Dugges 1/2 Idjit!

Brewed by Dugges Ale & Porterbryggeri
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Mölndal, Sweden

Serve in Snifter

Bottle from Liquor Loft. Chocolate roasted malt aroma. Burnt coffee and licorice in the taste. Also brown sugar, smoke, bread and salt. Low carbonation in slick thinnish texture. Lots going on - not my thing though.

UPDATED: AUG 10, 2011 Bottle. Almost black with a tan or cappuccino head. Aroma: roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, licorice. Taste: chocolate, licorice, coffee, some wine gums, a slight acidity, but not on the same level as some other bottles I’ve had. Smooth, above medium-bodied. Raised this from 3.7.

Draft at The Bishops Arms (Vasagatan). Pours dark brown with tan head. Aroma of roasted malts and coffee and chocolate. Same in flavor with more fruit and a dry finish. (Rated 2011/04/20)

Thin, sweet and fruity. This is not what I like in an imperial porter. There’s some chocolate and caramel, but it’s dominated by weak fruity malt flavors - apricot, plum, raisin - and odd spices, like licorice. I had high hopes for my first Dugges beer, but this one failed to come through (as did the second, actually). Mouthfeel was thin and watery. Aroma was light.

Bottle. Very dark brown with small tan head. Flavour is roasted malts, dry, sweet, chocolate, dark fruit, little bitter and a little coffee.

Pours dark ruby brown with a beige head. Aroma is coffee, espresso, chocolate, dark fruits, toasted caramel, irish coffee and vanilla. Taste is the same along with some roasted bitterness, cocoa and a flat dry mouthfeel.

Sample from bottle, CBF 2011. Black colour with small beige head. Strong coffee aromas, espresso, salt licorice and burned maltiness. Dry coffee and cocoa flavor, espresso, somewhat vinous finish. Nice and balanced beer.

Bottle. Dark cola colored brown. Short, frothy brown head. Soy, coffee, dark chocolate, roasted malt, and earthy hops. Taste is dark chocolate, bitter coffee, roasted malt, earthy hops, chocolate mint, ash and oily coffee beans. Body is medium but with a thinner, bubbly carbonation. Finishes with dark fruit, chocolate, roasted malt, oily coffee beans, melon, earthy hops, soy, and bitter coffee.