Mikkeller Black Hole

Bottle. Pours a thin obsidian body with a thin tan head. Aromas of bitter chocolate, steam (weird, I know) and a whole lot of booze. The flavors had more notes of dried dark fruit, honey and roasted peanuts but the roasted malts and bitter chocolate still stayed strong. Immense amounts of boozey alcohol burn with a thin mouthfeel. Really this tasted like a supremely fine liquer and would have made a mean Martini if shaken with vodka. Damn, that sounds good.

Tap at Plan B. Poured black with a tan head. Aroma was chocolaty with a hint of alcohol. Taste of roasted notes and chocolate and alcohol. Pretty good.

Black with small tan head that disappears. Black Russian with chocolate aroma. Taste reminds me of a bittersweet Spanish coffee overpowered by alcohol.

12 oz bottle from mreusch, thank you Matt! I feel bad even rating this already since I’ve not even sent yours in return yet, but thank you! Black hole... No shit! I poured about 4 oz. into a Corsendonk Christmas Ale glass, and there is no light that passes through this, even held up in front of a light bulb! Black with a short lived, thin, mocha tan head! Alcohol, light coffee, brown sugar sweetness and malt, fresh crushed malt, light caramel and dark fruit, and an herbal hop aroma that I can’t quite place between all the other aromas; All in the nose at first. A fruity chocolate follows, but I can’t distinguish the fruitiness. A moderate toffee as it warms... Also some spicy yeast character. And that’s just the nose! Flavor is sweet up front, chocolatey, lightly coffee, lightly tart from dark grains mid palate. Caramel, toasty malt, fig fruit, dark molasses slightly burnt/acrid flavor as it warms, but not strong. Actually adds to the complexity of the flavor. Toffee and toasty malt, but an odd sweet/tart balance throughout from the grains. Finish is lighlty coffee and toasty malt flavored. Very slight touch of smoke, hop flavor and other spice in the aftertaste. medium body, very light carbonation and well hidden alcohol, but the mouth dries out in the finish. I like it, but I’m not enamored with it! It’s well made technically, but I’m not sure I like the odd sweet/tart balance that dominates the flavor from up front almost to the finish. It’s a good sipper, but I’m not sure I’d want more than 1 of these in a night, and not just because of the alcohol.

2007 bottle @ BA Järntorget. Pours pitch black with no head. Amazing aroma of complex malts (brown, roasted, toasted, bread and biscuits), hops (Simcoe?), black pepper, rose pepper, cardamom, tutti frrutti candy. Initially a sour taste that transforms into salt licorice. Medium to thin body, but balanced by flavorful malts.

Black beer with a dark brown head that slowly dissappears. Complex sweetish aroma: mokka, coffee, chocolate, cherry licor (mon cherry like), dark fruits, ... Mokka taste, tintling on the tongue, some bitterness at the end coming from the burned malts. The alcohol is very well hidden.

Brewed in Denmark........ Pours black in color with reddish hues and a thin beige head. Aroma of molasses, dark malts, alcohol and coffee. The taste has a bitter sweet chocolate flavor with roasted malts, vanilla and a medium alcohol burn. The mouthfeel is medium in body with a dry, but pleasant alcohol finish. This beer was in celebration of the great comeback in silly philly today. :)

black with tan white head.strong aroma of coffe and chocolate.flavor of coffe,chocolate,roasted malt.finishes with touch of alcohol and notes of licorice