To Øl Black Malts & Body Salts Black Coffee IIPA

To Øl Black Malts & Body Salts Black Coffee IIPA
Style : 30A. Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer
評價 : S
Beeradvocate評價：88 (Very Good)
Ratebeer評價：100/100

Ratebeer 2013年新酒前50強的佳作，好像有點煞氣

Category #2: The beer should be inspired by a normal Stout,
but where the caramel malts has been replaced by hops.
Certain varieties of hops gives a fruit like sweetness
that can help balance the bitterness, umami and smoke
characters from the black malts. Hops can’t be a substitute
of caramel malts since the sweetness is very different from
the caramel malts, but it can add a more green, diverse and
fruity kind of sweetness.
這支酒受到Stout所啟發，不過焦糖麥的戲份被酒花所取代
特定種類的酒花被用來增添水果般的甜味以平衡黑麥帶來的的苦、鮮、與煙燻風味
因為酒花甜味表現與焦糖麥相當不同所以並無法完全取而代之
但其增添了更多草本、多元、且果感的的甜味


瓶口香氣先是酒花的柑橘清香
這種略偏清麗的風格在很多Mikkeller酒款中也能看到
...所以我在喝的時候猜應該會有Simcoe
入杯後深色麥芽與咖啡香氣濃郁
酒液漆黑，咖啡色的酒帽厚度中等、壽命一般

酒液含氣量低，入口首先是美式IPA典型的酒花柚香
少許果酸帶出之後的黑麥、超濃巧克力、咖啡
上述風味略帶點焦味、但口感輕快不顯厚重
入喉後口腔中有顯著的松香氣息與少量的酵母
收尾轉出顯明的焦糖甜味與烘烤，並佐以咖啡為主體的香氣

老實說跟Mikkeller早餐喝起來是差不多調調的東西
不過口感上沒有那麼黏稠就是

“飲酒過量有礙健康”