 beermatrix (1497), Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
Oct 24, 2007
Dark and heavy brown pour. Settles black as glossy coal. Huge, immensely thick roasty brown topping caps it like a crown with a creamy smooth and frothy sponge. Dwells upon the liquid for a good stretch and leaves massive chucks of lacing in cob webby stitchings.
Favorably roasted and large nose here. Lots of "Expedition"- like qualities with deep dark roasted tang, espresso, dry chocolate, burnt prune, smoked plum, and cooked cherry skins. Slightly large smokey ascents and prevalent burntness of cookie edges, cake, and really dark vanilla notes. Great spicyness of x-mas breads and ginger cookies too. Damn nice and straight up exceptional Impy nose!
Taste makes due with a spectacular array of fun roasty stuff. Dark deceptive, deep, and tangy with smoked dark fruit skins and spicey holiday breads. Smmmoooth...lasting deepness of well developed and rounded roastyness with a bit of espresso touching the burnt notes. Kinda like a silky smooth chocolate covered x-mas dark fruit bread or cake. A bit fudgey, a bit doughy, great hints to smoked/burnt stuff and loads of lasting taste and complexity. Yum, yum, yum, yum, Yum! Last third or so really turns into a silky chocolate dream.
Strong medium body, smooth, creamy, fluffy with a bit of texture to it. Chocolate toned sweetness, mild dark fruity tanged, and burnt fudgey cookie/cake all over the place. The finish is quite and chocolatey. The only real drag of the beer is that it really doesn’t have a finishing quality, but damn if it doesn’t make ya come back for more!
Ummm...you can label this brew as the best beer form Norway! Not that I’ve had a bunch from my native land, but from what I have had, this takes the silky smooth chocolate covered x-mas dark fruit cake! Too bad its so spendy...but well worth the adventure.
I could see having a bunch of these after cross country skiing or snow shoeing the big hills of anywhere. Norway representin’ y’all!
IDunno19 (22), Ames, Iowa, USA
Aug 23, 2008 Stumbled upon this on my last trip to Cyclone liquors and figured I"d give it a try. Usually not a big fan of stouts but this one was really enjoyable. Taste of coffee with dried plums and currant on the palate. Finish is a bloom of oaky and hazy flavors that’s a little sharp on the back of the palate but not too big. Pours black with a dark amber head. Great beer.
djtimeless (41), Alabama, USA
Aug 20, 2008 Pours out black with little brown head. Smells great. Taste slightly sweet chocolate with roasted coffee. A Thick an rich stout. Very tasty...
yumyum (51), barrie, Ontario, Canada
Aug 18, 2008 really good imperial. pours dark black with minimal head which dissipates quickly. very nice aroma, with a winey characteristic that reminds me slightly of black and black hole (which are 2 of my favs) The taste didn’t disappoint. Coffee and chocolate in the taste. Not as hoppy as other imperials. Slightly sweeter which I really enjoyed. Low carbonation. Really good brew
jetzler (576), oklahoma city, Oklahoma, USA
Aug 18, 2008 Bottle, pours a very dark black color with a thin tan head. Slightly sweet aroma, very subtle hops. Roasted coffee, chocolate, nice dry finish, Great body and compostion, a quality imperial stout, not as hoppy as I like but very good.
IPAaLLtHEwAY (106), La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
Aug 16, 2008 50cl bottle from Vinmonopolet. Batch 264. It poured a dark black colour with a big light-brown creamy head that settles down very slowly in the glass. The aroma smells of coffee, dark chocolate, licorice, malts and alcohol. The flavour is spicy and bitter and tastes of dark roasted coffee and malts, mocca and alcohol. It has a long, lingering aftertaste.
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