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(Copenhagen, DENMARK) – Another day, another Mikkeller update…
I was caught by surprise today with a blog post over at The Wine and Cheese Place about a new Mikkeller beer called Ris a la M’ale. Somehow (for reasons I know but won’t share to protect the innocent), this beer had already arrived on store shelves (or at least TWCP) without my knowing about it! Anyway, here are the details I dug up from an article in last week’s Politiken.dk (translated):
“‘Rice a la M’ale’ is to be enjoyed as a dessert, similarly to the one of the same name that inspired it, Risalamande. In this new beer, the one-man brewer has, among other things, experimented with cherries and almonds.
“I’d make a new Christmas beer and think it’s fun to experiment with new ingredients and spices so it was natural to try to make a dessert that can be drunk to risalamande,” explains the brewer.
In the new ‘Rice a la M’ale’ the man behind Mikkeller used all the ingredients of the Danish Christmas dessert: rice, vanilla, sugar, salt, cream / milk and then cherries and almond extract.
The result is a slightly tart ale, which must provide the counterpoint to the sweet risalamande-dessert.”
As a word of caution, however, RateBeer users have rated this beer as the worst, by far, that Mikkeller has commercially created.
In other Mikkeller news, be on the lookout for Mikkeller Red and White magnums, on shelves now. Also of note, two new versions of Barrel-Aged Black Hole will be released in the future (and should be shipped to the U.S.). Per Mikkel, “Last time we did red wine, peat whisky, bourbon and rum. Since the rum barrels we have access to are not good, we stopped this and did two new ones instead – white wine and cognac.”
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