Mikkeller Beer Geek breakfast

MIkkeller beer geek breakfast has the ability to go on the other side of the green glass door which is cool to start with. aside from it's repeated repeating letters. It is a really nice stout that strays far from the "darkest meanest bad assiest stout around syndrome." It remains a super complex stout. Oh yeah it is a rich dark full stout. It isn't a raspberry stout that gets all fruity, but in addition to dark roast malt there is so much well thought out flavor profile in this. Also, Norway is the country of origin which is pretty cool, (sidebar: I've seen a bunch of Norwegian beers popping up lately has some law changed to facilitate this? is microbrewing exploding in Norway? any answers would be great.) also there is a picture on the side of the bottle that looks like Alfred Jarry and that makes me happy since besides saison yeast, and fries jarry is the only thing i like about France.

Ok, this beer has to start with how pretty it looks and smells. the head on this black beer is a great dark Carmel color with phenomenal retention.(pour carefully even a dedicated head fan like me got pretty tall foam on this and had to take it easy.) it looks so warm and cozy you relax just getting ready to quaff. and the aroma is like a diner, not just coffee a whole diner coffee, toast a waitress named francine who is pretty heavy and yet you still have a crush on her. That is all in this scent it is pretty cool. the thing i found amazing was how sweet it smelled prior to drinking and oddly when i drank some the smell seemed to be disticntly more coffee-y and less malty.

Enough preliminaries let's drink it. For the smell it is surprisingly low on sweetness. mildly bitter but very easy to handle in that respect, somewhat dry but not astringent or with out malty sweetness. the oatmeal of course rounds out the mouth feel, which is slightly betrayed by the high carbonation levels. The carbonation is something i would change, but it is neither unusually high levels, just high for a stout, nor is it a detriment beyond repair, I just disagree with it. I really enjoyed the seemingly large divide among flavors, both very bright bitter notes, and very earthy and full notes, with little in between it makes for a striking flavor that is truly balanced. a rather spectacular beer all in all.

the biggest problem, is the price, it is an eleven dollar pint at my local shop. is it worth is yes, but can you find equally or nearly as good for half or less in price? yes, yes you can. the Norwegian beers all seem to have a high price. I Wonder if there is some atf law that taxes the Norwegian product higher, or what. but , it seems to be the way things work. So, "economic times being what they are" if you don't want to cough eleven up for anything short of amazing I'd stay away, but if you got a twelve dollar bill burning a whole in your pocket and want a new and complex stout try beer geek breakfast it is a reasonable price considering the truly high quality stout being offered.

beer for breakfast once again,

\Mr, President.

mamma mia pizza beer

The lowest common denominator.

Ok, who likes pizza raise your hands. Alright, who likes beer put the other hand up. Anyone who doesn't have two hands raised is most likely dead or unable to digest enjoyable foodstuffs. beer is great we all know that, it is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy (B. Franklin)

And pizza is the universal food. If you intend to feed twelve people you know little about you order pizza, when you reward children you throw a pizza party. Pizza and beer are both almost without exception enjoyed by all people. Tom Seefurth has as such provided us the next logical conclusion pizza beer. That's right it is beer that is seasoned like a hot slice of 'za.

This is my least favorite of culinary inspiration plans. This thing is pretty good, this other thing is pretty good too. How's about I stick um together. Don't do it! I love peanut butter, and I really like a good cup of coffee, I'll never mix them. But, based on the soaring sales of Reese's peanut butter cup (which i love) people have been mixing favorites for centuries in an attempt to find the next big winner. A couple summers ago I saw a "grapple", that is an apple flavored like a grape in case you were unclear. Why is this necessary? What situation can you conceivably find yourself in and think good i want a grape and an apple. but i just don't have time to eat both. It is just a grossly unneeded product. What about Goober Grape???? whose plan was that monstrosity. Or and I know I'm gonna piss some people off here black and tans. I like Guinness, I like Harp, but i can order one drink it and still have room for a second. Irish men slaved over hot kettles to make these beers let's just enjoy them not, muck about because we know more about them. Excuse my digression. Which begs the question. why not eat a slice and order a beer?

To be fair mamma mia is not a bad beer on a strictly run scale. medium bodied, nice golden color, and a nice middle ground on hops, not gonna catch the eye of a stranger but a solid beer to keep in the fridge. Until you realize that after beer you taste oregano, basil, garlic, and smell without question tomato. It honestly left me feeling annoyed i wasn't chewing. the tomato is the most present flavor followed by oregano then malt. This beer really tastes like you just dropped a hunk of pizza in it by accident, threw the bit on the floor and drank down the brew anyway. Which is exactly what i would do. But to make that item on purpose baffles me. Really that is the crux of the problem. The beer is ok as a beer and tastes like they make a decent pizza. but why make this at all. And i mean go ahead and make it once, but base a company on it? it is not as though these beers are an experiment by a big company, they are the only beer produced by the pizza beer company. I just don't understand. I imagine the invention came when an individual was lying on a carpet in his BVD's too high to walk for more food. He then in a moment of desperation found a slice of four day old pizza under the couch. when finding the pizza too hard to eat he dunked it in some flat Heineken just to eat it easier, after a few nights of this. while sobriety still fumbles but the brain has turned back on. this fat and drunk man thinks yes I'll make "pizza flavored beer" and it will be great.

hardly worth rating because this beer is about drinking something not available elsewhere. not making a good beer. Pushed to it I'll give it a 4 out of ten mario carts. I know your going to buy it now out of curiosity for the product. but, I warn you, have pizza nearby since more than anything else you'll wish you were eating pizza.

cowabunga dudes,

Mr. President