Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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...

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.

Thanks Brigadier. Pitch black pour, medium brown head. Roasty aroma, fruity esters, hot & boozy. Flavor is thick and rich, with a lot of booze. Sweet molasses, fruity esters, licorice, anice, then a thick cloying chocolate and roastiness in the finish. Thick and chew, hot, creamy mouthfeel. Good beer.

Big thanks to Quake1028 for opening this splendid brew (#01376). Pours deep dark abyss like with decent mocha head for such a huge beer. The aroma is licorice, chocolate, coffee and a decent load of alcohol. The nose is a bit light. The taste starts mildly viscous (not as viscous as I was expecting) with roastiness mixed with chocolate and coffee. The ABV is there and noticeable but at 16% it is well hidden. Midway the ABV sensation grows some with rich creamy chocolate followed by more coffee. Into the finish notes of licorice and dark fruity esters are also noticed as the taste concludes. The roasty, burnt, chocolate malts and coffee seem to linger for an extended period of time. I would love to try this again with a decade or more of age on it.