Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter

Bottle 2006 vintage: Pours black with a small creamy tan head. Aroma, oak and some boozy notes, vanilla, chocolate, and some toffee. Flavor, woody and roasty up front, chocolate, toffee and vanilla round it out, some dark fruits, and a bit of ash, some coffee like bitterness. It finishes with some bready and boozy notes. Twas pretty good. Thanks to the Columbus guys for sharing.

2006 version. Pitch black with a brown creamy head. Coffee, chocolate, fruit, wood and hops in perfect balance. So complex

aroma of cream whisky and a wonderful espresso truffle nose. Almost no head but what reamains clings to the sides In micro bubbles. The ballanced is more than great it is trancendent. It is a strong brew for the true beer drinker yet it has ellenents of a childs chocolate drink or an Irish cream or white Russian. The components are, many pot du cream roasted sugars and Devon cream, if espresso were crema this would be the crema. Much better than the westvaletern. And at 250 sen it should be. Who nears to eat when you can drink this. i could expand on the. Notes but better to spend time in harrods food halls or any fine chocolutire or fine coffee roaster for that matter. Goes down as smooth as the finish. Well I should stop writing and enjoy.

2006 version bottle at Rover 2008-02-08. Pitch black and a little brown head. Fudge, oak, chocolate, kind of sweet scent. Also coffee and some smoke. All of this in a very long aftertaste makes a perfect finish for a very pleasant drink. Lean back and enjoy!

2006 vintage Huge, dense, very dark-greige head over jet-black beer. Some shards of lace despite all alcohol. Superb winey, vinous nose, with nuts, cocos, moccha, cacao, whisky, rum, dark fruit, fuselalcohols, fresh vanilla and new oak barrels. Impressive. Chocolate flavourS - mix of milkchocolate and full black; rum, but a better kind than I’ve ever tasted; surprisingly sweet, with a vanilla icecream touch, plus a good dot of moccha icecream. Dark rock candi sugar, very little wood, but lots of ethanol & higher alcohols. Liquid black chocolate on rumliqueur. WITH raisins drenched in honey. Utterly viscous, slick as none, soothing best bar none.
Comparing this to Westvleteren is utter nonsense. I never believed in the idea "dessert beer" - until now. Westvleteren is (superb) beer, full stop. Thomas D, eternal gratitude!

2006. Been waiting for a while for this one. Dark milk and bitter chocolate, toasted vanilla initially on the nose. Creamy peanut butter. A big alcohol presence that kind of distracts a bit. Pours nearly black as night with a thick dark khaki head leaving spotty lacing and a nice yellow film after a gentle swirl. Roasted malt and toasted marshmallow on the tongue initially.Bitter chocolate. Some dried vanilla, a touch of soy, peanut butter and an underlying fusel alcohol note that distracts from the overall essence of the beer. Viscous and chewy mouthfeel. An excellent example of the style... if only I could get beyond that fusel alcohol... Thanks so very much for this awesomely rare treat Brad!

Poured from a nip sized 7 oz or so bottle; vintage 2006 thanks to Tyler. Dark chocolate colored pour with a thin ring of golden brown. Aroma of heavy bourbon; coconut, vanilla, honey, and brisket. Hints of strawberry, raspberry, some mulch, and scotch malt. Limited in dimensions. Flavors brings lots of bourbon influence again with vanilla and pistachio frostings; delicate and nuanced with coconut, sweet vegetables and wood. Simple, straightforward, and laid back. Meaty, sugary with wine impartation and mildy salty. Palate is tinny and soft with tepid carbonation and a full, velvety texture. Balanced; smooth, with some citrus sugars and honey-blended espresso in the finish. Somewhat underwhelming, but irrefutably well made and delicately done.

Dark black with tan thin head. Aroma of chocolate and oak. Damn this is good, and I say that expecting to be let down as though this beer was all hype. Has a bit of a strange flavour for an imperial stout but it’s really fantastic. Full creamy and chewy body with a nice light feeling with the carbonation despite the coating ability of this thicker stout. Missing is the sometimes annoying charred bitter and astringent malt character, surprising given the coffee flavour towards the end. Finishes out with chocolate and a bit of soy. Really well done and a very good stout.