Beer Here Mørke Pumpernickel Porter

Beer Here
Brewed at Nøgne Ø
Style: Porter
Copenhagen, Denmark

Pours a rich brown appropriate for style. Flavor dominated by dark malts (carafa) with a bright note (from rye probably) and a smoke note. There is also some esters, rather than super clean lager yeast notes. Residual sugars balance the alcohol leaving a sweet finish.

Bottle thanks to blutt59. Black in color with a good sized tan head. Aroma is of coffe, chocolate and bread. Taste is of pumpernickel, coffee, spices, and earth.

Bottle. Poured black with a nice woody brown head. Aroma was full of roasted malts, a bit of rye, cinnamon and a touch of coffee. Flavor had strong roasted malts with undertones of rye, cinnamon and coffee. Smooth and thick on the tongue.

Half liter bottle. Pours almost black with a light brown head. Aroma of some chocolate, roast and spices: mint, and a fairly strong hop presence- citrus, floral, slightly piney. A good amount of caramel and toffee as well. Taste is very malty, with roast, coffee, licorice, caramel, toffee and brown sugar. A good amount of hop presence with citrus and pine. I was hoping to get more rye or more specifically caraway. regardless, this was a very nice beer. Bitterness gets fairly strong in the finish.

.5 liter bottle, from Wine and Liquor Outlet- Boonton, NJ. Pours a rich dark black with a nice lasting foamy tight light khaki head. Aroma is sligith minty green fresh pnw hops, toast, toffee sweetness, roast, char, chocolate, and some coffee- lots of green piny hops, and a sharp moderate amount of licorice and anise, and root beer- which added with the pnw hops kinda seems like mt rainier on steroids. Flavor is cola, root beer, licorice root, pine mint, moderate toffee and malty sweetness, ok roast, low chocolate, low to med coffee with a dry mineral chalk-like finish- smooth and a fading mouthfeel and a fleeting aftertaste- bitterness is ok though. I didn’t get enough pumpernickel overall like I had expected or wanted, but it turned into a very unique, hopped out herbed out export stout. Pretty tasty and easy drinking.

Bottle. Pours a beautiful creamy dark shinny brown with a fantastic dense tall foamy light mocha colored head that fades into a nice froth. Aroma is quite complex, at first quite roasty and robust, then some gin like juniper berry, then becomes very sweet and bright, fennel and vanilla, yams, lots of spicy rye, some very smooth creamy chocolate, does a pretty good job of resembling pumpernickel, lots of elements. Flavor follows but is more earthy, flavor is quite close to pumpernickel, spicy and a touch of bright sweetness, rye bread but mixed with sour cream, touch of chocolate, some hop bitterness, some of that buttery vegetable character, slightly dull and muted, touch of hard roast, lots of fennel, a bit metallic in the aftertaste. Medium/full bodied, very creamy with some sharper sizzling carbonation, oily and slick. I’m not sure why this one isn’t in the spice/herb/vegetable category... it clearly belongs there.

20091219 50cl bottle from State Line. Darkest brown with a thick brown head that lasts, the beer has a thick, viscous appearance and coats the glass. Aroma has a rich, fruity beginning with prune, blueberry, and some dark cocoa, but with a bit of swirling the rye emerges as well as a sour yeastiness and the beer unquestionably does smell like pumpernickel bread. I’ll be damned. Mouthfeel is rich and lush up front and creamy across the middle with an unctuousness that tends toward sticky without ever getting sweet. A fair amount of roasted dark malt flavor that adds an intriguing earthy quality, leather and shoe polish, cigar. Nice beer.

Batch # 425. Black with a huge creamy brown and lasting head. Beautiful! Aroma of roasted barley, soy sauce and coffee. Sweet and acidic taste. Medium bodied and a milky smooth mouth feel. Recommended! (Bottle, courtesy of tarjei 12.12.2009)