Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter

Bottle. 2006 version at Den Tatoverede Enke. Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Powerfull vanilla and honey notes, no smoke. Moderate bitter flavor. Strong caramellic notes, almost "Bailey-like". Fantastic long moderate bitter finish. Exstremely creamy wonderfull palate. To strong caramellic notes too become truly fantastic, but really great stuff. Way too expensive!

Bottle at "den tatoverede enke". Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste wonderful. Lots of licorice, roast malt and chocolate mixed with honeylike sweetness and wood.

Bottle shared with extreme generosity by jjpm74. Poured dark brown with light ruby highlites and a small creamy brown head. Already much lighter than what I expected from what was purported to be an imperial stout. Rich sweet aroma of dark bittersweet chocolate, butterscotch, and brown sugar. Taste is sweet chocolate, a bit of woodiness, and some floral essences in alcohol, finishing more towards roasted coffee. Although the alcohol is present, this does not taste like a 10% beer at all, as the flavors and the body almost have a delicate feel to them. Very nice combination of bitter and sweet leads me to think that this would be an excellent dessert beer. What Dark Lord gets right in being big, this beer does in being refined. Though I could not call it a stout, I would say it is arguably the finest porter I’ve ever tasted.
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Many thanks to Per for hooking me up with a bottle of this beer. Pours dark brown with red hints and a light brown head. Smells of fruit, spices, chocolate, hints of oak and cherries, boozy in a complimentary way, caramel. Tastes of chocolate, dark fruit, hints of warming alcohol, lots of burnt coffee hints, caramel, dry oak, charcoal. Mouthfeel is oily and slick and the finish on ths one yields a nice oak character. I could easily drink this all winter if I were local to one of the places that sell it.

2006. Provided by kmweaver. Pitch black body with a tiny tan head - fades to a cover. The nose is very sweet and vinous with licorice, molasses, plums, dark chocolate, roast, light ash, light berry and some alcohol. The flavor is very sweet, extremely low bitterness with honey, molasses, caramel, chocolate, licorice, rum, roast, cola and vanilla. Full body is sticky with soft carbonation and a warm finish that is a bit thin. Very average Imperial Stout, though barrel aging is well done.

Bottle at Bishop’s Arms, Karlstad, Sweden. This is art! Not bloody beer. Fantastic honey/toffee/chocolate flavor with unimaginary nice taste. This is not bollocks! You CAN’T have a better beer than this IMO. I won’t ever forget the wonderful taste, one can only hope to get the chance to taste it again.

Bottle at Bishops Arms, Karlstad, Sweden, 2008/01/23. To be honest, I’m a beginner when it comes to beer. But this is, definitely, the best beer I’ve tasted. I don’t no what to say, but if there is one beer in the world, which deserves the highest rating, I think this is the one. Fantastic, sweet flavor with a huge taste of chocolate, toffee, vanilla, honey, etc. Now I can die happy.

Bottle at Bishops Arms, Karlstad, Sweden, 2008/05/17. I had this beer a second time. Sadly it happened to be Bishops last bottle (2006 version). Did I "hype" this brew the first time? Hell no! It was bloody amazing again. The beer is extremely well-balanced. Aroma is amazing... I could smell this all day long. Wonderful chocolate and vanilla aromas here. Flavour of chocolate, caramel, toffe, honey and vanilla, exactly as I remembered it. It also had som plesant fruity notes, as far as I remembered. Mothfeel was thick, creamy and smooth. If I was honored to have this once, having it twice was far beyond my own imagination. Hopefully I find it again someday, but one can’t be sure about that.

Årgång 2006. Massive black with brownish head. Deep spicy aroma, sweet taste with hints of spices and alcohol. Big body. Light carbonation. A great stout overall and suits perfect as 250 ml bottle.