Days of the Beer, October 14

The beer for today is Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast Pooh Coffee, but since you probably can't get that (yet) it's just Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast.

On October 14, 1926, A.A. Milne first published the children's book, Winnie-the-Pooh.

Milne named Winnie after a teddy bear owned by his son, Christopher Robin Milne, who was the basis for the character, Christopher Robin. Winnie was named after Winnipeg, a bear and "Pooh", a swan; both were in the London Zoo.

Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast Pooh Coffee, isn't named for Winnie-the-Pooh, but is instead, named pooh for pooh... poop, crap, excrement, shit.

The beer is a breakfast stout, which is normally a thick oatmeal coffee stout.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, many say, and if you are a beer geek there is no better way to start the day than with a powerful, complex morning stout. The unique mix of oats and coffee gives this beer large body and power, while the coffee, at the same time, creates a nice balance.

Ingredients :
water, malt (pale, oat, smoked, caramunich, brown, pale chocolate and chocolate), roasted barley, flaked oats, molasses, hops (palisade, centennial and cascade), ale yeast and gourmet coffee.

Alc : 7,5 % Volume : 500 ml.

The POOH version of this beer has Kopi Luwak, or Civet coffee. Kopi Luwak coffee is made from coffee berries that have been eaten by and passed through the Asian Palm Civet. Civet's eat the coffee berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested. Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, and sells for $120 to $600 a pound. A cup of the coffee will normally sell for about $50 to $100.

The POOH is currently unavailable (but I have it on good authority, that they will be brewing it again soon).

This beer was listed at one point as having the fourth best name for a beer.

So, for Winnie the Pooh, have a Mikkeller Pooh... unless you can't, then just have the Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast.