Nøgne Ø Porter

Brewed by Nøgne Ø
Style: Porter
Grimstad, Norway

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Pitch black with a tan head. Huge smell of roasted grains, nuts and pit fruits. Medium bodied and smooth. Intense flavors of blackened malts, ripe pit fruits, malted chocolate. A rich, complex porter here, I like this better than Nogne’s Imperial Stout. Excellent. 10/26/07

50 cl bottle. Black with big beige head. Flavour is roasted malt, liquorice, coffee and bitter.

[2nd Low Countries RateBeer meeting] Aroma of roasted coffee malts with some black currant fruitiness. Black coloured with a medium, brown head. Taste is quite smooth. Roasted coffee malt, some fruit and sweetness. Slightly dry. Well balanced taste. Very nice.

courtesy of retorp Pours black with beige head, some golden lacing. Aroma malty, chocolate with light notes of coffee and dark raisins. Taste was similar, chocolate malts, mild dark fruit presence, thick palate. A fine porter.

Tap at Capones. Pours a deep brown with a medium creamy tan head that laced. Aroma of caramel, chocolate, tobacco, leather and coffee. Flavor of the same with hints of cherry.

Bottle: Black coffee, burnt caramel edges, moderate sand colored head, settles quickly, with very nice lacing.   Pale roasted malt aroma, even softer hop.   Milk sugar like sweetness, with a very soft porterish flavor profile.   Seems like a "Milk Porter".   Moderate body and mouthfeel.   Lactic like finish.   I thought it was a decent porter, but a bit light overall.

Dark brown, almost black, with a big, tan head, leaving lacing alongside the glass. Citrus (grapefruit) and floral aromas are the first to meet the nose, underneath there are roasted espresso-like aromas as well. Espresso roastiness, some sweet fruit, good bitterness, some grapefruit. Dry finish. Medium carbonation, rather soft. The best beer from the excellent Nøgne Ø brewery?

Black beer. Thick brown head. Roasted malt nose with a hint of chocolate. Chocolate taste up front. Huge building roast flavour. Sharp aluminum chocolate finish.