BrewDog / Nøgne Ø Mikkeller Black Tokyo* Horizon

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Imperial Stout
Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle 330ml.

Dark black black colour with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, light brown head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, burnt, caramel, chocolate, coffee, alcohol, light soy sauce. Flavour is heavy sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long duration, dark dark malt bitter, alcohol, sugar sweet. Body is medium to full, texture is smooth and creamy, carbonation is soft. [20111001]

Bottled. A pitch black beer with a thin dark brown head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, roasted malt, and coffee. The flavor is very sweet with notes of sugar, alcohol, roasted malt, chocolate, and wood, leading to a dry alcoholic finish. The alcohol burns down the throat.

33 cL bottle. Pours pitch black with a minimal tan head. Aroma is thick dark malty, hard roasted, light spiced and dark chocolate. Thick malty and dark deep chocolate. Thick chocolate malty, dark roasted and thick alcohol mixed with a light smoked. Dense, roasted, sweet and dark caramelish finish. Lingering smoked into the far finish.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of yespr. Pours a pitch black with a brownish head. Very sweet roast in the nose with a buttery edge. Very heavy body, sweet sweet roast, coffee and raisins with a vanilla note. Ends with a warming alcohol finish but never really boozy. Actually very pleasant. 260911

Bottled@SBWF2011. Pitch black colour, no head. Aroma is sweet imperial stout like. Flavour is rather much the same. I don’t even know what to say, you could take any of the beers in the blend, and it would give you quite much the same feeling. Good, but why bother blending these...

Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival. Very black. Aroma of plums and licorice. Sweet and hugely full bodied. Brandyishand fairly soft with loads of licorice. Not inky at all. Surprisingly good, considering my opinion of Black and the Horizons.

Bottle at home. Pitch black coloured with a medium sized beige head. Sweet and roasted aroma of soy sauce, tar, whisky and dark chocolate with notes of alcohol and hops. Sweet and roasted flavour of liquorice, dark chocolate, whisky, hops and alcohol. Roasted and warming alcoholic finish.

Bottle. Pours a black color with no head. Has a roasted malty chocolate licorice caramel aroma. Sweetish roasted malty chocolate licorice flavor with bitter hoppy hints. Has a sweetish roasted malty licorice finish with bitter hints.

To celebrate my 8600th Rating. Bottle @ Autumn Tasting, Ulfborg 2011. Pours pitch black with a small off brown head.Various strong dark coffee aromas and flavors. Oily and vinous. A bit of vanilla and fruit. Very sweet. In small doses yes. Sippable.

Courtesy of Jens (Ungstrup)
Absolute black color; the carbonation seems low, but produces a generous brown head, reucing to a thin layer. The aroma is nice but not impressive, with cardboard, roasted malt, coffee, some tobacco and leather; mild; mainly off-putting because of the cardboard.
But the flavor is fantastic; the sweetness is immediately perceived, providing a canvas for the plots of the chocolate, roasted malt, tobacco, light liquorice; it has a correct bitterness level; the alcohol is warming the mouth, but not warning the mind, as its perception is relatively hidden.
Great.