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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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 IrishBoy (2705), Bakersfield, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Oct 10, 2007  
(Odeed’s bottle #02399 by way of footbalm); nose of alcohol (strong and bourbony), chocolate, coffee, and old wood (not vanillay). Transparent very dark brown with a ring of tan bubbles around the glass edges; Flavor of chocolate, coffee, and Jim Beam. Body is medium but the 16% really shows.


 Odeed (1673), Bakersfield, California, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/516/20
Oct 10, 2007  
(bottle #02399 by way of footbalm)black with red highlights.dark brown head that fades fast.i could smell the alcohol as soon as i popped the cap.i also grabbed old wood,chocolate,coffee,smoke,,and butterscotch in the aroma.the first sip gives of LOADS OF ALCOHOL,i then pick up what i got in the aroma.honestly this is just way to hot right now.will aging do this any good?only time will tell.


 ante (2928), Stockholm, Sweden
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/105/517/20
Oct 10, 2007  
Bottled. Pours out in a opaque black colour with a low dissapearing brown head. Deep, complex aroma of alcohol, soy, burnt malts, dark chocolate, dades and pepper. Full and warming flavour of portm anise, tobbaco, luxury dark chocolate and dense caramel. Long peppery and slightly vinous finish of port, dark chocolate, caramel and pepper. World-class.


 Skyview (4019), Papoose Jct., Minnesota, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/59/104/518/20
Oct 7, 2007  
Picked up single 500ml bottle (#02077) from Cellars Wine & Spirits in St Paul, MN. Pours an opaque black motor oil brew with a fast dissolving tan head that leaves behind a tan ring and a few bubbles. Aroma of dark bittersweet chocolate, candi sugar, coffee and some smokey alcohol. Taste is thick and chewy, very little carbonation, with a dark toasted malt flavor with characters of dark chocolate, coffee and multiple dark pitted fruits. Finish is a soft and creamy, heavy on the alcohol with a sweet chocolate aftertaste. Impressive!


 KimJohansen (6917), Copenhagen V, Denmark
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/517/20
Oct 7, 2007  
Pours black with a disappearing brown head. Sweet malty aroma with hints of chocolate and alcolhol. Complex flavor with notes of chokolate, prunes and roasted malt. Nice alcohol in the finish.


 Beaver (596), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
Oct 7, 2007  
500ml bottle in a fancy case. Pours a motor oil opaque black with a thin brown head that quickly diminishes to a thin collar.

The aroma is dark chocolate, some candy sugar, vinous fruits and sharp alcohol.

The flavor is bitter baker’s chocolate, grainy malts, black licorice, some sour vinous fruitiness, sweet candy sugar, and a big wallop of warming alcohol. The mouthfeel is pretty full and low on carbonation.

Overall, this is truly a big beer. It’s fun, but way too harsh on the alcohol. At $22 for a 500ml bottle, it’s good to try once.


 michael-pollack (2650), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Oct 6, 2007  
500ml Bottle (#850): Strong sweet, lightly bitter aroma. Smells of coffee, dark dried fruits, dark chocolate, roasted malt, and rye. Poured dark black in color with a medium-sized, foamy, rocky, dark-brown head that lasted throughout. Opaque. Flavor is medium sweet. Tastes of chocolate, coffee, alcohol, smoke, and malts. Medium to full body. Thin, oily texture. Soft carbonation. Coffee, malty, alcohol finish. Overall, 16% ABV is well hidden.


 Dough77 (773), Aurora, Illinois, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/103/517/20
Oct 5, 2007  
bottle 02139. BIG # 500! This beer had sips that were 5.0 material. I have a few more bottles that will hopefully tame that 16 percent a little bit. Pour is between dark brown and black. Tagging along is a very small brim of a head colored light brown. Nose is very potent on the alcohol with dark malts, chocolate and coffee coming in as well. Once the consumption starts, the alcohol decides its time to kick it up a nothch. Its so overbearing that it really detracts from a delicous chocolatey caramey coffee toffee malty friggin deliciousness. This beer may be a 5.0 in a year or two or three or four, but as it sits not quite. I love this beer and it truly is so friggin good, but its not quite there. YET.



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