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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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 emacgee (1864), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/517/20
Dec 5, 2007    Updated: Dec 14, 2007
Thanks doclock. Pours black with a fizzy tan head. Has more of a crackly carbonation than I expected. The aroma is very rich, strong, vinous, alcohol, sweet fruit, Belgian candy sugars, figs, coffee, . The flavor is very rich and warm. Wow, very warm dry alcohol, sweet fruits, chocolate and coffee liqueur, Belgian brown sugar, vinous. Warm soft full palate, velvety warm dry mouthfeel and lasting warmth. Delicious interpretation of an RIS.


 tupalev (2611), Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
4.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/510/105/520/20
Dec 5, 2007  
Bottle shared with Hogtown Harry and Blankboy, courtesy of Harry, many many thanks! Cray appearance - pitch black, big dark rich brown head with hints - really neat. Aroma featuring sweet rich malt, chocolate, some nuttiness, simply stunning. Taste is even better - so rich, roof of your mouth nuttiness, tons and tons of rich dark chocolate and roast. Alcohol, somehow, not really there. Silky full body. Quite incredible really, Harry picked up another bottle for me (thank you!!) which my wife and I will be sharing next week to celebrate our son’s first birthday - special occasion, special beer.


 heemer77 (4303), Savannah, Missouri, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/103/515/20
Dec 5, 2007    Updated: Jan 15, 2008
Poured black with a light brown colored head. The aroma was up front coffee with some caramel and whiskey. The taste was sweet honey with coffee. There was also some fruit and spice balance of apples and cinnamon. This had a very thick and rich body. A little too alcoholic in the finish.


 blankboy (3201), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/518/20
Dec 2, 2007  
Bottle (500ml) shared with HogTownHarry & tupalev -- courtesy of HogTownHarry. Pours black with an average size diminishing frothy light-brown head. Aroma: Wowza, that’s smells great! Roasted malt, bitter chocolate, dark fruit, vanilla and hops. Flavour’s just as good if not better with roasted malt, vanilla, nuts, coffee, chocolate and dark fruit -- so much going on here. Medium to full bodied, syrupy mouthfeel. Can’t taste the 16% at all which is scary. Holy cow, this is simply amazing, thanks for sharing Harry!


 Eyedrinkale (3209), Astoria, New York, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/517/20
Dec 1, 2007  
As dark and rich as it gets, just short of DL. Rich, sweet, toasty and chocolate. Still has a big alcohol bite to it though. Once this mellows, this will be a perfect Impy.


 Phil (100), Kent, England
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/59/104/516/20
Nov 30, 2007  
Massive, maassiiivve beer. Intense, thick dark colossus of a beer. A swirling mass of coffee, choc, and malt. Very long very. Shared with Dad.


 bp (455), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/59/105/517/20
Nov 30, 2007  
Bottle: Pours a thick looking dark black with a thin lasting tan head, amazingly strong coffee and dark chocolate aroma, taste is coffee, malt, dark chocoalte, the bitterness intensifies a bit in the aftertaste and there is a nice warming feeling in the throat, very smooth mouthfeel, this beer is clearly worth the hype. It cost me $20 to get one of these. I wish I could afford to buy this with regularity - might be worth getting one more to age however.


 ross (1709), weddington, South Carolina, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/516/20
Nov 29, 2007  
Bottle from Jeff which I split with Garrett last night since he brought me a bunch of beer from Lost Abbey, thanks a ton both of you. Pours out a color that isnt even near brown, its just solid black. Thick tan head on it that sticks to the glass. Smells like sweet sugars, coffee, and a touch of alcohol. Tastes really good, smooth, thick, not really noticeable 16% alcohol either. Reminds me of WWS in the sweetness factor. Nice roasted coffee flavor too. Good stuff, not as good as Black Hole, but still, good stuff. Makes me want to move to Norway..



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