Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition

Deep black in color with a nice tan head. Malty chocolatety hoppy aroma. Roasty caramel notes. Chocolatety roasty like coffee flavor. Hoppy earthy notes. Full bodied. Finish is bittersweet chocolate Well balanced. Nice.

500mL bottle. Second time I’ve had this, still just way too boozy and thin. What I don’t understand is how great the body was on their Porter and how far they missed the mark on this. I understand that if you’re gonna make a beer 16%, you don’t want it to be chewy, but FFS this is like drinking vodka spiked chocolate infused coffee.

Nice looking black pour with s tan head (and one of the coolest looking bottles around). Aroma has massive amounts of chocolate, coffee, dark berries, Cabernet Sauvingon, wood.....Flavor starts out so silky smooth with espresso and rich chocolate. Some nice wood, earth, berries and hops. Only thing holding it back is the alcohol taste and burn. Mouthfeel is nice, but should be better in a few years. Good stuff - I applaud the attempt and find this one to have many of the same qualities of a WWS or Expedition, its just not quite there yet. Kinda rough for the $$. What a beer.

Thanks Hart for bringing this to our gathering, I waited all day for this one. Aroma was strong licorice and coffee. Pour was a deep dark brown/black with no head. Taste was mostly alcohol-whiskey-ish with a bitter coffee aftertaste that barely is able to peek above the alcohol fire on the back of the throat. That is expected in a beer of this strength, though. Not bad for such a big beer. I’d like to try this with a couple years on it.

(50cl bottle) Small brown head atop black body with brown edges. Aroma is moderately sweet, roast/coffee, some vinous/whisky, grapefruit, dark chocolate, raisin, light burnt, plum. Taste is sweet, dark chocolate, vinous, espresso/roast, some whisky boozy, molasses, faint anise. Creamy full body, low carbonation. A very enjoyable sipping beer, great for sharing or, better yet, having to yourself.

Had the pleasure of sampling this at the 1/27/2008 Pittsburgh ratebeer.com gathering upstairs, Sharp Edge Creekhouse. It will be a long time, if ever I am invited again and I see a spread of bottles like I did there - ever again. I am not good enough for the beers that were that we sampled! For example, how about this beer; Dark Horizon first edition. Strongish alky aroma that is alarming but smells better than most high alky brews. Black as coal but not as viscous as I would have expected. No carbonation what so ever. IMHO, not a beer, more like whiskey or wine. Over the top whiskey and coffee, tastes somewhat like the coffee grampah Laurenzi used to drink after work and dinner. Perfect example of the style but does not rate high on my lager lovin enjoyability scale!

black pour small head. can def smell alcohol. decent coffee and choco taste. beer should be age well. id say hold off for a bit.

1842: Black pour, moderate head with relatively good lacing and retention. Aroma is strong alcohol with some other big flavors. Chocolate, licorice, coffee, big time darker fruits, moderate to low hopping. Somewhat winelike, but a wine drinker would groan drinking this. Heavy body, quite sweet, somewhat alcoholic, still young. One of the biggest for sure.