Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition

Pours a thick viscous deep black with a small brown head. Aroma is chocolate, caramel, roasted barley, and hops. Flavor is roast, chocolate, malt, cocoa, coffee, hops, roasted barley. Has a creamy thick mouthfeel and a bit of alcohol burn in the finish, which is expected considering the alcohol content. Really nice for how strong it is.

Bottle shared by Daknole. Tar black with brown head. Thick inky aromas. Really dense, heavy, intense, hot but not harsh, tar aromas. Aromas signal intensity. Smooth, hot, good. Not a coffee overload at all. Just a really intense rich brew with lots of tar/asphalt deliciousness for sipping. Well-made and yummy.

Bottle. Forgot the number..dammit. Black pour. Tan head. Aroma is big...molasses, roast, chocolate, toffee, dark fruit, red wine, yeast and some booze. Flavor had some alcohol, but it was hidden well enough. Tons of roast, tartness, yeats, raisins, molasses, and oh yes...chocolate. Very nice. Now I have to sit on edition 2.

Dark as hell is this one. With such a high gravity, it’s gonna be really hard to get things to balance out right, but I think they came pretty close here. There was too much booze up front and too much sweetness on the finish. Honestly a lot less roasty deliciousness than I was hoping for. I’m glad I got to try this once, but probably won’t go out of my way to do so again.

CHF2009. Black coloured and clear. Lots of aroma in the flavor, port, caramel, roasted, vine, plum. Flavor is heavy sweet. Syrup texture. Soft carbonation.

Bottle. Pours near black with a quickly diminishing brown head. Sweet malty aroma, with molasses, roast, licorice, and dark fruits. The flavor is also dominated by sweeter notes of licorice and molasses, with dark fruits, and a hint of booze. Roasted malts and coffee take a secondary role. Moderate amount of bitterness. Certainly a sipper, but a good one.

CBF09. Bottle. Frothy white fair fully deminishing head. Black colour. Heavy malty and hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter exstremely powerfull burning flavor. Wonderfull long finish. Creamy palate. Excellent.

I thought this would be my first 4.9. Shit. Yet another product of nbutler11’s weasel farm. Opens with a glossy aroma of dark chocolate brownie, date, ephemeral alcohol. Color is such that light gives it no apparent color, even at the edges. Head is cream and eventually dissipates. Flavor is a laundry list: cream, amaretto, hazelnut, almond give way to and meld with light fruit, milk chocolate, espresso, more brownie. The whole thing is packaged by the wine yeast and this really does sit and fume as if it were a chocolate coffee wine. It misses a perfect score because there is a very plain residue that this beer imparts: the same tar-ish thick nastiness of Mikkeller Black lingers and threatens to interfere with flavors. Ultimately, it improves the aroma, but interferes with the experience of the beer.