Nils Oscar Imperial Stout

Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Foreign Stout
Nyköping, Sweden

Pours very dark brown, nearly black, with a 1 cm tall tan head. Roasted coffee, vanilla, brown sugar, barley, cocoa, and cream. The nose is deceptive as the taste is more bitter than advertised. A solid amount of chocolate and coffee, but the resiny hops come out. Just enough to let you know they are there. Good caramel, vanilla, walnut, and oats in there as well. Very good representative of the style.

Courtesy of Gillard. Pours dark brown with thin mocha head. The aroma is roasty with mildly burnt malts that nearly manage to cover up some faint molasses. It is fairly rich in aroma but on the mild side in strength. The taste is rich and roasty followed by mild burnt malts and sweet molasses. There’s also a thin layer of caramel and nuttiness in there too. A bit thin for the style especially side by side tonight with Dark Lord, Darkness, Boris The Crusher and Witch Doctor.

Bottle, 2003 vintage. A dark, dark brown beer with a ruby tint. Small, dense, beige head. The aroma has a pleasant touch of oxidation, coffee and chocolate. Quite lovely. Mocha, chocolate, dark coffee, some meaty notes and a touch of oxidation in the mouth. Dry and full-bodied. A delicious result from 5 years of cellaring. Rating: 7-4-8-4-15-3.8. (081229)

Bottle. It pours a lovely black body topped by a dense beige to tan head. Nice lacings too. The beer is more flavorful than I remember, and the aroma likewise. A bit thin though. There’s a lot of darkness in the aroma, with quite evident licorice, as well as roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Good dash of sweetness too. It feels full-bodied at first sip, but it isn’t so full. Quite stickysweet though, and not so dry, even though there’s mocha, coffee and roasted malts. Some faint chocolate too. I would like more hoppy bitterness and some fruityness in the beer, as it is quite low on that. The alcohol can be detected, and gives a little warmth, but it sure isn’t forcing itselves through. It’s a surprisingly easy drinkable beer, but considering it’s 7% ABV, not a session beer. The sweetness of it also suggests it’s not a session beer, and it’s still a little weak if you’re looking for a real treat by the fireplace in the winter, or as a nightcap on a hot summer evening. Guess that leaves it somewhere in the middle, not that I know what that would be. Maybe the last beer before leaving the pub? (080605)

Bottle of Swedish beer n celebration of Red Wings winnin StanleyCup! Darl brown body with cream, roasted malt and chocolate aromas. Flavor is isfairly creamy with chocolate and roasted malt undrtones and a little bit of a stale coffee aftertaste. My complaint is that it is a bit thin and weakly bodied before coffee aftertase sets in.. Stil, very good. Go Wings!!!!

Pours a dark brown to black, though not impenetrable, with a light brown head, fading. The nose is full of roast and soem sweeter chocolate. A bit of anise. Full. Some small hint of smoke. No fruit in there, not like most foreign stouts. Fuller though not viscous or overcarbonated. Nice. Sweet roast chocolate. Some smoke. A bit of fruit. Lingering fruity smoke. A bit like Kalamazoo stout, though decidedly bigger.

Draught beer. Dark reddish brown colour. Strong taste. Some hints of chocolate and coffee mocca in the taste.

Bottled. Beer is very dark brown, nearly opaque. Head is large, tan, frothy/creamy; slowly and mostly diminishing.<P>The aroma is malty with moderate/heavy notes of deeply roasted grain, black coffee, lighter notes of milk and cookies, chocolate; Hoppy with a moderate note of resin/pine, light floral note; Yeasty with a light/moderate note of damp basement floor; Light/moderate miscellaneous notes of plumy raisin, alcohol, trace note of smoky licorice at the open.<P>The flavor is moderately sweet, moderately bitter, lightly acidic with a long, light/moderately acidic, lightly sweet, lightly/moderately bitter finish.<P>The body is medium, the texture is watery/velvety and the carbonation is average.<P>Round and plush. Earthy and smoky. Quite nice.

Black with small beige head. a bit thin for me. roasted coffee chocolate very nice, delicious