Grauballe Natravnen

Brewed by Grauballe Bryghus
Style: Imperial Stout
Silkeborg, Denmark

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle. It pours a minimal sized beige head over a lighlty unclear dark brown body. Sweetish, almost cough syrup like aroma with a nice grassy, citrusy hoppyness. Oxidation and dark dried fruits. Full body, sweetish and softly carbonated. Some alcohol warmth. Lots of sweetish, roasted oxidized malts, with some chocolate and a pleasant hoppyness. Not much bitterness though, or it disappeares in the sweetness. Some warmth in the finish. Well, it feels more or less like a dark English style barley wine than like an imperial stout. 130516

Bottle.Pours dark brown with an off-white head. Aroma of malt, grains, caramel, bread and biscuits. Flavor is sweet and oxidized malt with caramel, nuts, some chocolate, dried fruits and warming alcohol. Full body, soft carbonation.

Bottle 330ml @ Geokkjer
Pours dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma has notes malt, caramel, nuts, dried fruits hint of chocolate and oxidized. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and medium bitter. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. More like a dark barley wine than imp stout.

Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium to dark red brown colour with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roastd, caramel, chocolate, sweet malt, brown sugar. Flavour is light heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, roasted, dusty hops, BW alike, light chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120915]

Bottle from Metro, Glostrup. Balck with an beige head. Aroma and flavour of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, caramel, fruit and hops.

Bottle @ome. Pours dark brown with a small fluffy offwhite head. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, brown sugar, hints of chocolate, just a hint of sweet dark fruits. Flavor of roasted malts, caramel, slightly burnt brown sugar, toffee, some bitter fruity hops. Medium body, soft carbonation, sweet with a slightly bitter finish. 261212

Bottle thanks to Ken at the 0-65% tasting. It pours deep cloudy ruby-brown with a thin beige head. The nose is roasted malt, coffee, caramel, sticky sweetness, chocolate, fudge and ovaltine. The taste is sweet chocolate, caramel, fudge, dull bitterness, wood, umami aspect, light astringency and alcohol warmth that creeps up on you. Finishes sweet. Medium body, fine carbonation and soft mouth-feel. Too sweet for my particular tastes.

Bottle at the 0-65% Tasting, London - thanks to Kenneth. Pours murky brown with a fine, tan cream head. Dark, bready malt nose, hints of age, deep dark sugars. Big sweet flavor with rich bread, moderate chocolate, light roast, brown sugar. Full bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly warming on the finish with dark sugars, chocolate. Good.

11th December 2012
The 0-65 tasting. Four guys, fourteen beers, average abv 12.9%, 65 mins! Almost opaque dark brown beer, little pale tan head. Super smooth light palate. Very light for it’s abv. Semi sweet dark malts, quite smooth. A little vanilla and milk chocolate. Subtle dark fruits underneath. Pleasant and easy going.

Bottle @ The 0-65% Tasting. Cheers, Ken! The pour’s deep reddish brown with a medium tan head. The nose is red berry, brown, sugar, earthy tree sap and light pepper. The taste is red berry pit, some wild berry and wood. Very sweet brown sugar finish. Slightly oily, big beer. Overall, this certainly didn’t taste much like and imperial stout to me. Still, it’s nice, if sweet.