Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter

Brewed by Närke Kulturbryggeri
Style: Imperial Stout
Örebro, Sweden

Thanks to Fordest for this gem. Although this beer is very hyped it was still excellent. Pours dark, dark brown no light passes through this, with a minimal head. Aroma of coffee, malt, alcohol, toasted nuts,and caramel. Flavors of sweet malt, caramel, and alcohol. Very warming.

When you got in the glass it foaming beautiful and get a nice aroma of coffe and chocolate in the hole surroundings. In the mouth it is round and flavor rich. And when you had swollow it you just want anouther sip. Almost a perfect beer.

Thanks to fordest for sharing this one. I was worried the hype wouldn’t live up to the beer. I was wrong this is an excellent imperial stout. Strong aroma of roasted malts, some wood, and sweetness. Flavors were excellent.

330ml Bottle I found it at three places. Monks Cafe: 450:- Macinleys Inn: 245:- Glennfidich: 225:- Where i bought it. This doesn’t effekt my rating though. The rating is accurate according to how the beer tasted and felt. I had some dark chocolate just to get the right taste to it and it was okay. A very strong tastefull beer.

Bottle. 2006 version at Den Tatoverede Enke. Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Heavy malty and moderate hoppy aroma. Powerfull vanilla and honey notes, no smoke. Moderate bitter flavor. Strong caramellic notes, almost "Bailey-like". Fantastic long moderate bitter finish. Exstremely creamy wonderfull palate. To strong caramellic notes too become truly fantastic, but really great stuff. Way too expensive!

Bottle at "den tatoverede enke". Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste wonderful. Lots of licorice, roast malt and chocolate mixed with honeylike sweetness and wood.

Bottle shared with extreme generosity by jjpm74. Poured dark brown with light ruby highlites and a small creamy brown head. Already much lighter than what I expected from what was purported to be an imperial stout. Rich sweet aroma of dark bittersweet chocolate, butterscotch, and brown sugar. Taste is sweet chocolate, a bit of woodiness, and some floral essences in alcohol, finishing more towards roasted coffee. Although the alcohol is present, this does not taste like a 10% beer at all, as the flavors and the body almost have a delicate feel to them. Very nice combination of bitter and sweet leads me to think that this would be an excellent dessert beer. What Dark Lord gets right in being big, this beer does in being refined. Though I could not call it a stout, I would say it is arguably the finest porter I’ve ever tasted.
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Westy’s better though...

Many thanks to Per for hooking me up with a bottle of this beer. Pours dark brown with red hints and a light brown head. Smells of fruit, spices, chocolate, hints of oak and cherries, boozy in a complimentary way, caramel. Tastes of chocolate, dark fruit, hints of warming alcohol, lots of burnt coffee hints, caramel, dry oak, charcoal. Mouthfeel is oily and slick and the finish on ths one yields a nice oak character. I could easily drink this all winter if I were local to one of the places that sell it.