3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle 25cl.
Clear dark red brown color with virtually none head. Aroma is light heavy malty, roasted, caramel, berry, wood, oak, alcohol. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, dry and alcoholic. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is flat, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. [20090516]
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. A pitch black beer with no head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, brown sugar, and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet though with an acidic edge from the hard roasted malt with notes of soy sauce, wood, and alcohol, as well as light notes of oxidation, leading to a dry woody finish. A bit too much for my liking.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
CBF09. 50 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a small tan head. Dark roasted malt. Dense chocolate and slight smoked too. Roasted malt and dark chocolate flavoured. Smooth and flavourful finish. Need to resample a full bottle of this.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle 25 cl. Pours completely pitch black with no head - pure motor oil. Distinctly burned aroma of black malts and massive alcohol. Quite full-bodied, completely flat, wood and sherry notes, loads of burned malts with a heavily alcoholic finish. Pretty damned extreme! 160509
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottled@The Bishop’s Arms, Vasagatan, Stockholm. Quite much pitch black colour, no head. Aroma is wood, liquorice, alcohol, burnt sugar and some spices. Also dark chocolate and some espresso coffee. Flavour is wood, sweet liquorices, ashes, burnt wet wood and some slight notes of dark fruits. Big liquorice, herbs and ashes in the finish. Very wellbalanced and hides the alcohol really well.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at Københavnske Øldage 2009.
Pitch black coloured with a small beige head.
Sweet and rooasted aroma of chocolate and liquorice.
Sweet and roasted flavour of chocolate and liquorice with notes of alcohol.
Roasted and warming alcoholic finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Cloudy dark brown, minimal head. Meaty soy sauce aroma. Takes full bodied to the extreme. Very sweet withlots of caramel. Thick with lots of power and even more molasses. Syrupy finish. Too thick and raw. Needs a century or so to mature.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Pours a deep brown almost black color with no head. Has a strong malty caramel aroma with hints of licorice and burnt sugar. Sweetish strong malty caramel flavor with hints of sugar and licorice and some hints of wood. Has a strong malty caramel finish with some hints of licorice in the aftertaste.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle at KØ09. Mild vinous aroma. Black colour. The flavour is quite peppery. Nicely sweet with a hint of smoke and vanilla. Good.
4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
My 2700th rating. 25cl bottle at KBH-Festival, 2009. Waaauw. This kind of reminds me of nogne ø’s, dark horizon 1st. edition. Pours pitch black with a creamy brown head and lacings. Oily, slick, vinous, smooth and phat palate. Lots of coffee, vanilla and chocolate. Well balanced and overall just very complex and tasty. Alcohol well hidden considering its 16%. Lovely!
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