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Nils Oscar Imperial Stout

Nils Oscar Imperial Stout - Foreign Stout

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 Percentile 
97
overall
Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Foreign Stout

Nyköping, Sweden

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
4613.77/5.03.76/5.07%95.3Snifter, Tulip
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Commercial Description:
Nils Oscar Imperial Stout is brewed only in a limited edition. Also Nils Oscar Imperial Stout was awarded as the best beer in the world. This beer is brewed with many varieties of hops and malt, nothing saved to make the stout full of character. Imperial Stout is best enjoyed combined with the dessert but works wonderfully with oysters. The Nils Oscar Imperial Stout can be enjoyed today but preferably mature a couple of years.
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 yngwie (4880), Kristiansand, Norway
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/103/515/20
Jun 5, 2008    Updated: Feb 27, 2009
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)


 MrBunn (1520), Western, Pennsylvania, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/515/20
Jun 4, 2008  
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!!!!


 pnista (1008), Bloomington, Indiana, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jun 4, 2008  
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.


 JK54B (913), Helsinki, Finland
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Jun 3, 2008  
Draught beer. Dark reddish brown colour. Strong taste. Some hints of chocolate and coffee mocca in the taste.


 luckygirl (1221), Boulder, Colorado, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Jun 2, 2008  
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.


 liinis (695), Helsinki, Finland
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jun 1, 2008  
Black with small beige head. a bit thin for me. roasted coffee chocolate very nice, delicious


 lassem (296), Copenhagen, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/58/104/516/20
May 31, 2008  
Bottle 50 cl. No head to the almost black body. The flavour is quite singular but huge with hints of rust, roasted malts, caramels and roasted coffee. The palete has a creamy and oily feeling to it. The nose is according to my gf a bit similar to burned plastic witch I find quite accurate


 Syd (888), Waconia, Minnesota, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
May 27, 2008  
Bottle pours black with no head (I tried) - but a tan head if you swirl it in the tulip, and some spot lace. The aroma is coffee, deep malt, very dark chocolate, and the darker of the dark fruits. The flavor is roasty, slightly lactic, oats, chocolate and vanilla as it warms, and really quite nice. The palate is decent enough - thin, but still slick. Overall, I like this well enough.



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