Nøgne Ø Porter

Brewed by Nøgne Ø
Style: Porter
Grimstad, Norway

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Copenhagen beer marathon 2004. Black color, roasted malt, coffee liquorice aroma and taste, medium body, light alcoholic finish.

Bottles from oh6gdx, Liquid Solutions. Pours dark brown with a thin ring of bubbles. Smells of caramel, fruit, some tea and pepper. Tastes of sweet chocolate, caramel, some bitter chocolate and spices. Palate is full and syruppy. Finish is sweet and lasting.

UPDATED: JUL 27, 2010 500ml bottle.
Pours jet black, with an espresso head. Fantastic hoppy aroma, with loads of rich dark chocolate. And what a delightful taste! Burnt darkly roasted malt, crisp bitter highlights, some gingerness too. And my - what a long aftertaste carrying all of the above. Covers the alcohol very well too. (8-5-9-4-16=4.2)
Cellared rerate: Bottled 191006, BB 191009, drunk 270710
Pours the same still, but did need encouragement to form a head. Aroma still beautifully roasty and chocolatey. Wonderfully subtle roasty stout taste - it’s all there, but there’s no punch in the face. Palate perhaps a little thinner than I remember, but still a full taste. Hops a bit drier, and letting the burntness of the roast come through a little more harshly than before. To put points on this, I’d probably drop the aroma, taste, and overall by 1 which is a very healthy 3.9
An interesting experiment to see if the beer would survive 4 years, and the answer is that it does, rather well. Bravo Nogne!

Irregular light brown head covers the not so opaque dark brown body. Strongly fruity nose, bursting with grapes and currants, complex and juicy. Additional suggestions of minerals, floral hops, leather would add more deepnedd were they better integrated. Finishing with a watery tang, due to a particularly thin body with very mellow carbonation. Competent alcohol dissimulation. Dryish ashey-dark chocolate malts and floral hops complete the otherwise sweet portrait. Some good individual flavors, but quite small in size and not as cohesive as I’d hoped.

Intense yet smooth roast flavour with some coffee, black colour. Some quality bittersweet dark chocolate. Also malt and licorice. Good porter, not complex yet satisfying pint, well carbonated, fresh from Norway thanks to trade with Madsberg.

Bottle from Capone’s. Deep black pour with 1-finger tan head. Aroma of roasty malt, chocoff, molasses, and hops. Tastes roasty malty, on the dry side, with a big chocoff element, plus hops. Very complex palate that stays rather dry but gets fruitier, roastier, and more chocolatey as it warms. Bottle conditioning helps this one.

Bottled. Poured a clear, deep mahogany with garnet highlights and a creamy cap of dark-ish toffee head... I would have given it a "5" for the initial look.. but a quick recession lost a point. Even before this had a chance to breathe, I could tell that the aroma was fantastic!... dark and calculated deeply-roasted chocolate, singed molasses, and ample doses of fresh, medium-roasted coffee.. just drew me right in! Flavor doesn’t really skip a step.. well-roasted cocoa, semi-sweet, chocolate, and light espresso form a wonderful base that supports coffee bitterness along with some herbal and woodsy notes.. left a long finish with dueling sweet chocolate and coffee bitterness.. along with some random lactic notes. Just a bit heavier than medium-bodied with great flow and balance.. long and enjoyable finish. This was magnificent!

Roasted coffee, one dimentional in every way, i love this brewery but this is thier worst offering.