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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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 BeerandBlues2 (3203), 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.


 grandet (479), Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/518/20
Nov 13, 2007  
Nice packageing, pitch black pour with no head, smell of coffee, caramel, and chocolate. Taste is strong coffee and alcohol, but balanced at the same time. Very warming and tasty. Interested to try their other beers.


 Gusler (2655), Tucson, Arizona, USA
4.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/518/20
Nov 12, 2007  
The beer decamps the 500ml bottle an atramentous color, with a runty chocolate creamy head, that evanescence’s slowly, leaving the lace to circumnavigate the glass. Greeting you first is a bittersweet chocolate espresso aroma that is bushwhacked quickly by the fusel alcohol, lost in the shuffle is a bit of caramel, dark roasted grain, and molasses. Front is ambrosial, grain profile exceptional, with an amalgamate of hops and alcohol at the stern, top is full and rich. Finish has a pedestrian acidity, the hops, burnt grain, coffee, bittersweet chocolate commingle with the alcohol to beget a bleached desert bone-dry aftertaste that welds itself to the palate. The term “tummy warmer” is an understatement; it is a “Hoot”, ranks up there with “Three Floyd’s Dark Lord”, and the “Original monster from the dark side, Dogfish Head World Wide Stout (23%).


 bfeldmann (1042), Wilmington, Delaware, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/56/102/512/20
Nov 8, 2007  
thanks eagle. Don’t believe the hype. Poured a dark black red edges small head and almost no lacing. Aroma was chocolate and dark fruits. Flavor was much the same with some spices in there just a ho hum for sure.


 eaglefan538 (2360), Wilmington, Delaware, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/512/20
Nov 7, 2007  
Bottle from SL, highly anticipated despite slob’s less than impressive scoring before I got to this. Heck, I’ve traded more of these than I’ve had myself. Well, slob was unfortunately right, at least I was not impressed either. The pour was pitch dark black, weak head and lacing. The aroma was dark fruits, chocolate with milky notes. The flavor was milk chocolate, dark fruits, maple, all with a light spicey touch (cardamum or sometehing?). Initially this thing came across fairly hot (maybe not to the extend it seemed 16%abv...), but after a few sips, the alcohol seemed to settle down. An ok imperial stout, but certainly not above average among its peers, hence the average score from me. (I definitely will not have another at the ridiculous price tag.)


 Edmoe (126), Orlando, Florida, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/104/518/20
Nov 4, 2007  
Bottle #1156. Black in color. No head to speak of. Aroma is very malty sweet... obvious alcohol...raisins, plum, caramel, chocolate all present. Taste is very thick, sticky. Pronounced alcohol. Bitterness balances sweetness nicely. Coffee with Licorice. Excellent brew but expensive.


 notalush (2645), Denver, Colorado, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/105/516/20
Nov 3, 2007  
Thick, inky black pour - fairly hot aroma, but nice vinous complexity going on, with plum and fig hiding in the background - present alcohol, but much less than you’d expect from the abv - boozy, but in a good and tasty way, like hot chocolate with some rum thrown in - warming, with some cinnamon spiciness to it - some light smoky hints - tasty.



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