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Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition 4.2 418

Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition

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Formerly brewed at Nøgne Ø
Style: Imperial Stout

Grimstad, Norway

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4184.22/5.04.2/5.0Special16%97.7Snifter
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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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 thornecb (1819), Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Aug 2, 2008  
Pours deep black into a snifter. Mocha head recedes to hug rim. Smoky pit fruit aromas. Boozy and smooth with a sweet roasted fruit middle and a lasting licorice alcohol burn.


 sunevdj (1788), Copenhagen OE, Denmark
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/104/518/20
May 17, 2007  
Ølfestival 2007. Bottle, poured by the brewmaster, himself. Pours black with a brown head. Very sweet and bitter with coffee aromas. Also quite alcoholic, especially towards the end. Aromas of prunes and a hint of smoke. Oily texture. Soft cabonation. Long bitter and sweet finish with some coffee aromas.


 Enjoyit (1785), Vadum, Denmark
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/59/104/519/20
May 7, 2007  
Black of color with a brown head. An aroma with liqurice, coffee, chocolate and roasted malt, weak hints of alcohol. A nice flavor of tar, liqurice, coffee and roasted malt. Very nice!! Thnx Yngwie and Gunnfryd


 tjthresh (1782), Greenfield, Indiana, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/59/104/518/20
May 23, 2008  
Bottle #4085 from BeerandBlues2. Shared with csbosox. Pours pure black with brown head. All kinds of stuff going on in the aroma. Chocolate covered coffee beans, salty soy sauce, and hard wood smoke. Fantastic flavor. Bitter dark chocolate fudge mocha. Throw a shot of some sort of dark fruit liquor it there. Full body. High carbonation. Silky. Warm finish. Amazingly drinkable, not that I’d try to drink a whole bottle by myself.


 ryan (1781), Beltsville, Maryland, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/103/515/20
Dec 16, 2007  
Bottle shared by kmweaver. Pitch black body with a small, creamy tan head, lasting cover. The nose is rum, raisins, molasses, chocolate, coffee and alcohol. The flavor is moderately sweet with prunes, caramel, milk chocolate, espresso, roast and light floral hops. Full body is sticky and soft with a warm finish and light carbonation. Surprisingly nice.


 shp555 (1776), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/517/20
Jan 4, 2008  
My 800th!!: Pours a hazy brown color with a dark brown head. Aroma is molasses, plum, brown sugar, caramel, and alcohol. Flavor is malty, caramel, molasses, brown sugar, and some alcohol burn.


 blipp (1772), Newark, New Jersey, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
May 20, 2009  
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.


 tarjei (1762), Bryne, Norway
4.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/105/510/105/519/20
Mar 22, 2007  
How is it possible to give this beer 3,9...? Tasted in Kristiansand on «Ølkulinarisk aften» at the restaurant Måltid, with dark chocolade dessert and coffee. Perfect! Forget cognac, calvados, armagnac - this is the perfect avec. All I can do is join yngwie, Sigmund (they where there) and others in the choir...



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