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Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition

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Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition

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An Imperial Stout formerly brewed by
Nøgne Ø

Grimstad, Norway

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3274.23/5.04.22/5.0Special16%97.4Snifter P  Stats

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This is our first edition of Dark Horizon. It is the first, for us anyway. There will be more to follow, and even though they will be other editions, they will still be firsts. “Let’s go crazy!” said Tore. The last time he said that, we created #100, which proved to be a success. How could I not agree to his suggestion? “How crazy can we be?” I responded. “Go all the way!” he answered. So we started off with a beefed up Imperial Stout, extra dark and extra bitter, not much to it really, but maybe a bit over the top. When this brew had fermented, we gathered again on a sunny Saturday morning, ready for next move. Half a ton of demerara sugars and our homemade extract of coffee were waiting for us. Standing there with sticky sugars all over the brewery and us, I just couldn’t resist asking Tore: “Don’t you have better things to do during week ends?” To this point he still hasn’t answered me. After adding a hefty volume of wine yeast, we left this brew to itself for month. A good month, that was.

This is ale; it is also a wine, and a coffee drink. We’ve been playful and brewed a hybrid. Do yourself and your friends a favour and share this bottle with those you deem worthy. Dark Horizon is indeed a global brew. Inspiration from the US Midwest, malt from England, bottles from Germany, name from Japan, sugars from Mauritius, hops from the Pacific rim, Yeast from Canada, coffee from Colombia, brewed in Grimstad, Norway.

All bottles of Dark Horizon are numbered with its unique number, and all together we launched 6000 of this brew.

37 P, 75 IBU, 16% ABV.

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 Ungstrup (11378), Frederiksberg, Denmark
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/517/20
Jul 29, 2007  
[To celebrate my rating number 8700 I drink the presently 10th highest rated beer] Bottled. A pitch black with a fast disappearing brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of malt, alcohol, soy sauce, coffee and chocolate, the alcohol stings in the nose. The flavor is powerful and quite sweet with notes of roasted malt, alcohol, chocolate, coffee, and prunes, leading to a thick finish with a hint of alcohol, which burns slightly in the throat.


 omhper (10728), Stockholm, Sweden
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/102/514/20
May 17, 2007    Updated: Jul 1, 2007
Bottled at Københavnske Øldage. Black!! Intense aroma of plum brandy and licorice. Sweet and extremely full bodied. Syrupy, but tar and licorice dominates. Thick and chewy, mature madeira flavours. Long tarry very bitter finish. Has great potential for aging - can become something really outstanding. As of now it is still young, sweet and a bit sugary, which detracts from the very interesting flavour.


 Papsoe (10459), Frederiksberg, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Jul 9, 2007    Updated: Sep 9, 2007
(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of Myrup. Pours completely opaque black with a dense, light brown head. Aroma of burned malt and alcohol. Very full-bodied with plenty of roasted malt and coffee accents. Very sweet fruit notes and then an overpowering, burning alcohol - way too alcoholic. I wonder if this would improve some with cellaring - perhaps making it more subtle and mellow. 080707 and 070907


 yespr (6889), Copenhagen O, Denmark
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/516/20
May 30, 2007    Updated: Sep 9, 2007
CBF07 sample from bottle poured by the brewer himself. Pours pitch black with a nice creamy head. Aroma of liqourice and chocolate, alcohol notes beneath. Vague malt profile. Mouthfeel is thick oily. Flavours is a lot of dark notes: coffee, dark chocolate. Softness of the chocolate blends into a strong bitterness lasting long into the finish. Toffee sweetness, alcohol and strong bitterness makes the finish very long lasting.9-5-9-5-18 4.6

Blind tasting at sk8vikings porter / stout tasting, beer no 21. Pours black with a lacing brown head. Slight alcohol aroma with buttery note. Light smoked. Quite sweet , slight dried fruit flavour. Sight alcohol finish with a persisting roasted to chocolate malt flavour. 6-4-7-4-14 3.5

Also tasted at one of Papsoes tastings, that and the blind tasting did not come near to the first sample, as a consequence the score is changed to the average of the first sample and the two others combined. 7-5-8-4-16 4


 joergen (6529), Frederiksberg, Denmark
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/59/104/517/20
May 11, 2007  
Bottle, thanks to sk8viking for sharing. Black coloured with a beige head. Sweet roasted aroma of dried fruits. Roasted flavour of liquorice with notes of dried fruits and hops.



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