 Sregnar35 (729), Rotterdam, New York, USA
Oct 28, 2006 Super dark. Poured the thickest jet black ever. Had a tan head. Aroma was very sour and alcoholic. Flavor was very sour and and bitter, very strong.
sheatripper (863), Brooklyn, New York, USA
Oct 26, 2006 2000 bottle. Dark and very murky brown/black with no head. Looks like crude oil. Aroma of dark dried fruit-prune, raisin- with roasted and charred chocolate and coffee malt, port wine and licorice. Didn’t like the flavor at all. Sludgey, muddy, sour, medicinal and overall not pleasant. I kept imagining being stuck in the jungle with malaria and drinking some fermented bark and toxic berry potion mixed up by a witch doctor. I guess if I was into fortified wines like port or sherry I might have a better appreciation for this one. However, this is not my personal idea of beer.
ogivlado (3036), Zagreb, Croatia
Oct 25, 2006 Thanks Doggythedog for sharing this with me.
Bottled(330ml). –Deep black coloured, almost no head maybe because of ages, cherry port nose. Strong roasted coffee and licorice aroma with notes of dark chocolate. Slight salty and smoked hints. Sharp sour finish. It’s pity that I haven’t tried this beer at least year or two earlier. 2001 vintage
Gr0ve (1382), Oslo, Norway
Oct 20, 2006 11.2 fl oz bottle. 2001 vintage. Pitch black with a small brown head. Sourish brett aroma, a little roastedness. Nutty sourness. Rose petals. Drying spices. Laurels and timian. Very intense. Well-covered alcohol potency. Quite sharp spicy aroma and flavours. Dynamite flavour. Engine oil. Even more brettanomyces. It cannot get more pungent and intense than this. It’s definitely got an attitude. Sourish roasted flavours in the finish. Licorice and chocolate oilyness. This is a great complex beer. I can well understand why most people don’t like it. I love it.
Doggythedog (1541), Split, Croatia
Oct 19, 2006 Bottle (12/12) courtesy of Papsoe (thanks!), shared with ozujsko
Harvey’s Imperial Extra Double Stout 2001
I couldn’t wait to try this one... The cork came out without as much fuss as those "pressurized bottle" made us thought, and yes, it was flat, pitch black, with only tiny remnants of what would’ve been a brown head a few years ago. It smelled nice and interesting; port, dry figs, and primarily our Griotte candy (chocolate, filled with cherry brandy). I loved it, and went to drink it with great expectations. And then it hit me... it was so damn salty I made a face. Soy sauce, tobacco ash, coffee, some sourness, touch of cinnamon, plum brandy.... too damn salty. Like someone dissolved a teaspoon of salt in it. I love salty food, but... nah. If I had it in Split, not in Zagreb with ozujsko, I would’ve probably given most of it to my mother to use instead of tamari sauce... I’ll try a fresh(er) sample again... right now I feel as I’ve overrated it.
ontario102 (794), Boise, Idaho, USA
Oct 15, 2006 5 Years old (2001 bottle): Dead pour; vinous, licorice, must, and cobwebs in the nose, some peppery and oxitive/papery notes; earthy flavor with coffee, sherry, and roasted malt; salty, sour, grapey cardboard finish. Past its prime.
Hansen (2235), Randers, Denmark
Oct 15, 2006 Real hard to rate. Is it sour? is it liquid laqurice? Is it Worchester-sauce? Jet-black. Low, brown head. Sourness and oak in the aroma. Palate is thick like syrup.
xproudfoot (729), Paleolithic, Pennsylvania, USA
Oct 14, 2006 Aroma of apple fuel, barleywinish overpowering licorice bacteria. jet black beer with a few dark rim bubbles.. seems to stain the glass, takes several rinses to wash the color out later. Teh flavor is absolutely putrid and disgusting, like bitter, sickening medicine, infection scab disgusting. sweet and sour both overpoweringly so and with unnatural flavors that my stomach rejects. the worst thing I’ve had in my mouth since starting beer tasting.
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