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Tiger Baby: Open Windows Open Hills
Mikkeller ApS
- From:
- Mikkeller ApS
- Denmark
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 11.05%
- Reviews:
- 43
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 21, 2022
- Added:
- Feb 02, 2012
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 18
Named after a Danish elelctro pop group Tiger Baby and its third album 'Open Windows Open Hills'. To celebrate the release Mikkeller and Tiger Baby brewed a special 'Open Windows Open Hills'-IPA, which matches the melancholic pop songs.
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Ratings by biboergosum:
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.85/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.85/5 rDev -1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
330ml bottle. A more appropriate 5% ABV on this batch. "Melancholic pop songs"? What, Danish hipsters? Gag.
This beer pours a mildly hazy golden amber hue, with two fingers of foamy, bubbly dirty white head, which still leaves some nice Swiss cheese lace around the glass as it rashly recedes.
It smells of fruity caramel malt - mushy pineapple, guava, under ripe mango, and some green leafy hops. The taste is more tropical fruitiness, the musty mango joined by some subtle blood orange and aged kiwi, all over a softly crackery, grainy, and weakly caramelized malt, with a waft of tamely bitter leafy, musty hops.
The carbonation is soft, but not inert, still going about its job gamely, the body a middling medium weight, with the pithy fruitiness take some wind out of the smoothness sails. It finishes off-dry, and all fruit, the malt wondering why its tail is still between its legs, and the seemingly out-sourced bittering hops continuing to earn their measly paycheck.
A decent APA, with a huge fruit uptick - if ya like the exotic-ish fruitiness, this should be right up your alley, even if it kind of overshadows anything else plying its trade here.
Aug 28, 2012This beer pours a mildly hazy golden amber hue, with two fingers of foamy, bubbly dirty white head, which still leaves some nice Swiss cheese lace around the glass as it rashly recedes.
It smells of fruity caramel malt - mushy pineapple, guava, under ripe mango, and some green leafy hops. The taste is more tropical fruitiness, the musty mango joined by some subtle blood orange and aged kiwi, all over a softly crackery, grainy, and weakly caramelized malt, with a waft of tamely bitter leafy, musty hops.
The carbonation is soft, but not inert, still going about its job gamely, the body a middling medium weight, with the pithy fruitiness take some wind out of the smoothness sails. It finishes off-dry, and all fruit, the malt wondering why its tail is still between its legs, and the seemingly out-sourced bittering hops continuing to earn their measly paycheck.
A decent APA, with a huge fruit uptick - if ya like the exotic-ish fruitiness, this should be right up your alley, even if it kind of overshadows anything else plying its trade here.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by chupachups01 from Korea (South)
3.82/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
3.82/5 rDev -1.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Look - thin white head. clear golden yello
Smell - dominant fruit flavors (mango and passionfruit are definitely there)
Taste - tartness from the fruits dominating the pale ale
Feel - clean, light bodied
Overall - a very drinkable beer, not to it's style (pale ale) but would definitely have it on a summer day
Mar 02, 2016Smell - dominant fruit flavors (mango and passionfruit are definitely there)
Taste - tartness from the fruits dominating the pale ale
Feel - clean, light bodied
Overall - a very drinkable beer, not to it's style (pale ale) but would definitely have it on a summer day
Reviewed by ivehadthatbrew from Nevada
3.95/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.95/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
L: Pours a light amber merky color with a fluffy white head. Not looks like a pretty balanced IPA with some malts too it, just how I like IPA's. Not what I expect from a Pale Ale.
S: Tropical citrus notes. Some lightly toasted caramel smells. Pretty intoxicating. That may be from the high abv for this Pale Ale.
T: There are some serious tropical notes that smack yiu in the face. I can definitely get citrus mango and passion fruit in there (as advertised from the bottle). There's malts thst follow all the way to the bitter ending, balancing it out and helping to put that big bitterness.
F: Light bodied throughout with a pretty dry finish. It's enticing due to how light bodied this is when there's so much flavor. It's also a put off that it's a 15 dollar bottle. =/
Repeat? Probably not, it doesn't carry that wow factor thst makes me want to repeat a 15 dollar brew.
Feb 01, 2016S: Tropical citrus notes. Some lightly toasted caramel smells. Pretty intoxicating. That may be from the high abv for this Pale Ale.
T: There are some serious tropical notes that smack yiu in the face. I can definitely get citrus mango and passion fruit in there (as advertised from the bottle). There's malts thst follow all the way to the bitter ending, balancing it out and helping to put that big bitterness.
F: Light bodied throughout with a pretty dry finish. It's enticing due to how light bodied this is when there's so much flavor. It's also a put off that it's a 15 dollar bottle. =/
Repeat? Probably not, it doesn't carry that wow factor thst makes me want to repeat a 15 dollar brew.
Rated by TrackcoachLVPA from Pennsylvania
4.03/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.03/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Great smell from the fruit, didn't strike me as an pale ale. Don't taste the fruit. Reddish tint to it
Aug 19, 2015
Tiger Baby: Open Windows Open Hills from Mikkeller ApS
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
181 ratings
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