Drinking very Young lambic in Belgium......

Even though I'm a great great fan of belgian lambic, I had a not so great experience with this 'Champagne of beer'!
During my latest visit to Belgium I went with some friends to one of the old traditional lambic cafes in Payottenland. Here we were served very young lambic (tasted like it was only a couple weeks old.....!). The fluid substance was very grainy and tasted something like thin orange juice mixed with mash.....! Henrik B shot these photos om me finishing my glas in one sip trying not not to look too overwhelmed by the' different' taste........! (click picture)

X Hop Juice 2007 IBU takes the crown!

Beer website beertutor.com has listed the top 100 beers in the world with the highest IBU (International Bitterness Units). It is no surprise that our X Hop Juice 2007 IBU served exclusively at the Danish Beer Festival in Valbyhallen, Copenhagen in May 2007 takes the no. 1 spot! (click picture)

Mikkeller @ Kulminator, Antwerp!

Mikkeller is the first danish brewery to sell it's beer to cult-bar Kulminator in Antwerp, Belgium in almost 20 years!!!

When visiting this summer I found a bottle of Beer Geek Breakfast sitting in the bar.........Dirk and Leen didn't wanna appear in the picture.... ;-) (click picture)

Närke brewers with Mikkeller X Imperial Stout 2006

The brewers from swedish top brewery Närke visited us at this years festival. Besides tasting multible Mikkeller beers we did a little trade....... a Kaggen Stormarktsporter for a X Imperial Stout 2006 (one of the very last bottles)!! (click picture)

Serving of X beers at the Danish Beer Festival 2007

At this years beer festival in Copenhagen in May our stand was quite busy all day during friday and saturday. Specially when serving the X beers the crowd was huge......!

With some of the X beers we served 350 samples in 45 mins.!!!!! (click picture)

Mikkeller @ Københavnske Øldage 2007 in Valby Hallen, Cph, Denmark

This is how our small, but busy stand at the annual beer festival in Valby Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark looked like. Call it narcissism......... :-)
More about the festival later........... (Click picture)

Dry hopping of X Hop Juice 2007 IBU

This is what solid dry hopping with pellets look like :-) I promise you guys, this beer is hooopy.......!!!! (Click picture)

Creation of X Hop Juice 2007 IBU

This it what it looked like when I this weekend created our hop-experiement 'X Hop Juice 2007 IBU' for the annual beerfestival in Valby Hallen, Copenhagen, Denmark. The beer has a theoretical IBU (international Bittering Units) of 2007...!!! Possibly the hoppiest beer ever made (??) (Click picture)

Mikkel(ler) trip to Belgium february 2007

I just returned from a great trip to Belgium with Peter (helper at Ølbutikken) to brew a new Mikkeller beer at the Proef Brouwerij and meet up with the great Struise Brouwers (picture(l-r): Carlo, Urbain and Phil) to sample the first test batches of a future Struise/Mikkeller beer, which will be a crossing between a strong belgien blond Struise style and an IIPA Mikkeller style!! More on this great trip later....!! :-) (Click picture)

Greg of Stone Brewing Co. @ Ølbutikken, CPH, DK

Greg of Stone Brewing Co. visiting Ølbutikken in Copenhagen, Denmark, summer 2005. The picture shows Jeppe (my twinbrother and owner of Ølbutikken), Greg and me! (Click picture)