4.3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Norwegian wood? Norwegian beer is good! And this beer exemplifies full mouthfeely goodness. Burnt coffee/chocolate on the palate follows a foreboding appearance in the glass. All that is promised is delivered. Not for the faint of heart, mind, body or soul. mmmm
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Sorry for the german rating, but this is a lousy rating from my "newbie" time (2007-2009), and it’s not worth of being translated. I just added it for the statistics, and to complete my backlog!
Ins Glas ergießt sich das wohl schwärzeste und lichtundurchlässigste Bier, das ich in meinem Leben jemals gesehen habe. Schwärzer als die Nacht und jegliche Sphären des Weltalls. Die Krone ist sehr hoch und langlebig, cremig fein. Der Geruch: Stoutartig, absolut lakritzdominiert, holzig, leicht alkoholisch. Dann der Antrunk. Stramm röstmalzig mit rauchigen Nuancen, wieder mit viel Lakritz und bitterer Schokolade. Untermalt wird es von einer leicht alkoholischen Note, und wie JZ schon erwähnte, es erinnert doch sehr an einen Sherry. Im weiteren Verlauf ändert sich nicht mehr viel, es bleibt sehr röstig-rauchig, lediglich etwas holziger wird’s. Die Lakritz-Note gibt den Ton an. Wenn man einen Schluck etwas länger im Mund behält, wird er unglaublich rauchig-kratzig. Schwer verdaulich das Ganze, aber ein wahrer Aromen-Leckerbissen!
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 15/20
50cl bottle batch #271, bottled 19.02.2010, @ home shared with Dutchdrebus and Ansjelaah. Pitch black color, big full vast medium brown head. Smell malts, earth, coffee, mocca. Taste dark malts, coffee, mocca, some bitter, slightly hops. High, fizzy carbonation, a little bit too thin, medium body.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pitch black with a lovely mocca brown head. Smells chocolate, coffee, roasty, sharp, glue and alcohol. Tastes roasty, coffee, chocolate and nice, but also watery. Crispy texture, bit thin but still an okay palate. Good, but not great.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 17/20
Pours dark as night with a thick, bubbly, aggressive dark mocha head. Aroma is malty, creamy, fruit, berries, spicy, alcohol, licorice. Taste is dark chocolate, spicy, creamy, earthy, grass, long bitter coffee finish. Very clean flavored. Very drinkable for 9% alcohol. Far too carbonated. Aside form that, really good.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
2010 Vintage 50 cl. bottle – bottled on 19.02.2010 – batch 271 @ home – purchased @ Alvinne: pitch coffee black with a lovely huge mocha head, smells like heavily roasted malts, frozen coffee, liquorish, touch molasses, ashes, taste is initial burst of lots of ashes, scalded, burned, roasted malts, coal, followed by molasses, liquorish, raw crushed coffee, beans, aftertaste is ice-cold coffee, burned coal, over-carbonated, slightly hoppy, ash/roast bitterness, wow this is heavily carbonated, harsh beer, unrelenting like an enemy
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
500 mL bottle. Opaque, with a medium, brown head which doesn’t last long. Aroma is a little different for the style, and difficult to place. It doesn’t have the big coffee and/or chocolate that many have. Rather, there’s a spiciness accompanying the roast. Kinda interesting. Chocolate, spiciness, and booze in the flavour. Not too complex, and not as big as it should be. Not bad, though.
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
AROMA:: no matter how hard I rolled this glass i could only get roast malt and some stinky feet in the aroma
APPEARANCE: black with a fine brown head
TASTE: Wheat, roast bitterness/astringency, sweet with a malty fine finish.
PALATE: full bodied for a wheat beer. oily, with a soft carbonation. finishes slightly bitter. has that wheat linger.
OVERALL: I expected better. Maybe i have been drinking too much Mikkeller lately but this is somewhat lacking.
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