Midnight Sun Venus

Formerly brewed at Midnight Sun Brewing Company
Style: Abt/Quadrupel
Anchorage, Alaska USA

Bottle. Wow! Now this is one very good beer. Huge, fluffy head on top of a black pour. Creamy, full mouthfeel. Leather, tobacco, vanilla, and dark grit flavor. Excellent.

Bottle. Pours dark brown with a large, creamy, off-white head, mostly lasting with excellent, thick lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (cookie, caramel, toffee), light hop (grass), average yeast (earth, broth) with notes of figs, dates, apples, oak, wine, and vanilla. Full bodied, creamy texture, average carbonation, and a sweet, slightly dry finish. Long duration, moderate sweetness and acidity, light bitterness.

Pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Smells of dark fruit, some molasses, bread pudding, caramel. Tastes of toffee, dark fruit, spices, nutty, earthy. Alcohol is well masked in this one and the mouthfeel is a wonderful velvety molasses and dark fruit. Excellent beer!

Big thanks to savnac for this one. Pour is beautiful deep brown with a huge tan head. Aroma is very rich; full of brown sugar, vanilla, notes of wood, and dried fruits. Flavor is luscious and full. Roasted malt, vanilla and light sweetness to start. Then the barrel comes through; wood, fruits, and the Cab comes through way at the end. It lingers. It’s earthy with plums, dates, and a hint of sweetness. Alcohol is no where to be found. Wow, wonderful stuff.

Bottle courtesy of my buddy from AK Chaz! Holy!!! Nose is Booze, Rich malt sweetness, liquorice, belgian spicy yeast, ripe dark fruits and wood. Flavor is an intense medley of bread, liquorice, sweet roasted malt, chocolate, slight tart fruit, vanilla, wood and figs. Body is chewy. Damn fine beer.

Bottle shared by JW77. Reddish pour. Tan head. Sweet and malty aroma with molasses, yeast, honey, and some black twizzlers. Flavor has some of the licorice, yeast, fruit, molasses and some light tartness. Good damn beer!

22 oz. bottle. This brew pours a dark reddish-brown with a tan head. The flavors of this beer change as it warms up towards room temperature. One of the most complex tasting beers I’ve tried in quite some time. Fruits, caramel, licorice, candy sugar hints come through with the addition of the oak from the aging in the cabernet barrels. Lovely beer.

Bottle courtesy of jsquire: I absolutely, positively enjoyed the living piss out of this brew...but not until I came back to it later in the evening. Pour was a dark mahogany with a big, rocky tan head. Initially the nose on this threw me way off, I couldn’t pick up anything and it led me to brush it off. After I came back to it later though, wow...huge herbal character, mainly anise and mint leaves. Additional notes of belgian candy sugar, oak and some vinous characteristics also were apparent. The flavor on this was big on the dry, vinous side of things...the oak really seems to have melded well with the anise and brings out this thoroughly unique flavor that I don’t ever remember experiencing. The belgian candy flavors compliment nicely along with some roasted maltiness. Great brew!