Valhalla Sjolmet Stout

Brewed by Valhalla
Style: Stout
Unst, Shetland, Scotland

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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[500ml bottle, Appellation Wines, Edinburgh] Deep brown pour, with a small, thin white head. Aroma is roasted chocolate, toasted malt and some slightly musty coffee. There’s a bit more coffee on the flavour, but the beer is mostly that toasted, chocolately malt. Finish is pretty quick, but there’s nothing really wrong with this at all. Decent beer indeed [18022013]

50cl bottle. Pours opaque brown with a crema head. This is a straightforward well made stout which has the typical chocolate aroma and taste. It’s fairly one-dimensional but it certainly does that one dimension well. A light to medium body with a nice clean finish. The best from this brewery.

On tap @ Henrik. this is a clear dark brown one - some redness shining through and it has a lively little heavy lacing grey dense top. on the nose it’s not extreme. Some sweetness, nuts and not much more really. Mild and a bit blend. No sweetness at all - as the aroma lead me to believe. It’s near flat on the carbonation. A bit creamy almost in the thin texture. Strange chalky flavors. Dry and nutty-bitter with traces of tobacco smoke and soil. Thin dry and slightly papery finish with traces of cold old coffee. I can safely say that this was no favorite, but all in all it’s actually not that bad either. Just not completely mine thing 18.01.2013

On tap @ Henrik, Bergen. Pours an unexpected deep coppery brown body with a small creamy off-white head. Aroma is caramel, chocolate, licorice and hints of nuts and dark sugars. Taste is peaty nut tones, licorice and dark malts. Full body, medium carbonation. Ok ale, but...stout? Get outta here. :-P ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Bottle from Tomlinsons Beer Shop, Inverness. It pours dark brown, with a medium off-white head. The nose is dark fruit, vinous, roasted malt, cocoa powder and coffee. The taste is roasted malt, bitter chocolate, coffee, rather dry and charcoal, with a bitter finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. A pretty solid stout.

Tasted this stout at the Troon Beer Festival, Troon concert hall in October 2010. Cask, gravity dispense. Dull black in colour with a very thin open head which quickly vanished. Malty aroma with a slight suggestion of cocoa powder. Cracking smooth creamy mouthfeel. Roast malt in this with full grain in the mouth. Dark malts give a rather fruity sweetness with ripe bramble and blackcurrants duly noted. A hint of molasses and mocha coffee in the flavours but more in the background as sweet fruit dominates. Barley grain note comes through in the aftertaste to give a weak bitter taste. Bramble fruit once again comes through in the sweet fruity finish. Although this is a stout it does seem to cross over into the old ale/porter styles - not one to be pigeon holed! Highly recommended and for me, the best ale in their portfolio.

500 ml bottle. Dark amber with a big creamy tan head. Aroma of roasted malt and coffee. Flavor of sweet, roasted malt, mocha, coffee and slightly fruity. The finish is mild bitter and hint of acidity. Nothing really extraordinary but a well crafted stout.

Cask, gravity, at The Cambridge Blue, Cambridge, in the 3rd CB Festival ’10. Dark brown. Sweet malt aroma with a hint of wood and cocoa. Sweet, leathery raisins in the taste and some bitterness.

Tasted at Cardinal, Stavanger. Pours deep brown with a small off-white head. Weak roasted malt aroma, taste is medium sweet, traces of chocolate, low bitterness at the end. Average.

Bottle. Clear dark brown colour with a medium frothy off-white head. Aroma and taste is roasted, fruity with notes of licorice and hops. Thin mouthfeel.