{"id":952,"date":"2010-10-23T00:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/?p=952"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T02:19:02","slug":"mikkeller-%e2%80%9810%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philcook.net\/beerdiary\/2010\/10\/23\/mikkeller-%e2%80%9810%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikkeller \u201810\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mikkeler '10'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mikkeller is a wonderfully-mad roving brewer. He’s Danish, but this beer is properly tagged as ‘from Belgium’ — he brews all over the place<\/em>, the absolute reigning rockstar of collaborations and experiments and (more than occasionally) ludicrously whacked-out beers.<\/p>\n

As an exploration \/ demonstration of the individual character of different hop varieties, he did a ten-member series of single-hopped IPAs, each using an identical base recipe and just one<\/em> cultivar for its bittering and aroma to really show it off. And then<\/em> — because, frankly, why the hell not? — he made a 10-hopped IPA with that same base and a bit of everything.<\/p>\n

Tasi, one of our regulars and a bartender at Hashigo, kindly gave me a bottle, the mad rainbowy design of which has a section of each of the single-coloured labels from the earlier series — like a tolerable version of that absurd EU “barcode” flag proposal<\/a>. The colour of the beer itself was gorgeous, and you’d have to assume that was true of the ‘singles’, too — the nose, however, was naturally something else entirely with a hell of a lot<\/em> going on. The masterstroke was just that, though. It’s very easy to overdo things, with beer, and this could’ve easily tasted like the sound of a jazz band falling down a flight of stairs, if you’ll excuse my recurring synesthesia<\/a>. But it absolutely didn’t; it had balance, and style, instead.<\/p>\n

Verbatim:<\/strong> Mikkeller \u201810\u2019 23\/10\/10 gift from Tasi + the peeps @ Hashigo 330ml\u00a0\u00f7 2 w\/ Scotty, who has revived that black + red shirt we all like so much. 6.9% Really pretty peachy hazy appearance, in a madly colourful bottle, presumably echoing all of the \u20181\u2019 releases at once. (These were a series of single-hopped beers; this has all ten at once.) A suitably complex nose, but not the cacophony it might easily have fallen into. Easily avoids that jazz-band-falling-down-stairs problem of overdoing things. Nothing really stands out individually against the crowd, but that’s probably the point.<\/p>\n

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Diary II entry #28.1, Mikkeller '10'<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Mikkeller is a wonderfully-mad roving brewer. He’s Danish, but this beer is properly tagged as ‘from Belgium’ — he brews all over the place, the absolute reigning rockstar of collaborations and experiments and (more than occasionally) ludicrously whacked-out beers. 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