{"id":1195,"date":"2010-12-26T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T11:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:20:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:20:28","slug":"mikkeller-jackie-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/12\/26\/mikkeller-jackie-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikkeller ‘Jackie Brown’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mikkeller 'Jackie Brown'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Borrowing adjectives from another recent entry<\/a> to describe Mikkeller himself is useful: he’s the reigning rockstar of brewing, a mad roving Dane who probably never sleeps, and who is an absurdly multi-tricked pony<\/a> — because you’d be damn hard-pressed to find any equally-universal descriptors for his beers<\/em>. For every boundary-breaking piece of madness, there’s something like this: easy-going and relatively sedate.<\/p>\n

But still delicious<\/em>. I was a little nervous when the bubbles got away from me — my thoughts quickly turned to the parallel importing debate<\/a> and the concerns about rough travel for ‘unofficial’ imports — but my fears subsided as the foam did, because the nose underneath was perfectly lovely with no worrying traces of funk. It was, instead, very much that lid-just-pulled-off Milo tin scent, all cocoa-y and dry and malty. Less rich and ‘big’ than the other recent Brown Ale of note, Rewired (from the oddly-also-Danish S\u00f8ren Eriksen’s 8 Wired label), it treads a delightful line between easiness and fullness.<\/p>\n

My sister’s daughter Izzy tried a little sip, too. It’s difficult to have an un-sampled glass of anything when she’s around, and she does have a pretty neat palate for a four-and-a-half year old — as a rather spooky party trick, she can usually tell you the grape variety in a random glass of wine. I<\/em> can’t do that, and I’m nearly eight times her age, and am an actual bartender — albeit an evidently rubbish one, when things made of grapes are on the line. Anyway, she described this as “lemonade chocolate”, which I thought was pretty neat. I’ll have to see if I can teach her to add beer-style-picking to her repertoire.<\/p>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Mikkeller ‘Jackie Brown’ 26\/10\/10 6.0% $8ish from Rumbles @ the Parents’ house. Mine was enthusiastically heady, which always makes a person nervous about a random import. It’s a gorgeous rich brown, with a nicely dry malty Milo-tin-ish nose peeping through the light tan head now it’s subsided. That dry cocoa flavour is in the face, certainly. Deftly skates between being quite light + quite rich; it’s full-flavoured without being stodgy. What with this and the similarly-Danish ‘Rewired’, let’s have more brown ales! To compare, though it’s been a while, this is less rich + massive, but focuses in tighter on that nice dry cocoa. But really, I should have another Rewired. You know, for science. Izzy said it’s like “lemonade chocolate” — which I think captures the taste + the feel quite nicely.<\/p>\n

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Mikkeller 'Jackie Brown', afros detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Diary II entry #45.1, Mikkeller 'Jackie Brown'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Diary II entry #45.2, Mikkeller 'Jackie Brown'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Borrowing adjectives from another recent entry to describe Mikkeller himself is useful: he’s the reigning rockstar of brewing, a mad roving Dane who probably never sleeps, and who is an absurdly multi-tricked pony — because you’d be damn hard-pressed to find any equally-universal descriptors for his beers. 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