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Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition

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Formerly brewed at Nøgne Ø
Style: Imperial Stout

Grimstad, Norway

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4104.22/5.04.2/5.0Special16%97.9Snifter
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This is our first edition of Dark Horizon. It is the first, for us anyway. There will be more to follow, and even though they will be other editions, they will still be firsts. “Let’s go crazy!” said Tore. The last time he said that, we created #100, which proved to be a success. How could I not agree to his suggestion? “How crazy can we be?” I responded. “Go all the way!” he answered. So we started off with a beefed up Imperial Stout, extra dark and extra bitter, not much to it really, but maybe a bit over the top. When this brew had fermented, we gathered again on a sunny Saturday morning, ready for next move. Half a ton of demerara sugars and our homemade extract of coffee were waiting for us. Standing there with sticky sugars all over the brewery and us, I just couldn’t resist asking Tore: “Don’t you have better things to do during week ends?” To this point he still hasn’t answered me. After adding a hefty volume of wine yeast, we left this brew to itself for month. A good month, that was.

This is ale; it is also a wine, and a coffee drink. We’ve been playful and brewed a hybrid. Do yourself and your friends a favour and share this bottle with those you deem worthy. Dark Horizon is indeed a global brew. Inspiration from the US Midwest, malt from England, bottles from Germany, name from Japan, sugars from Mauritius, hops from the Pacific rim, Yeast from Canada, coffee from Colombia, brewed in Grimstad, Norway.

All bottles of Dark Horizon are numbered with its unique number, and all together we launched 6000 of this brew.

37 P, 75 IBU, 16% ABV.
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 RCL (1460), Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/104/519/20
May 28, 2008  
Just superb. This tastes like it might be 7-8% tops. Perfect balance. Aroma has some maple and cappuccino. Flavor is a delicious coffee and chocolate.


 JK (2949), Richfield, Minnesota, USA
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/510/105/518/20
May 24, 2008  
A great find for only $10. I didn’t know it was supposed to be $25 or more until later. Bottle # 02190. It is an incredible beer. It has been awhile since I have been really impressed by an imperial stout, and this one exceeded my expectations. It is a very complex beer. Unremarkable but good appearance, black, thick and heavy. Almost no carbonation, in the character of an English imperial stout. The aroma has smoke and sweet malt. Great flavor with coffee and chocolate, mildly roasted malt, more smoke, red wine with tannins, and dry grape skins. Outstanding palate. Considerably better than the Darklord 07 tasted the same night.


 tjthresh (1765), Greenfield, Indiana, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/518/20
May 23, 2008  
Bottle #4085 from BeerandBlues2. Shared with csbosox. Pours pure black with brown head. All kinds of stuff going on in the aroma. Chocolate covered coffee beans, salty soy sauce, and hard wood smoke. Fantastic flavor. Bitter dark chocolate fudge mocha. Throw a shot of some sort of dark fruit liquor it there. Full body. High carbonation. Silky. Warm finish. Amazingly drinkable, not that I’d try to drink a whole bottle by myself.


 csbosox (1079), Prairie Village, Kansas, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/518/20
May 22, 2008  
#4085. Thanks to tjthresh for this bottle. Pours very dark with a khaki head. Aroma is dark roast, tons of dark fruit, soy sauce, hints of oak and milk chocolate. Mouthfeel is big and slick with plenty of roast, bitterness, and alcohol at the end to keep it from being cloying. Taste is dates, prunes, dark fruits galore along with dark rum, light roast, espresso, omni-present, but not harsh, alcohol, and Pauillac bordeaux. A very interesting addition to the high alcohol, nearly over the top, imperial stout category. This more than holds it own with the WWS’s of the world.


 pepsican (885), The Student Ghetto, Iowa, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/518/20
May 12, 2008  
Multiple samples from multiple trades and tastings. Thanks everyone for a chance at this beer! I’ve personally never rated it just so I can sit down some day with a bottle to myself and go nuts. That is where this rating came from. Black pour with a thin tan head. Strong hop and coffee aroma. Flavor has tons of hops, coffee, roasted malts, raisin, brown sugar, chocolate, and alcohol. Finishes bitter, alight alcohol burn but I’d never guess 16%. Very creamy. I love this beer.


 Ofortuna (322), Grafton, Wisconsin, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/515/20
May 10, 2008  
Sampled the most recent time at DLD 2008. Tasted at two other get-togethers since its release. I really tried to give this a fair shake. Giant aroma of burnt dates and toffee brought to the point of charring. Burnt malt with an intense booze character. Upong further inspection, molasses with candied fruit is found deep within. Flavour is grainy in texture with massive alcohol beating the crap out of my palate. Fusel and a mess. Seems like they were trying to impersonate a "big American Imperial stout" by trying to go over-the-top in every aspect. Unfortunately, they completely missed the mark here. Completely unrefined and a mess.


 gnoff (3568), Göteborg, Sweden
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/57/104/512/20
May 10, 2008    Updated: Oct 20, 2008
First
(Shared with a friend
Black color, brown head. Raissin, alcohol, solvents, roasted, coffee, sweet scent. Licorice, sweet, prunes, raissins, alcohol taste. Clear warm alcohol burning feeling. Smooth mouthfeel, medium bitterness. I did expect much from this, though I think it is very much dominated by alcohol, not really a good beer for me.
6/4/6/4/13=3.3

Rerate
(Sampled from bottle at Bishops Arms Järntorget, Göteborg)
On October 19, 2008 - Porterfestivalen
Pitch black color, dark brown to black head. Raissin, acidic, vinous, alcohol scent. Sweet, vinous, alcohol, malty taste. Alcohol aftertaste. Big smooth mouthfeel, medium bitterness.
4/4/7/4/12=3.1


 Beerman6686 (1280), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/519/20
Apr 29, 2008  
WOW! Poured black as night with no head. Aroma is of lots of chocolate, coffee, soem fruits and alcohol. Flavor is very sweet and chocolate, with a nice coffee undertone and a nice dry burning alcohol finish. Excellent.



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