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Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition 4.2 419

Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon First Edition

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Formerly brewed at Nøgne Ø
Style: Imperial Stout

Grimstad, Norway

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4194.22/5.04.2/5.0Special16%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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 MIBRomeo (1966), Wisconsin, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/59/105/517/20
Dec 16, 2007  
Jet balck pour thick brown head w/ light lacing. Huge rich roaty malt aroma, light alcohols hints of milk chocolate. Full well coated and creamy palate. Taste is delicious, rich milk chocolates roasty malts light alcohols almost an earthy chocolate. Simply delicious.


 blankboy (3264), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/518/20
Dec 2, 2007  
Bottle (500ml) shared with HogTownHarry & tupalev -- courtesy of HogTownHarry. Pours black with an average size diminishing frothy light-brown head. Aroma: Wowza, that’s smells great! Roasted malt, bitter chocolate, dark fruit, vanilla and hops. Flavour’s just as good if not better with roasted malt, vanilla, nuts, coffee, chocolate and dark fruit -- so much going on here. Medium to full bodied, syrupy mouthfeel. Can’t taste the 16% at all which is scary. Holy cow, this is simply amazing, thanks for sharing Harry!


 1FastSTi (2591), Glendale, Wisconsin, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/105/518/20
Jan 6, 2008  
Thanks Mike for sharing this. Bottle #2712. The beer pours to a black body with a thin creamy light tan head. The aroma is rich deep chocolate, interesting dark fruits, coffee, and dark cane sugars. The flavor is richly complex chocolates, dark fruits, coffee, molasses (and/or cane sugar). The palate is creamy, smooth, and dominated by sweet sugars.


 maniac (2774), Richmond, Virginia, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/104/518/20
Apr 20, 2008  
Dark black body with a small creamy light brown head. Coffee, roast, rum soaked fruit and caramel aroma. Huge roast flavor, light caramel, more rum soaked fruit. Full body with moderately low carbonation.


 Sofajoern (146), Denmark
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/104/518/20
Apr 4, 2007  
Pitch black with lovely brown head. Strong almost brutal aromas of coffee, liquorice, fortified wines and bitter chocolate. Flavor also has a bit of sweetness to it, roasted malts and notes of dark berries. I actually thought the alchohol was quite well hidden here, which was quite a surprise. Thumbs up and many, many thanks to gunnfryd & yngwie for bringing this along.


 lordeche (397), Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/510/104/518/20
Mar 5, 2009  
#00696. Pours black with moderate body and brown head. Crazy aroma- tons of vinous notes right out of the gate, followed by dark chocolate, coffee, roasted malts, and some citrusy fruity notes. Flavor smashes you up front with sweet berry, grape, and other dark fruits on a roasty, dry dark chocolate backbone, hints of coffee and roasted malts, and a surprising amount of hops throughout and into the finish. Palate is far fuller than I thought it would be on the initial pour, though not weighed down by excessive chocolate maltiness. Really well balanced and almost excessively complex, this is a work of art.


 after4ever (2859), Brier, Washington, USA
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/517/20
Oct 20, 2007  
500. Thank you so much, Maria! This is a completely overwhelmingly amazing beer. Just astonishingly good. Pours thick deep opaque black with a little bit of moussy tan head for a minute, but then it settles to headless, laceless stillness. Prunes, dates, soy, chocolate, and vanilla on the nose. Deep thick oily viscous body on the attack, fairly still, ultra intense flavors: soy, chocolate, white sugar, dates, plums, prunes. Just a huge churning maelstrom of flavors. Light tingling hop and soy bitterness on the finish. Just awesome stuff.


 alafito (334), tijuana, Mexico
4.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/510/104/518/20
Dec 18, 2007  
Dense black liquid with a thin head. Tastes of a dark chocolate bar with rummed cherries and a touch of coffee. Finishes with some sweet vanilla notes. The palate is thick and chewy with a nice softness to it.



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