Mikkeller Black Cognac Edition (Black Foil)

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Big black body with a massive 1” brown crown! How do you get a cap at 17.5%??? Mikkeller knows that’s how!!! CRAP!!!! Just had an 1 hour delay from my pour to first taste and smell, new baby just had a diaper explode everywhere and I mean everywhere, had to give the kid a bath clean the floor, wash some walls, I’m sure my next weekend project will be to clean the inside of some light fixtures. I think the kid just spewed his own body weight from his bum. Back to the beer that is now room temperature. Smell is epic!! So intense, this is scary stuff. Very sweet aroma, bubble gum, smoke, charred coffee beans, and of course the cognac it isn’t hidden or even subtle it’s in your face booze. I’m getting faint noted of ginger but mot ginger. So very sweet tasting I think drinking straight grenadine would be less sweet then this. Flavour is first and foremost cognac with a bitter ash finish. Raspberry……. possibly from the booze? More bubble gum sweetness. Massive amounts of burnt coffee/ash but even this is getting a beat down from the cognac sweetness. I think this is too sweet for me but I can’t decide right now. I really wish this was chewier. Daaaaaaaaa………not sure how to score this I could give it a 2.6 -4.4 depending on what sip it is. Help me Jeebus!!! This was truly an epic beer to drink and buy it if you see it but don’t expect to love it.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 10 | Mouthfeel: 10 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 10

Jessus!!! This is ridiculous, intense peat, great burnt grain, but the best part is the fruity yeast that shines through despite the barleywine caramel syrupy characteristics. The cognac is the perfect pair for this beer, the flamed orange zest, the burning banana flambe brown sugarness, the awesome riesling diesel rubber apple with tannins rose wine, the pouilly fume, the toasted american oak, etc. this beer just rules. It is an intense 5% guiness, as in it hides the alcohol marvelously, it just is 35 times as intense in all the flavours. Great leather coming in the finish, slides down, slightly on the sweeter side, has a slight floral hop aroma in the most scarce sense, wow really just fantastic, a truly artistic beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

375 ml green bottle (black foil top), courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 17.5%. Pitch black colour, low brown head. Intense aroma of fusel alcohols, roasted barley, sweetish malts, molasses and oak. Extremely sweet and roasty flavour, notes of oak / cognac barrels. Far out on the weird side, but GOOD - in a perverted way.