Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition

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.

Great beer. Velvety mouthfeel with a chocolatey flavor that has notes of coffee, this brew is smoothly dangerous. The alcohol hits you later.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.