Haandbryggeriet Odin’s Tipple

Brewed by Haandbryggeriet (Norway)
Style: Imperial Stout
Drammen, Norway

Serve in Snifter

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maybe the best imperial stout i’ve ever had. looks like an ordinary impy, smells a bit better, sweet and roasty with a coffee chocolate inviting scent that is a fucking joy. smells like motherfucking s’mores. damn. i can taste the alcohol with the mellow dark chocolate, and it is good, roast is just right with a warm half finished cup of coffee with vanilla and whiskey. straight forward clean and delicious. right amount of sweetness, right amount of roast, right amount of bitter, this beer is all the right shit, and if the description is correct is not a kitchen sink beer, maybe more folks should streamline their recipes. i’m glad whoever designed this one did. 5 10 10 5 20

Pours a rich black sable with a dark tan head - what I got was rather thin, but this was an artifact of the way it was poured. I’m sure a first pour would have yielded a nice thick head. Aroma fills the nose with rich chocolate, fine coffee, and nutty and molasses hints. Excellent flavor is like a high-quality mocha, fine chocolate and high-quality coffee; it is sweet but not cloying with nutty and molasses undertones. Texture is thick, smooth, oily and fizzy, leaving a tingly and slightly sweet finish. A real winner!

Odin’s Tipple is decadent. It lacks complexity but that is a good thing. It is simply decadent. The aroma is less boozy than expected and has a very welcoming malt character. The finish is silky perfection.

500ml bottle. It pours thick and black and it would not look out of place being poured into your engine. Coats the side of the glass and carries a caramel coloured head that settles quickly. Weighty in the glass so you know it is going to be good. Rich deep chocolate aroma with coffee and toffee thrown in. Thick in the mouth as you would expect, almost syrupy. Smooth burnt toffee and chocolate flavours . Long and sweet on the palate. Odin would be pleasewd with this one.

A very intense flavoured beer. Complex and inky! This was my dessert!

Dark as motor oil at midnight, slight and rapidly diminishing head. Powerful taste of dark fruits and perhaps nutmeg. Wonderful dark beer.

By Odin’s Grey Beard! Some sort of Wizardry had me seeing flying chariots 5 hours after consumption! The darkest stout I’ve had yet, if you set it next to a pint of used motor oil, I’m not sure you could tell the difference, but thats a good thing in my book! The Blacker the Better!

Poured into a snifter. Batch 277, brewed 27/3/2010. 4.0 A: Wow is this black. I thought I knew what black is, but apparently I had no clue. The head on this is also the darkest I’ve ever seen. It’s dark brown and there was initially a good three fingers of it. Mainly frothy with good retention, but not much in terms of lacing. 5.0 S: This sure as hell is interesting. The wild yeast doesn’t really give a funk in the normal sense, but it does give flavors that I can say that I’ve never had. It’s like a rancid chocolate (if that can even happen), but it isn’t at all unpleasing. Or maybe a tangy earthiness is more appropriate. Either way, it’s wonderful. Otherwise, this is quite sweet with tons of chocolate and caramel. An ever so light roastiness helps to add balance along with touches of peat and chicory. 4.5 T: The taste is just as wonderful. Bold, rich chocolate throughout. Sweet with caramel, but not cloying in the least. Rather, the sweetness can be likened to biting into an overripe plum. Again a light roastiness. Hints of coffee with some chicory in there. The "earthy tanginess" is back and adds several layers of complexity and ties all the other flavors together. 5.0 M: Just made it to heavy body. Good moderate carbonation. Good creaminess and incredibly smooth for a beer this big. No hints of alcohol at any point. 5.0 D: This is simply a fantastic brew. Aside from the wild yeast, it seems pretty simple, but it is so incredibly tasty and smooth. I wish more US breweries would start leaning toward this kind of brewing instead of making over-hyped, over-rated, overly cloying messes. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 05-05-2011 23:34:32

Thanks to Tytoanderso for this! Pours black as can be with a moderate to small BROWN head, about as dark as beer gets. Aroma is lovely and deep with chocolate truffles, unsweetened chocolate, licorice, espresso, coffee beans, nuts, and port. Flavor begins with a big whallup of cocoa, dark chocolate, espresso, fudge, and truffle dust, mixed in with a slight vinous note, and a fruity licorice quality. Finish dries out big time with roasted nuts, coffee, earth, and more cocoa/chocolate truffle dusting. Palate is quite interesting, very chewy, but not sugary or sticky and the carbonation is a little high and the alcohol is present. Seems thick in one way while thin in another. Nonetheless, this beer is damn fascinating in every respect and really enjoyable. Wild yeast? Not sure what they mean, but this is a damn good imperial stout that rivals Expedition, 110k+OT and the like.

At just on cool and into a snifter. The appearance of motor oil from an ol’ wreck is the look from the pour; oily, viscous, opaque and jet black in appearance with no head bar a brown scum on the meniscus. So smoky and layered in gooey toffee, rich chocolate, Kopiko candy, salted fish?, leather, marzipan and roasted coffee beans is the strong and vibrant waft from the glass, sultry. Just contorts the mouth into spasms when it hits, this is pretty much engine oil and that Odin, well, he must have been a hard f%^ker. Body is thick, viscous and the alcohol is as shy as a Bangkok ping-pong lady, really warms and burns on the way down in such a good way (not the ping pong lady, the alcohol!). Milk chocolate, rich, syrupy vanilla mud-cake, smoked fish like the nose and fresh strapped leather, really piercing amount of almond liqueur, this stuff just sticks around like glue. Like velvet in feel as it slips on passed the tonsils, smoke trails emitted all the way. There is lashings of treacle and Worcestershire sauce, maybe that’s the smoked fish!, and bitter, burnt coffee beans late. I just loved this stuff. Boozy, slow drinker. Not overly complex, but an honest groundbreaker of a beer. Absolutely lovely!!! (50cL, batch 349, brewed 15/03/11, Mane Liquor, Belmont)