Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter Very Special Extra Edition 2008

Formerly brewed at Närke Kulturbryggeri
Style: Imperial Stout
Örebro, Sweden

Serve in Snifter

Etwas medizinischer Geruch mit komplexer Malznote. Wenig rauchiger und scharf alkoholischer Antrunk, das komplexe Malz befindet sich eher im Hintergrund. Voluminös ist es dennoch, spätestene im Mittelteil, wenn das Malz in den Vordergrund kommt und die Macht übernimmt. Die Rauchigkeit ist nun das prägende und unterstützende Hintergrundaroma. Volltreffer!! 11/13/13/13//13

UPDATED: JAN 10, 2012 11.2 oz bottle into my Rochefort glass...lost review but the score is accurate

Bottle… This beer rocks!... Pitch black ale with a mid-sized, creamy, brown head. The nose is of rich milk chocolate and coconut with a small dose of peaty smoke. The flavor offers terrific balance between sweet chocolate malts, oaken whiskey and modest burnt bitterness. Full-bodied and creamy with tingly carbonation. Burnt, bitter, lightly smoky, chocolate finish. World class brew!

Basically regular kaggen with added smoke and peat, very nice and well integrated.

Sampled at SBWF09 Black. Small beige head. Fresh and vinous aroma with juniper-berries. Light woody notes; balanced with oak and vanilla. Some chocolate as well.

At SBWF 2009. Black colored beer with a brown head. Kinda mild aroma, milky, malty with some whisky. Huge malty whisky flavor, oak, wood, dryish, chocolate and cocoa. Not as good as the original Kaggen, but still a good beer.

Draught @ Borefts Beer Festival 2009 - De Molen.
Unclear dark dark brown almost black color with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, dark chocolate, caramel, smoke - peat, wood, light earth, honey ? Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily and creamy, carbonation is soft to flat. A Kaggen with extra smoke notes ! I prefere the original Kaggen ;O) but I also like this one very much .. world class beers from Närke. [20091030]

Tap at De Molen 2009 event ... Black ... nice roast ... lots fo chocolate malt nose ... again lots of chocolate ... little woody ... little smoke in linger ... little bitter in linger ...