Monks Café Blend no.1 Uniqum

Brewed by Monks Café Stockholm
Style: Imperial Stout
Stockholm, Sweden

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle shared by Martinus, thnx! Opaque pitch black color, virtually no head, just a slight off-white to beige lacing. Smell malts, lightly roasty, something odd. Taste dark and roasted malts, a touch of alcohol and wood. A bit low bodied, a bit low on carbonation, while the finish is quite decent with some warming alcohol. Still, the beer is a bit weird imo.

Bottle thx to martinus @ joes. Pitch black colour, no real head. Smells cattle feed, roasty, sweetish, raisin, chocolate. Tastes dark chocolate, roasty and some coffee. No carbo, not silky enough, medium body.

Thanks to my Secret Santa Blomster for this one! Deep black with a tall fading head of creamy tan. Interesting aroma that combines licorice, cocoa and tobacco. Sweet up front with some bitter roast malts in the finish. Quite different from most Imperial Stouts.

Russian originalet är nog bättre möjligen. Underbar är den. Inte så stor soft.

Black with low tan head. Aroma dominated by the BCS and the whisky, lots of peats, barrel, vanilla, chocolate, coffee, melasses. A bit of an onslaught on the nose, overall pleasant but maybe a bit boozy / peaty. Taste is VERY inspired by the Mackmyra. Yes, you can taste both the BCS and the Victoria in there, yes, there’s a definite vanilla and melasses sweetness, but really, those 0.5% really come through strongly. It’s like a high end version of the old "submarine" (is that a Swedish phenomenon? Might just be...) - a shot of very nice single malt dropped into a very nice imperial stout. The end result, in any case, is interesting and tasty, but not great - as far as imperial stouts go, still a darn good beer.

UPDATED: MAR 27, 2013 Danke an Scopey. Dunkel schokoladiger Antrunk mit erkennbarem Alkohol. Witzig schokoladig, relativ starke Karbonisierung. Süffig durch die starke aber passende Süße. Haselnuss, mild hopfig. 12/12/11/11/8/11

Bottle: Thanx to Mr.Rask: Black colour, big brown head. Aroma is dominated of vanilla, smokey, woody,coffee,dark choclate, whiskey. Flavor had a nice complex mixed mouth feeling of raisins,vanilla,vanilla, portviny,dark choclate, coffee, smokey, coffee, alcy. Big body long smokey/vanilla,coffee finish.

Ar: cocoa, alcohol, prunes? Bourbon and whisky, rather sweet, jam, honey, vanilla, roastiness and coffe are there but light for the style, light notes of feces, weird but does not totally spoil the aroma. Ap: black/murky brown colour, medium light Brown head, lacing. F: rather salty, very much so, licorice, soy sauce, bourbon, coffee, chocolate, roastiness, alcohol, short but warming finish, low bitterness. P: medium body, low carbonation. T: mediocre.

25cl bottle from Systembolaget; stashed in my cupboard for 8 months. Pours black with a medium tan head. Aroma has smoke, dried prunes, licorice and some bourbon. A nice blend... 8,5 but not quite a 9. Taste is not as expressive but there is still the smoke, leather and some bourbon. Quite well balanced with low carbonation and low level of roasted tastes. Finish has more bourbon. Nice but the aroma promised more than the taste delivered.