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Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition

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Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition - Imperial Stout

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Formerly brewed at Nøgne Ø
Style: Imperial Stout

Grimstad, Norway

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4084.22/5.04.2/5.0Special16%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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 CaptainCougar (5379), Rockville, Maryland, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/105/517/20
Nov 28, 2007  
Bottles thanks to artusory and slob: Pours an oily opaque with a thin ring of dark tan bubbles. Complex sweet dark caramel malty nose has some rich dark fruity and chocolate notes. Body starts dense and viscous with some molasses and sweet sticky caramel and chocolate with a warm, sweet molten chocolate finish. Reminds me a lot of early versions of Dogfish Head World Wide Stout. Pretty tasty and should age well.


 JohnC (2227), Mission Viejo, California, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/510/105/519/20
Nov 26, 2007  
Great beer. Velvety mouthfeel with a chocolatey flavor that has notes of coffee, this brew is smoothly dangerous. The alcohol hits you later.


 jarspag (593), Los Angeles, California, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/519/20
Nov 26, 2007  
Thanks to the J-nizz for the DM addition on 11/22. This was sampled before and after the quazzi-narf. Expectations were more than met with this guy! Outstanding! Really only knock I have is the less than perfect appearance. Some gripe huh? Aroma and flavor seep with dark chocolate, dark fruits, bitter espresso. Finish is marathon like - warming alcohol is just a pleasurable addition as it warms the whole way down. The palate was off the hook and very full bodied. Solid winter time brew ... will definitely have to spend the $ on another one.


 elmatador00 (518), j-action-ville, North Carolina, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/105/518/20
Nov 24, 2007  
Bottle #3051. Pours a dark black with a thin tan reddish head. Hints of coffee, caramel, citrus, nut, slight hop, and vanilla. Finished thick and sweet. Carbonation balanced perfectly with the alcohol. Defiantly worth the money. Very enjoyable.


 jimbowood (947), Athens, Georgia, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/104/518/20
Nov 23, 2007  
Beautifully packaged bottle courtesy of hopdog. This is a very nice, complex imperial stout that will only grow in flavor w/ age. Very reminiscent of young Memphistopoles. Dark fruit, coffee, vanilla, and dark chocolate w/ a mild alcohol burn. Very good.


 hapjydeuce (763), Del Mar, California, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/510/105/518/20
Nov 22, 2007  
Nov.22 D-METAL! J and I popped this one after enjoying Fred from the Wood, what a lineup... This beer truly surpassed my expectations and blew me away, both as a near genre-defying creation and as a beer. After being let down by their imperial stout, this one re-bolstered my confidence in Nogne; it’s epic in my book (if you appreciate huge beers). Silky crude oil pour, seriously pitch black with a dissipating brown head, settling into maroon lacing. Dark chocolate, espresso, black cherry, molasses, currant and lightly bittered butterscotch smells come off the glass. Each sip was a pleasure, sugared espresso, nutty roasted malt, plenty of port-wine flavors and texture, all with that solid chocolately-malty backbone. Just bitter enough to engage all those flavors to stick on the tongue, finishing well. The high alcohol content is subdued very nicely. Thick and hearty, this is a brew that needs to be consumed on the ski slopes. Simply Epic.


 BeerandBlues2 (3198), Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/105/517/20
Nov 18, 2007  
Bottle purchased at Liquor Max in Loveland, CO. Pours opaque with a spare, fizzy, light brown head, diminishing with spare to no lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (molasses, chocolate, coffee, burnt grain), average hops (flowers, perfume), average yeast (dough, leather) with notes of heavy alcohol, prune, and licorice. Full bodied, creamy texture, average carbonation, and a bitter finish. Average duration, moderate sweetness, heavy acidity and bitterness.


 axilla (962), New Providence, Pennsylvania, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/516/20
Nov 14, 2007  
I’ve had this beer twice recently and they tasted like to different beers. Both poured very thick and dark with a nice brown head. Big coffee aroma and flavor in both. The first one was one of the best Impy stouts I’ve had. The second bottle was very disappointing as it had a lot of syrupy sweetness comparable to "SA Utopia" that overpowered everything else and kind of ruined it. My rating is an average of the two. Perhaps, I’ll give it one more try and see which beer sampled is the normal.



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