 CharlesDarwin (1380), State College, Pennsylvania, USA
May 7, 2007
12 Oz Bottle shared by cquiroga. A funk of blue goat cheese, blueberries right from the canadian shield, and a musk of black malt. I’m loving the lacto cheese character, while it could be construed as stinky. Pours deep black with a tan rim. More roquefort in the flavor, with tannic malt, cream, blackberry reduction and some roasted astringency. Ripe, is one word to use. An astounding 16% is lost amongst the sedimentary layers of inducing one too many angles of an Imperial Stout. Hops seems lost, despite profession from the bottle that the Pacific Northwest had a big influence. It’s hard to climb over the mountain of funk that stamps this beer with it’s hard to achieve uniqueness. Dark rum clambors with balsamic for a final grapple to dominate a complex flavor profile. A long awaited and pleasently surprising opportunity to taste the enigmatic beast. Keep bringing it Danes!
HenrikSoegaard (3029), Randers, Denmark
Jul 2, 2008 Bottle. This is the greatest I have ever had. Creamy light brown good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Almost perfcet malty and hoppy aroma. taste is loaded with chocolate, licorice and especially vanilla. Power power power. Long perfect finish. Great creamy palate. I wonder if it ever will get better than this......
FrankJohansen (2630), Sabro, Denmark
Jul 1, 2008 Bottle. Black colour with a huge light brown head and a good lacing. Powerful complex aroma and taste of rasted malts, coffee, licorice and port. Very, very good beer.
saxo (2153), Højbjerg, Aarhus, Denmark
Jul 1, 2008 Bottle. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, alcohol, hops, chocolate and coffee. Notes of vanilla too. Astonishing
KimJohansen (3259), Copenhagen V, Denmark
May 12, 2008 [2 years vintage - To celebrate my 1800th rating – Thanks a million yespr for making this happen!] Black with medium brown head. Sweet vinious aroma with notes of roasted malt, hops, whiskey, dark bitter chocolate and coffee. Sweet and hoppy flavor with whiskey, hard roasted malt, dark chocolate and coffee notes. Huge complexity and very well balanced. Ends with solid bitterness and warming alcohol.
yespr (6359), Copenhagen O, Denmark
May 2, 2008 33 cL bottle, huge thanks for this to Jeppe and Mikkel - I sure dont mind sharing beers with you guys when this is what you got the opportunity to acquire in return - thanks! Pours totally black with a little dense tan head. Aroma is smooth chocolate, coffe and hard roasted malt, all lifted by a dense alcohol aroma. The alcohol is slight burning in the eyes. Flavour is smooth chocolate and dense coffee with a solid alcohol note. Nice lingering roasted note. Surprisingly still sweet flavoured too. Warming finish and a dense chocolate and coffee flavour keep lasting far into the finish.
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