Sigtuna Ace of Spades 2010 Imperial Stout

Formerly brewed at Sigtuna Brygghus
Style: Imperial Stout
Arlandastad, Sweden

Serve in Snifter

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(Bottle) pours dark brown to black with light brown head. The aroma is sweet and roasted with some underlying resiny hops and alcohol. Lots of brown sugar. Undertones of Ginger/spices, asphalt, dried fruits, fruity bitter cocoa, salt liquorice, sweet black currant, grainy dark bread and figs. I like the nose and I am not a bif fan of high alcohol beers. The flavour is near heavily sweet, medium bitter, light salty and tiny acidic. Tones of brown sugar, mild spices, fruity dark chocolate, dark fruits, numbing alcohol and fainted hops. The mouthfeel is clean, bit round, light sticky and light carbonated. Sweet and bitter chocolate roast on the finish. Medium bodied.

Bottle: tand mr Rask: Black colour, Brown head. Aroma of fruits,citrus, caramelly, licquiry, some raisins too was there in the end! Flavor: a bomb! Of fruits, alcy, caramell, malts, citrus, dark ,licquri , dry fruity finish! À huge body and à looong finish! Well done Mattias!

Bottle. Pours almost pitch black. Big, toasted nose, malt, chocolate, coffe beans, alcohol, dried fruits, marmite. Full bodied, thick texture, quite noticeable residual sweetness. Very rich, malty, toasted malt, coffee, vanilla, dried fruits, chocolate, warming alcohol, bitterness rounded off by sweetness. Long, warm aftertaste, driedf fruits, barley wine notes, alcohol lingers. Well made, could need a few years in the bottle. (2010-11-21)

Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a dark brown amber color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish malty licorice hoppy aroma with hints of caramel. Sweetish malty hoppy bitter dark fruit flavor with hints of caramel. Has a sweetish malty hoppy bitter caramel finish with hints of alcohol in the aftertaste.

Bottled:
Colour is black with ruby edges. Head looks ok. Aroma is salty liquorice with light notes of smoked meat. Flavours more salty liquorice with smoked meat leading to a warming finish.

33 cl bottle from Systembolaget. Dark borwn/Black colour with small, tan head. Some lacing. Smells of chocolate. figs, fruits and oak. Flavour is sweet with some bitter notes. Not much bitterness. Medium to full bodied with quite some alcoholic notes. Very nice to sip.

Bottled at Stockholm Beer and Whisky Festival 2010. Opaque brown color. The aromas of raisins, apple, dark bread and oak. Sweet flavor with raisins, dark sugar, oak, coffee and dark chocolate. Fairly complex, but too sugary for me.

Sampled at SBWF-10 Almost black. Small bubbly beige head. Roasted with coffee and chocolate. Sweet with warming alcohol. Slightly oily palate. Complex with loads of flavours.

Bottled. A pitch black beer with a lazing brown head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, hops, and roasted malt. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of alcohol, roasted malt, hops, and chocolate, leading to a dry finish. The body is thick and the mouthfeel smooth.

Sample@SBWF’10. Pours almost black with a light brown head. Looks quite heavy and thick. The aroma is massive with a lot of raisins and coffee together with the sweet roasted malts. The alcohol is there but not as much as expected. Very rich mouth is very malty and a bit too sweet, also tonnes of dried fruit and some chocolate. The alcohol is hidden nicely. A nice beer that is very powerful, but perhaps it’s to straight forward and lack some complexity to really give you value in line with its high price.