Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter

Brewed by Närke Kulturbryggeri
Style: Imperial Stout
Örebro, Sweden

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?

Deep black in colour with a thin tan head and light lacing. The aroma is of vanilla, bourbon, roasted malts, some alcohol but all the while rather sweet. The flavour is warming, quite sweet, creamy, vanilla, roasted malts and some oak. Warm and sweet mouthfeel, medium/large body, medium carbonation. Finishes long, warming and quite bitter.

This intensified more and more as I drank this. The alcohol is quite warm at time and the chocolate picks up at the end. Initially I really didn’t care all that much for this. My initial rating was a 3.6 but the more I drank this the more flavours came out. Lots of smoke started to come out as did some oak. The body starts to intensify as it warms as well and the mouthfeel became really silky. Very good, world class.

250ml bottle obtained in a trade with a very generous ratebeerian, thanks, you know who you are.
Opened on October 8, 2008.
Vintage 2006.

Bottle at Toms Ultimate Glasgow Tasting: Poured a deep dark brown with a tan color head. The aroma is fruit and roastedness with slight liquorish. The taste is roasted coffee with a liquorish finish.

250. Thanks, Thewolf and after4ever! Pours opaque black with a thick, tight lacy brown head. Sweet aroma of coffee, brown sugar, vanilla and licorice. All the same flavors from the aroma swirling around in the taste. Woody finish. Sadness as I discover the empty bottom of my glass.

Black with small beige head.Aroma like Dark chocolate and smoked like a cigar ashtrey but a good cigar.Nice warm feeling of alc.Just perfect.

Bottle 2006 vintage: Pours black with a small creamy tan head. Aroma, oak and some boozy notes, vanilla, chocolate, and some toffee. Flavor, woody and roasty up front, chocolate, toffee and vanilla round it out, some dark fruits, and a bit of ash, some coffee like bitterness. It finishes with some bready and boozy notes. Twas pretty good. Thanks to the Columbus guys for sharing.

Very generously traded by an amazing ratebeerian. Thanks so much for the opportunity to try this one!!
Pours a dark black with a medium lived dark tan head in a snifter. Smell is very well balanced and aromatic with bourbon, oak, and smooth rich chocolatey malt. Taste is dark chocolate and smooth balanced bourbon and oak with a light hint of a warming feeling with no burn or alcoholic flavor. Decent mouthfeel, but a bit thinner than I prefer for imperial stouts. Finishes with a lightly bitter dark chocolate flavor. This was definitely an amazing beer, and surprisingly didn’t disappoint. Thanks again!

1400th rating. Bottle 2007 @ Tre Små Rum, Götheborg. Reserved by Gnoff for my visit. It definitely lives up to its rating. pours a thick black with thin off white head and golden lacing. Aroma of roasted malts, some wood and whiskey notes are present in the nose, coupled with dark fruits. Taste, palate is just gorged with nice malts, caramel, light roastiness of coffee. The oak wood is light and adds a nice dimension to the beer, chocolate. Finish is superb as well, onctuous malts with barrel/wood and a warming alcohol coats the palate. Easy to sip on for hours and enjoy new flavor as the beer warms up, seemed to have gained in dark fruits. Well worth the price. Add to it, the amazing comapny and ambiance of Tre Små Rum and this was an outstanding brew.