3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
From a 500mL Bottle. Pours a mostly opaque, blackish brown color with some coppery highlights edging the glass. A thick head of well sustaining charred foam floats easily on top. Lots of soft, medium roasted coffee in the nose with a pleasant chocolate maltiness. A hint of prune skins and toasted cashews, drizzled with some raspberry sauce; mostly though, it’s just a great chocolatey mocha coffee nose. Not too bitter, roasty, or tannic. Light to medium bodied, creamy carbonated mouthfeel. Some nutty almond chocolate starts out the palate, meets some mild raisins halfway through, and finishes with a more bittersweet intensity highlighting coffee and dark chocolate liquore. A smidgen of ash is left in the final smack. Lots of good solid flavors without much residual sweetness, allowing the malt bill complexities to speak for themselves without any gimmicky coaxing. It gets a little bit warm on the backend, but doesn’t detract too much from the experience. This is really one that I would classify as a stout, but they can call it whatever they want - at the end of the day, it’s still a pretty damn good beer.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Black of color with a brown head. An aroma of roasted malt, liqurice, coffee and smoke. A flavor of roasted malt, coffee, bitter and weak smoke.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
750 at the Seattle International Beerfest. Pours deep black with thin tan head. Big roasty ashy and coffee nose. Bold attack with firm carb, medium body, forward coffee roast and ash mid palate. Clean finish. Wonderful stuff.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Dark brown with a big tan head. Roasted with coffe and chocolate tones.
malty with al ot of coffee. Medium to full body with a long bitter finish.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
1pt 9oz bottle. Pours a very dark brown color with a rich dense light brown head. The smell is roasted coffee beans with hints of chocolate and caramel. Flavors of roasted coffee, bittersweet chocolate, dried flowers, earthy hops, bready malt, and dark fruit. A well balanced beer where the alcohol is well hidden. Medium bodied and very smooth with a nice slightly dry finish.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle, poured black with deep brown edges. Blackest porter I’ve ever had. Great roasty aroma, a bit of anise, cherry and vanilla. Great flavor, burnt malts with a sweetness that melds incredibly. This is a top notch porter. Norway is off to a good start in my book.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle from Quaffs, Spitalfields. As dark brown as most stouts with a thick malty tan head. Nose of sweet roasted malt and coffee, some yeast, honey, vanilla and dark chocolate also. Taste is coffee, baking chocolate and malt. Dry, powdery palate with liquorice, cocoa and hop notes in the swallow. Excelent brew, up there amongst the best I’ve had...
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
I saw this on sale for $8 when it had been $10 so I bought it despite the fact that it still was a pretty bad deal for a 500ml bottle of porter. It was black of course and smelled a little roasty but also a tinge of metallic so I knocked the score down. The taste was nice, sweet, roasty, pretty good. I will of course never buy a second bottle because it is just to expensive but this was a pretty good American porter with a robust flavor.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 05-01-2010 14:29:48
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