Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter

Brewed by Närke Kulturbryggeri
Style: Imperial Stout
Örebro, Sweden

Bottle with a huge thanks to Marsiblursi! this comes from memory from earlier today as it was drank on the way to go pike fishing....Pours a deep rich brown with a decent tan head that holds well to the glass. The aroma is fantastic of dark fruit, some coffee, dark chocolate, some peat, and some alcohol. The taste is absolutely wonderful of the above smells, with some brown sugary sticky goodness on the palate. The alcohol is by no means over powering, but is enough to let you know its there. finish and mouthfeel is creamy smooth with a light lactose presence. If only I had some more....First class stout all the way.

Thanks to WeeHeavySD for sharing! Dark dark brown with a small tan head. Incredibly intense aroma of roasted malt, with coffee and chocolate notes. Flavor starts with a bitter roasted malt, then mellows to a sweeter woodsy and chocolate taste, before ending on a sharper note. Huge, warm mouthfeel. Very rich and big imperial stout.

Secret Santa hooked this one up!!! The dilemma is this, I have convinced myself that this is indeed going to be the singular greatest beer I have yet to consume, causing me to ponder if this will actually live up to the billing. Upon pouring, my heart races a bit. A nearly completely light obliterating black, the only glimmer of color is the faintest brown, trying to escape around the edges. The aromas coming forth are an opus of complexity, the likes of which are rarely attained. Oak, vanilla, roasted malts, smoke, Valhrona Chocolate, the sugar crust of a creme brulee, Black Mission Figs, date syrup, plums all make their presence known. Waves of olfactory pleasure engulf my psyche, pulling in more inward into a contemplative state. I continue to inhale, wondering how this is possible. The flavor is other worldly. The roasted flavor is the first to makes its presence known. As I continue, a light brown caramel teases the senses, sublimely yielding to a playful balance of oak, vanilla and Italian meringue, though ever so slightly. The warming alcohol finishes what in essence is the brewer’s tour de force. Perhaps it is not simply brewing, but is rather alchemy, transforming simple ingredients into a master piece.

Sampled at DLD 2009 thanks to the great scotsmen cgarvieuk and daknole for the hook up.pour was black and thinner than most american Imperials Stouts but the flavor was amazing yet light and sweet of caramel malts,chocolate,vanilla, coffee, brewers licorice and honey,aromas from chocolates,coffee sweet vanilla truely outstanding smooth finish hides alcohol very well but is it the greatset stout in the world? don’t know that but it does belong up there

2006. Very good IS. Poured a thick black with a great looking creamy brown head. Aroma of chocolate, malt, oak, and some fruit. Flavor was much of the same with somewhat of an alcohol burn finish. Not bad by any means. Oak and fruit make it somewhat sweet. Great complexity.

2007 Bottle at Glenfiddich Warehouse, Stockholm. Served way to cold. Black with a smal brown head. Surprisingly high carbonation. Bitter chocolate, soy, tobaco and vanilla. Complex and great!

Courtesy of Hopscotch. Pours a dark brown with a thin tan head. Aroma is mostly burnt coffee. Taste of vinous cocoa flavor. Little nutty taste. Has a sweet taste of figs and oak. Finishes with a slight cream feeling on the tongue.

Bottle of the 2005 version at Akkurat in October 2007. The head is brown, dissipates fast but laces a bit. Caramel, alcohol and very dark, bready malts on the aroma. Smoky caramel and dark, dark smooth malts in the flavour. Incredibly smooth and full it reminds me of an LBV port but with less fruitiness, of course. As I got further into it I noticed more oak and black(?) bread. It’s a beer to be enjoyed slowly for sure. I split the (small) bottle with my heterosexual life partner who was probably even more impressed then I with this remarkably crafted beer. I’m hard pressed to remember a more complex beer than this one. There are endless layer and each sip is a journey. It’s not my favourite of the style (I’m not sure what beer is anyway) but it displays such craft and shows what can be done with "mere" malts and hops.