Nils Oscar Imperial Stout

Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Foreign Stout
Nyköping, Sweden

Thanks to mrwalker for the trade... Aroma:chocolate,dark cocoa... Appearance:dark,good tan head.. Flavor:Dark chocolate,cocoa.Light expresso flavor...

12 oz bottle, via MrWalker. Oily black body with a thin covering of light brown head. No sediment in bottle. Dense roasty nose with milk chocolate, coffee, anise, and some alcohol. Flavor is balanced between burnt malt and dark cocoa. Nice bitter and espresso finish, very well rounded flavor profile. Texture is oily but not thick at all. Very smooth with pleasant carbonation, despite not being bottle conditioned. A very good Imperial Stout. This would be great if kept alive and non-filtered, it loses some of the softness and fullness in the mouthfeel that could have been there potentially.

Black with a light brown head. Chocolate and dried fruit aroma. Rich, burned and bitter flavour with only little chocolate sweetness. Dry, roast malt aftertaste. One year old bottle: Nothing to add, really. Still awesome.

Almost black with quickly disappearing light brown head. Delicious bitter chocolate aroma. Roasted flavours, bitter chocolate, good bitterness underneath. Full body. Delicious beer for a special moment, it would age well also.

Bottled. Dark brown to black colour, thick brown head. Very roasted nose, sweetish with black coffe. Espresso with lots of sugar. Taste is roasted, deep, with chocolate, black coffee and black rye bread, some dried fruit and liquorice as well. Stunning stuff! Rerate: (draught at Akkurat, Stockholm, 26 Feb 2007, vintage unknown, but probably not very young) Black colour with brief, brown head. Roasted nose with chocolate, some smoke, tobacco, liquorice and hints of tar. Roasted taste with chocolate (a bit like Ben & Jerry’s chocolate ice-cream with chocolate chunks), cocoa and notes of coffeeish bitterness. Medium to full body, smooth as velvet and in fantastic balance.

Bottle. Vintage 2001. Pours dark brown with a brownish head. Aroma is sweetish with slight notes of toffee and notes of port starting to build up, no doubt thanks to the age. Flavour is sweetish with a strong smoked note, bordering barbecue. Nice, but could do with a bit more body. I have yet to try a ’fresh’ one, though. 28-01-06.

First rating
Black, pitch black color. Brown head. Chocolate scent and a very burnt dominating flavor.
When it comes down to an Imperial Stout, this is as close to perfection as I’ve ever tasted it! I’ve tried it on bottle and from the tap, on various different occasions, the conclusion is that it’s one of the best beers around that I’ve tasted. I’ve brought it with me to friends in Germany and Mexico to spread the taste, and it’s been much appreciated.
9/5/9/4/19=4.6

Second rating
(33 cl bottle at Café 3 Små Rum, Göteborg)
On March 1, 2008
Pitch black color, brown head. Really nice chocolate and roasted scent. Roasted malt, coffee and chocolate taste. Smooth mouthfeel, medium high bitterness.
9/4/8/4/18=4.3 - Rerate (Bottled, thanks to ekstedt!) On November 14, 2008. Blind tasting. Deep ruby red to black color, brown head. Milk chocolate, cocoa, some sweet baking sirup, scent. Thin, milky, grainy taste. A bit roasted aftertaste. Almost thin mouthfeel, rather low bitterness. Some toffee scent as well. 7/4/7/3/13=3.4 - Medium line: 8/4/7/4/15=3.8

33 cl bottle, 7% ABV, BB January 2011. Thanks to the sk8viking! Poured damn-near black (only some faint mahogany sparkle under the beer light)... capped with a light ring and pool of cappuccino head. Even with my cold, I picked up a full array of roasty dark malts... coffee and fresh licorice at the forefront, with dark chocolate and raisins not far behind. Roastiness remains in the mouth with flavors of coffee, licorice and lesser chocolate. Some bitterness at the edges from coffee, and some from grassy hoppage. Light-bodied for the style, but does the trick. Finish is of coffee and some bittersweet chocolate-dipped currants. Excellent brew!