Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter

2006 bottle shared by WeeheavySD, via trade with Magic Dave. #1000 for Jon, #400 for me. Poured balck with a nice layer of light brown bubles. roasty notes in the big nose. Flavor had some great roast coffee and chocolate flavor I’ve got vanilla as well as just a little bit of alcohol,. as the beer warmed in the ridel snifter, i got extra carmel and toffee notes and the presecence of honey. A great complex brew. It didn’t blow me away like the first time i had speedway, but a damn good beer.

2006 vintage courtesy of the unbelievable generosity of Ughsmash. Many thanks for knocking out the last of the beers I most sought out.

Ah, Kaggen - how you have eluded me all this time. So many perfect scores have been bestowed on you. So many arguments have been fought over whether you are the best beer in the world. Finally my time has come to evaluate all the hype and praise.

In a nutshell, if falls far short of expectations. The aroma was very nice. The excellence of barrel-aging was very evident in both the aroma and flavour. This alone allows me to appreciate the high degree of skill that was involved in this process. However, there was a stark lack of balance here with each flavour component seeming a bit disjointed from the others. The body was also a tremendous letdown for me as I was expecting something quite....well, "imperial" in nature. I got very ordinary and run-of-the-mill. Nothing huge in regards to the viscosity. Which is fine if there’s a multitude of complexity and refinement in the flavour as was evident in the original batch of black hole from Mikkeller, for example. However, while there were some interesting vinous notes along with some nice use of specialty grains, it was all rather uninspiring.

An out of this world experience in my books! This beer was just perfect (and more). Drinking it was such a multifaceted experience, and to add to it all I was also in the most <a href="http://ratebeer.com/View-User-9002.htm"> perfect company , finishing the most perfect dinner of mussels at Akkurat in Stockholm.

(Bottle@Snaditipu) black as pitch, smells like likorice and tastes also the same. this has so many flavours.. probably the best beer in the world

2006 vintage per Jason! The beer pours to a dark black body. There’s a nice creamy beige head too. The aroma is amazing. Absolutely amazing. Balanced vanilla, bourbon, chocolate, and vinous wines. The flavor is of rich chocolate, subtle bourbon, oak, strong black patent malt. Nice vinous characteristics. Creamy roasted bitter black malt palate.

Special thanks to hopscotch for saving a slice of this even though we were running late for the tasting. Dark brown, muddy. Rich, tarry, boozy aroma. Tarry body, too, hot, woody with thick chewy malts. The added boozy, woody notes of the barrel interferes with what was otherwise a wonderfully malty beer.

Thanks MikeTD for this brew. Very black, thin dissapating tan head. Aroma is soy sauce, licorice, caramel, chocolate, oak. Taste is chocolate smoke, toffee,caramel, whiskey, light alcohol. A lot of depth.

Nip bottle from miketd shared by Enniskillen; Nose of raisins, molasses, chocolate, smoke, and woody oaky vanillin; black with a very dark cinnamon head; flavor of woody oak, chocolate, vanilla, and BBQ smoke. Finish is chocolate and light alcohol.