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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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heylrule (46), Maryland, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/104/516/20
Jan 27, 2008  
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.


 ABUSEDGOAT (1934), California, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Jan 22, 2008  
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.


 ogivlado (3050), Zagreb, Croatia
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/510/105/518/20
Jan 22, 2008  
Last and the best beer from X-mas package sent by Papsoe (thanks), shared with Doggythedog.
Bottled(500ml). -Deep, deep black coloured, small but lasting dark brown head, pleasant alcoholic chocolate and whiskey nose. Malty, slight alcoholic and pure chocolate taste with notes of coffee, dried fruits and licorice. Well balanced high alcohol percentage. Delicious brew and the best imperial stout that I’ve tried.
Once again huge thanks to Papsoe for this one.


 apoptosis (1316), Long Island, New York, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Jan 21, 2008  
I don’t know what all the hype is about on this beer. big, soapy head. It is very sugary sweet. Alcohol is well-hidden by the sugar, but it is still very, very hot. Lots of chocolate, cocoa notes, yet an interesting wheatiness.


 mabel (2590), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Jan 21, 2008  
[1034-20080108] Bottle (w/ jerc, DuctTape, others; Edition #01280). Boozy fig date aroma. Black body with a long-lasting creamy tan head. Boozy floral fig malt flavour has a long floral aftertaste. Full body. Not a fan of the floral, otherwise quite interesting.


 Doggythedog (1551), Split, Croatia
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/518/20
Jan 18, 2008  
Bottle courtesy of Papsoe (a huge, huge thanks!), shared with ozujsko
Poured an opaque black body with a small-medium sized brown headr. The nose was odd, sourish (in a good way), a touch of chocolate and a touch of alcohol, resembling some rakija. A pleasant, heavy, sweet taste, chocolate, visible alcohol... not terribly complex but very nicely balanced and damn pleasant... I completely forgot this was 16%... wow. Not your run of the mill imperial stout, not a chance.


 lb4lb (2011), Austin, Texas, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Jan 14, 2008  
Bottle generously shared by fly. A big thank you from Erin and me for this one!
Pours a solid black, with a very short lived head in a makeshift snifter. Smell is dark dried fruit, raisiny, roasted malt and some mild alcohol that is unobtrusive. Taste is initially somewhat spicy and tingly roasty flavored malt, with flavors of dark fruit and a hint of coffee towards the tail end of it. I wouldn’t call this a coffee beer so much as an extremely well balanced huge imperial stout. Alcohol is extremely well hidden for 16%, and I highly enjoyed this beer. Rating # 666 and I’m one click away from my music...


 Skeegle (486), Maryland, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/516/20
Jan 13, 2008    Updated: Feb 9, 2008
Man. What a BIG beer. Bares many similarities with World Wide, though I have to say I feel that I liked the alcohol bigness in WWS a bit better. Never the less, this is one barley monster. Tons of super roasted barley, it tastes like chocolately wheaty brownies, as if Kellogg’s released a chocolate Frosted Mini-Wheats cereal. Lots of coffee in there too, tons. Very vinous, probably because of the 16%, but there are buckets of berries in this guy, of all sorts, and they range from the unripe bitter cane sugar taste of chewing on plum skin, to mushy gooey blue berries and fat bulging saccular blackberries. The alcohol burns the hell out of your mouth, but in a way that feels magnificent, and reminds you that you are drinking the currently 18th highest scored beer on ratebeer. The palate is super creamy, one that you would expect from a double stout on nitro, because it is as smooth as porters/stouts on nitro start off, but has the innumerable body that it swallows thick and gushy like toothpaste spit. I wish that I could have had the patience to let this one age for a year, but I couldn’t, and I honestly don’t know how this one could get too much better.



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