As part of the second Open It I’ve lined up a few beers I’ve been keeping for one reason or another, the first two I decided to open were Mikkeller 1000 IBU and the Mikkeller Barrel Aged 1000 IBU. I’d been keeping these two to try side by side and to be honest I was [...]
View Post barrel aged beer, bottled beer, danish beer, DIPA, Double IPA, IIPA, IPAIt’s become a bit of a Christmas tradition that on Christmas morning we pop round to my parents for bacon butties and a coffee based beer, last year I took Saints and Sinners Insomniac so 2010′s choice had a lot to live up to. So when Beermerchants.com got their latest delivery of delights from Mikkeller [...]
View Post bottled beer, christmas day beer, coffee beer, danish beer, MikkellerOpen It night one was a success, I just opened the one bottle, the rather stunning Brewdog Abstrakt AB:04, Night two had a lot to live up to. We went up to @davelozman ‘s where he’d pulled a few special bottles from his stash and cooked a huge chunk of lamb stuffed with haggis, It [...]
View Post aged beer, bottled beer, expensive beer, great beer, open it, whisky beerWhen Beermerchants announced they were getting a pallet load of Mikkeller beers I found my self rather excited (some would say too excited), I’d not had any beer from Mikkeller since visiting the Great British Beer Festival a few months back and he is one of my favourite if not my favourite brewer. For those [...]
View Post bottled beer, danish beer, IPA, lager, MikkellerThis is Mitch’s take on the the World Cup Beer Sweepstake completely unedited and unabridged (well apart from adding a few links here and there) Anybody that knows me knows I don’t do football. I don’t watch it, I don’t show it in my pub, I don’t support a team, and I am unable to [...]
View Post beer and football, denmark, football, world cupI found Mikkeller beers through a certain purveyor of fine ales, I’ve had quite a few different ones now and have built up a little bit of a backlog as far as reviewing them goes, So I thought i would start with one of my favourite ones and go from there. According to the Mikkeller [...]
View PostIn this week’s Meet the Brewer feature, Mikkel from the legendary Danish brewery, Mikkeller answers our questions. For those of you who haven’t heard of Mikkeller I suggest you try your best to track down some of their beers, every single one that I have had has been top notch, especially Stateside IPA and Beer [...]
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