3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Big brown head. Opaque black body. Roasty chocolate and honey aroma with milky whisky and smoke notes. Dry-sweet chocolate whisky and honey taste with vanilla notes. Fullish body. Mild, smooth, round mouthfeel. Dry-sweet vanilla, wood and smoke aftertaste with alcoholic licorice notes. Long finish. Excellent! Lovely balance and harmony. (0.05l sample at Haand 2012.)
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
Keg at Haand beer festival 2012. Pitch black colour with no head. Aroma is sweet with notes of vanilla, sugar, cognac, roasted malts, coffee and liqorice. Flavour is also sweet and intense. Notes of cognaq, oak, coffee, liqorice and vanilla. Just wonderful.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
25cl bottle shared at Akkurat. Poured in a stemmed glass. Looks deep, dark, pitch-black like the dead of night. A few bubbles. Smells of cognac mostly, but notes of roasted malted, chocolate, vanilla, oak, and toffee. Bold.
Holy cognac on the taste! Along with this there is a nice oak, dark chocolate, roasted malt, and caramelized brown sugar balance here, but a bit too sweet for my liking. Full bodied with almost zero carbonation. I think it could age a bit longer to mellow out the cognac/oak, but then again based on my discussion with the bartender at Akkurat, they can’t keep these around long enough to age.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
From keg at Haand festival. Pours pitch black with a small tanned head. Aroma is sweet, vanilla,alcohol, malts. Taste is smooth, concentrated malts with some alcohol. Medium bitter, alcohol burn at the end.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Keg at Haandbryggeriet festival 2012.
Intense cognac aroma, then a smooth imperial stout underneath. The kick returns in the finish. Coffee, molasses, tar.
4.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
On tap@M-ö Brygghus. Black with no head. Malty with fruity notes. Malt, fruit, alcohol and chocolate. Full body with a long, bitter sweet finish. Very nice !
4.6 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 18/20
On tap at Haand Festival 2012
Black, thin espresso head, nice laces. Smells of liquorice, oak, coffee, roasted malts and cognac. Taste is super duper malty, heavy sweetness, liquorice, coffee, some smoke and brown sugar. Super oily feel, full body, flat carbonation. Nice bitter finish, bitter chocolate. This beer is just fantastic, another fine Stormaktsporter
4.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Tap @ Haand festival.
Poor very dark, with a small dark and brown head, that lasts for ages.
Aroma of coffee, chocolate, slight licorice, bandy, wood and oatmeal.
Taste a little sweet, with a slight bitterness.
Full bodied, with a soft carbonation. This beer is very nice, complex, and ever so smooth.
4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
On tap at HaandBryggeriet Beer Festival, Drammen. Pitch black colour, brown head. Lovely complex aroma, cognac, oak, vanilla, roasty notes (coffee, liquorice). Excellent flavour, medium sweet and distinctly roasty, notes of cognac, oak, coffee, caramel and liquorice. Top notch!
4.7 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Tasted at haand festival in drammen. One of the best beers ive ever tasted. Well balanced, great color. Very enjoyable.
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