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Mikkeller Beer Mail - October 2019

Here's October's selection. Five of the beers this month also feature in the October Beer Club. It's a nice mix of styles, with IPAs of different intensities, an Altbier, Berlinner Weisse, Gose, pastry stout, and flawed NEIPA.



1. Mikkeller: Beer Geek fudgesicle
12% Imperial Oatmeal stout. Can 30ml.
Description: brewed in Lervig with all the other Beer Geeks. This one has cocoa, vanilla, lactose and Butterscotch extract. I usually love the Beer Geek beers but wasn't crazy about this. 
Untappd: 4.18   https://untappd.com/b/mikkeller-beer-geek-fudgesicle/2709564
Ratebeer: 98    https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/mikkeller-beer-geek-fudgesicle/630885/           
     

2. Mikkeller/ Timm Vladimirs Bryghus - Boat Love
5% Gose. Can 500ml.
Description: Dry hopped Gose with a hint of coriander.
Untappd: 3.46   https://untappd.com/b/mikkeller-boatlove/3459746   
Ratebeer: n/a   https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/timm-vladimirs-bryghus-mikkeller-boatlove/775710/   

3.  Mikkeller: 0 IBU
12.1% Tipa. Can 500ml
Description: Sweet, no bitterness TIPA. Made with no bittering hops - just with whirlpool and dryhopping. A malty boozy fresh tasting beer.
Untappd: 3.29   https://untappd.com/b/mikkeller-0-ibu/3407830
Ratebeer: n/a   https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/mikkeller-0-ibu/765650/       

4.  Mikkeller: 1000 IBU
12.1 % TIPA. Can 500ml
Description: An update on Mikkeller's previous version. So I've read that you can't taste much over 100 IBUs in a beer, and that you can't physically dissolve much more than 100 IBUs worth of iso-alphic acids in a beer. So the 1000 IBUs include a lot of 'theoretical' IBUs, and a lot of it comes from hop extracts. This beer is obviously hoppier than the 0 IBUs version, and has a lot of maltiness and alcohol sweetness.
Untappd: 3.55   https://untappd.com/b/mikkeller-1000-ibu-triple-ipa/3410573
Ratebeer: n/a   https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/mikkeller-1-000-ibu-12-1/769770/       

5.  Mikkeller: 3000 IBU
15.5% TIPA. Can 500ml
Description: Sweeter than the 1000 IBU this is hopped exclusively with hop extracts. Very boozy, very bitter and sweet.
Untappd: 3.59   https://untappd.com/b/mikkeller-3000-ibu/3407831
Ratebeer: n/a    https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/mikkeller-3000-ibu/768866/       
   
6. Mikkeller: Hallo ich bein raspberry double
4.4% Berlinner Weisse. Bottle 375ml.
Description: Double strength of raspberries in this MIkkeller staple. I always enjoy it.
Untappd: n/a
Ratebeer: n/a   https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/mikkeller-hallo-ich-bin-double/776784/   

7. Mikkeller: Bullet Haze
% type. Can 500ml
Description: IPA with soba / buckwheat. It was supposed to be an NEIPA but the buckwheat is high protein and took out the haze as the beer fermented. It's straw coloured, and still drinks a little like an NEIPA in that it's sweet and juicy.
It does make you wonder about how the design to can cycle works. Could the can was designed and name be picked before the beer went through a pilot kit? Maybe the protein drop-out only happened on a larger scale?
Untappd: 3.61   https://untappd.com/b/mikkeller-bullet-haze/3439260   
Ratebeer: 51   https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/mikkeller-bullet-haze/772300/    


8. Mikkeller / Uerige: Gnavne Gamle Men 
5.1% Altbier. Bottle 330ml.
Description: Brewed with Uerige from Dusseldorf. Malty, caramelly, a littel hoppy.
Untappd: 3.452   https://untappd.com/b/uerige-obergarige-hausbrauerei-gnavne-gamle-men/3345840   
Ratebeer: 75   https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/uerige-mikkeller-gnavne-gamle-men/752556/       

9. Mikkeller / Boon: Gout Americain
% type. Can / Bottle 500ml / 330ml.
Description: Lambic, 'Gout Americain' used to be a term applied to acidic champagne sold to Americans. So slightly mroe acidic lambic - green apples, funk, acidic punch.
Previously appeared in the Beer Club in a bigger bottle.
Untappd: 3.86   https://untappd.com/b/brouwerij-boon-oude-geuze-gout-americain/3300446   
Ratebeer: 92   https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/boon-mikkeller-gout-americain-oude-geuze/747357/       

Here's the preview video Mikkeller put out, Brandon presents again and adds in lots of nice tasting notes.

(if that embed doesn't work try this link)



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