Dugges 1/2 Idjit!

Brewed by Dugges Ale & Porterbryggeri
Style: Imperial/Strong Porter
Mölndal, Sweden

50 cl bottle, via sk8viking. Pours a clear dark brown body with a large frothy light brown head that retained for ever. Very active visible carbonation. The nose is quite hoppy with lots of roasted and chocolate malts, some coffee and cocoa powder, earthy yeast, and some nutty dryness. Luscious fresh brewed coffee, roast, and dry nuttiness up front. The finish is rather bitter and a bit bitingly astringent and burnt with a good deal of hoppiness. Very dry overall. There’s a metallic note that comes on late in the finish that I don’t care for too much. Mouthfeel is a bit too over carbonated, but after it settled a bit it got a little more of a clingy oily texture. Overall, pretty decent, but the more of it I drank, the more the astringency and metallic flavors became a problem for me.

500. Thanks, Maria! Black with rubied highlights and a dense, creamy tan head. Absolutely spectacular nose of coffee, nuts, toast, chocolate, and black bread. Creamy medium body. Coffee, chocolate, roast, nuts, toast, and black bread on the mid-palate. Long coffee finish.

rbesg07 grand tasting, bottled. pretty dark brown with a tan head, potent aroma of mudcake, vanilla pods and pipe tobacco, mellow and warming, plenty of burnt chocolate bitterness, very tasty

On tap at European Beer Festival, Copenhagen. Served a next to black body under a tan head leaving nice lacings. Coffee, chocolate and roasted malt in the aroma. It is very smooth in the mouth, full-bodied and somehow dryish, even though it is sugary sweet. Coffee, burnt malt, some chocolate and a little hoppy bitterness too. Long coffee-like finish with coffee-like bitterness too. Lovely. (080913)

Bottle from Vinens Verden. First impression is a lot of licorice and it is the final result I still have of this beer in my mind. Maybe not what I had expected, but I must try it again.

Bottle. Nice creamy tan head with excellent duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are rich with coffeebut also very dominated by coffee. Some licorice, chocolate and roast malt as well.

50 cl bottle, poured a lightbrown thick creamy mostly lasting head. Nice aroma of coffee and chocolate which also dominates the flavor but there is also some really harsh bitterness and acidic taste which doesn’t appeal to me.

Had this at the European Beer Festival Kobenhaven 13-09-08 Thanks to Craig for informing me that I’d put this beer in the wrong place (originally rated as full Idjit by accident) Pouring dark brown, this beer was grainy biscuity in fact bourbon chocolate cream. Had lovely thick mouthfeel, really nice.