Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter

Brewed by Närke Kulturbryggeri
Style: Imperial Stout
Örebro, Sweden

2006 bottle. huge thanks to kan (pantanap) for sharing this rare gem. pours black with swirling tan creamy head. looks great but also thin. the aroma is really roasty with soft bourbon notes, dark chocolate, coconut, nuts, and vanilla. flavor is intense roast with coffee, dark chocolate, vanilla, and mild dark fruits in the finish. finises dry, nutty, and isn’t that long. the carbonation is wonderfully smooth. alcohol isn’t noticed at all. really drinkable stuff. the nose was amazing but the flavor didn’t quite match up.

Bottle, RBESG 2007 in Glasgow, Grand Tasting. Pitch black colour, creamy brown head. Very nice aroma of chocolate and roasted malts, hints of oak. Intensely rich and complex flavour: oaky, vinous, roasty, chocolate, liquorice. An excellent beer, but so is the "ordinary" Stormaktsporter.

A huge thanks to WeeHeavySD for sharing this at the Woodshop#3 tastitng. Thick, chocolatey, roasty, very tasty. Got some dried fruit in the flavor too. Complex & tasty in every way.

2006 Vintage

4/25/2009: Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter had a touch act to follow behind the Kuhnhenn Fifth Dementia, but it still held it’s own very well (although it might have seems a little bit more bitter than it really is due to the massive sweetness of the preceeding beer!). Kaggen Stormaktsporter has a rich, deeply caramelized, and chocolate flavor. Coffee comes through when it gets warmer. Actually, this beer is very similar in intensity to the Fifth Dimensia with more hops and bitterness. There are also great sweet char and licorice characteristcs present in the flavor of this beer. To be honest, this beer really does have just about all of the flavors I would want in a great Imperial Stout plus enough alochol to back it up without being too much. This is a damn fine and goes down far to easily!

Sample from bottle shared by at Dark Lord Day 2009! Thank you so very much Craig. This is really one of those beers that I would probably never been able to try at any time in my life had it not beed for your kindness and generosity. I really appreciate it! Rating #255 for this beer.

0.25 l bottle (2006 vintage) at SOPP2008, Helsinki. Pitch black color with small creamy tan head. Sweet aroma with plenty and vanilla and whisky, coffee and chocolate is more on the background. Rich flavor with bourbon, vanilla, coffee, chocolate, salty licorice and sherry. Very warming and a bit sharp palate. Excellent dessert but I prefer the ordinary stormakts porter as this is slightly too whiskyish.

I have to keep my benefactor under wraps, per their request, but suffice to say it’s a them and I thank them profusely and promise to show my thanks very soon. This bottle is a 2006 vintage. <P> The aroma is beef bouillon, soy, dark chocolate, burnt and roasted malts and marshmallows with faint porto notes. The beer pours a gloppy black and settles with a thinnish mocha head, but initially the head is finger thickness and creamy looking. <P> The first sip is fairly boozy and the barrel aging is immediate and unmistakeable imparting vanilla, pineapple and coconut notes. I also get some nutty Maderia notes and gobs of dark chocolate. Fairly hot on the swallow with a cream and chocolate chaser. It almost tastes like a dark chocolate liqueur. The finish makes me think of a vanilla liqueur with faint nutty and chocolate notes that invoke german chocolate cake. A very enjoyable beer that is definitely not a product of hype or hysteria. Now, if they could brew this en masse for a larger market I would be truly amazed....and an exceedingly loyal buyer.

Bottle @ DTE. Pours pitch black with a dense medium sized brown head. Very very nice and well balanced. Great complexety and creamy feel - notes of chocolate, coffee, dark dried fruit, woody dryness and of course hops. Very nice.

Bottle (vintage ’06) shared with yngwie@The Rover, Göteborg. Pours an opaque near black body, just a shade away from pitch black. A beautiful creamy one-finger espresso head slowly shrinking to thin islands of foam. The aroma is vinous, powerful and complex, still extremely smooth and mellow . Lots of delicate sweetness from toasted dark malts. Cocoa, dark chocolate, mild coffee is dominating, followed by inviting scents of vanilla, honey, alcohol-soaked dried fruits and some wooden notes. Big fat body. Mouthfeel is oily and smooth as velvet. Very tasty, and as complex as it gets. Refined dark malts with a delightful sweetness in charge. Accompanied by oak and vanilla, coffee and chocolate, figs and raisins. A mild and gentle bitterness underneath. A barely noticable alcohol heath in the mouth. Some distant notes of rum, licorice, almonds and roast. The finish lingers forever. This beer is no hype, it’s divine! Does beer get better than this?