Gourmetbryggeriet Brewers Reserve Grain Barrel Stout

Formerly brewed at Gourmetbryggeriet (Harboe)
Style: Imperial Stout
Roskilde, Denmark

Serve in Snifter

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75 cl bottle. Thanks to my friend Mike. Great black colour with a dense light brown head. Great aroma of redwine, roastedness, sweet malt and little alcohol. Very nice flavour of sweet roastedness, chocolate, vanilla, little alcohol and hints of oak and wine. Very nice mouthfeel and a roboust body. This one is a master piece, thanks Mike.

[Bottle - Launchday @ Ølbaren] Black with medium brown short lasting head. Aroma has chocolate, liquerice, coffee and roasted malt. Flavor is moderate sweet with roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, liquerice and vanilla. Short bitter end.

Bottle at ØLbaren - at launchday. Black - brown head. Nose: redwine. Light roasted, light burned, raisins, chokolate, oak, smoke, ashes, smooth body, wineous, very complex, sparkling, a bit like sparkling water, sweetness. Long lasting dry ashes & bitter finish.

Pours black with a light brown head and lacings. Smells of redwine and malts with a hint of alcohol. ’bit like a mild whiskey. Deep sweetness. Aromas of coffe and mild aromas of red wine and a bit of alcohol. Soft carbonation. Long dry finish with coffee aromas. Best GB brew ever!

Bottled. A pitch black beer with a thin brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of roasted malt, wine, and wood, as well as light notes of chocolate. The flavor is sweet malty with very strong notes of roasted malt as well as notes of wine and wood.

Blind tasting, hand bottled. A black beer with a small beige head. The aroma and taste is of roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, liqurice, very vinous and plesant, light alcoholic. Medium to full body with a long lasting, light alcoholic finish. More please!

Blind tasting @ Sk8vikings Porter / Stout tasting #11 Gourmet Bryggeriet Grain Barrel Porter <special tap in swing bottle>. Poured light brown fizzy head. Pitch black color. Aroma was quit complex, vinous and pleasant with notes of liquorish, chocolate, hint of coffee, and lots of roasted malt. Over the palate hint of berries and fruity and again this lovely chocolate feel. Very full bodied with a flat carbonation and thick texture. Moderated to heavy sweet with good counter bitterness to balance this impressive Imperial Stout. Lingering burned malty and light alcoholic finish. Lovely.

Bottle. Black coloured with a small beige head. Roasted aroma of dried fruits, chocolate and liquorice. Roasted flavour of wood, liquorice, dried fruits, chocolate and alcohol. Roasted and warming alcoholic finish.

(Hand bottle 100 cl) Courtesy of Sahlholdt. Cloudy, opaque black with a basically absent head. Very vinous and alcoholic aroma. Pleasant and smooth mouthfeel, a little low in carbonation. Slightly tart, fruity notes and some malt bitterness before a very warming almost Slivovitz-like alcohol burn in the finish. Very interesting. This really shows what brewmaster Mike Murphy is capable of when let a little loose. Good going. 070907

At the prisice of DKK 169.00 (approix. USD 33.50)) less the discount I get as a Danish Bee Enthusiast, I expect something quite extraordinary. Beer is expensive in Denmark. Do I get value for the money spent ? Her is my estimate. Bottle. Medium high brown creamy head (OK). Pitch black body body (Really black, no light through). Intensive coffee cocoa flavor (good but not especially good). Smooth soft mild round coffee flavor with a touch of cocoa and evan e bit of liquorice. Low carbonation and a long bittersweet aftertaste. The high alcohol percentage is very well hidden. Mates: Very good but way too expensive.