body and power, while the coffee, at the same time, creates a nice balance.
I’m sold. Let’s pour this baby!
Appearance - Jet black and incredibly viscous. Quite possibly the darkest and thickest beer I have ever poured. Leaves a relatively thin cappuccino-colored head that dissipated rather quickly.
Smell - Smells of rich oatmeal stout and chocolate. Very potent, however with only a hue of coffee smell coming through.
Taste - Wow! This tastes like an espresso shot in coffee form. The mouthfeel is that of a standard oatmeal stout and is very, very smooth. Mikkeller certainly wasn’t joking in that you could drink a pint of this in lieu of breakfast. As it warms up there are much stronger coffee hues that begin to show. To relate this to other brews, it kind of tastes like an amalgam of Rogue’s Chocolate Stout and Midnight Sun Arctic Rhino Coffee Porter.
I’d also like to note that after drinking this pint I had a pint of Rogue Shakespeare Stout, which for the first time actually tasted mellow in comparison.
All in all this is definitely a gem in the world of beer. Could this be the start of a Danish beer invasion in the US? I’m not sure, but it’s more likely this is the start of a trend to drink craft brews for breakfast. Good morning and cheers!
