Nils Oscar Imperial Stout

Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Foreign Stout
Nyköping, Sweden

Bottle courtesy after4ever. Pours a nearly opaque black with a lacy tan head. Medium full body and moderate carbonation. Brown sugar and a bit of hops in the nose. The taste is lightly sweet, with coffee, caramel and bittersweet chocolate. Smoke and roasty finish.

A very tasty stout. Lot’s of malt and hops in the taste. Since I had it right out of a bottle I can’t really judge the aroma too well. Some tastes of chocolate as well. Will review this as soon as I have from a glas. I expect it to be soon.

Deep red black, thin beige head and moderate condition. Intensly rich chocolate aroma. Good sweet malt, liquorice and coffee in the mouth and a nicely judged blend of coffee bitterness and chocolate sweetness in the finish.

Bottle. Big thanks to omhper for sending this all the way out here. Abv on this bottle is 7.0, not 6.5. Pours ruby-black, thin beige head with lacing. Notes of chocolate and coffee in the aroma, a slightly sour odor in there as well. Very enticing. Thick, consistency really fills up your entire mouth with chewy malty goodness. Flavor is very delicately balanced - prominent, complex coffee-flavors, slightly sweet, with a little alcohol taste as it warms up. Also a little bit of hoppy bitterness in the finish. A real treat. As I sit drinking this in the oppresive tropical heat of Taiwan, dreaming of a cool spring evening on the baltic as I sip this beer.

THOUGHTS: My first Swedish beer. A nice chocolaty beer. Definitely more of a foreign stout than an impy stout. Nice, but not the best foreign stout I’ve ever had, I thought. But then, oops. It actually was nicer than I thought. I just had it a little too cold at first. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a clear, dark brown that was black in the glass and dark red when held to the light. It had an average tan head that mostly diminished and left good lacing. The aroma was moderate to heavy coffee, chocolate syrup and cocoa powder along with some dark, sour fruit. The flavor started sweet, lightly bitter and sour; and finished sour and bitter with and average duration. There was both milk and dark chocolate, cocoa powder, and dark, slightly sour fruit, then a little bitter chocolate. The medium to full body was slightly oily, but also creamy with fizzy carbonation and a chalky and light to moderately astringent finish.

Bottle.Dark black body with creamy fast disapearing brownish head. Smells of dark chocolat. Tasts roasted, sweet, coffee and little salty and smokey. Gets more breadier in the middle, like a dark syrup bread with raisins and aniseroots. Palate is thick and syrupy and real crispy. Got som particles in my mouth from the first sip, really cool.

Bottle. Dark brown colour with lasting brown head. Flavor is roasted, coffee, burnt caramel, but still sweet. Flavor is, again, roasted with coffee, but with chocolate and wood tones as well. Very good, and with a relatively low ABV of 7%, not that strong.

Murky dark brown pour with some dark cream head. Some roast coffee and malt aromas. Smooth with a small amount of carbonation. Roasty, mocha, a little sweet malt, coffee. Clean finishing. Med/full bodied. The lower abv definetely makes this a non-standard Imperial. It’s less edgy, but very drinkable and very good. This might even be a little under rated.