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.