Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter

Brewed by Närke Kulturbryggeri
Style: Imperial Stout
Örebro, Sweden

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.

Ive tried this beer twice now and it has been amazing both times. Extremely smooth yet complex taste. It kinda hugs your mouth and wants to stay there forever. The best beer I have every tried and I hope I get to taste it again.

Thanks to WeeHeavySD I finally got to try this before that bullshit Belgian Festival. We should have just gotten more beer and stayed at the hotel. Anyway, this lives up to the hype. Dark and surprisingly sweet. No alcohol detected. Just sweet, syrupy stoutness that left a nice, silken, candy coating on the palate. It must be a real pain in the ass to make this stuff because it’s pretty complex and you practically need to be fellating the brewer to get your hands on some. But, ya know, dog bless the person ready to go through the trouble. I rather enjoyed this ale. You know how it is... sometimes you hear the hype and it’s usually mostly based upon how difficult the stuff is to get. Then you try and and it’s pretty good, but not worth the hassle or the hype. This actually fits into the category of worth the hassle and the hype. Nice.

Bottle thanks to Omhper, I’m very grateful to you man! Appearance: dark color. Beautiful brown head, medium size, lasting and dense. Aroma: intensive chocolate and a sweet roast malty. After, a lot of aromatic reminiscences like pure cacao, coffee-grains, truffles, oak wood, ripe fruits, vanilla and milk cream. Flavor: start with a robust and multidimensional chocolate taste, is like to chew a chocolate-marzipan cake or a mousse of chocolate. Roasted malty some astringent. Intensives and complex reminiscences like liquory truffles, wood, toasted hazelnuts, candy blackberries, figs, dark raisins, "sweet of milk", maybe cinnamon, chocolaty tobacco, cream and liquor hints similar to Porto wine, woody whisky and coffee liquor. In the end I can feel a light dryness from the hops. Hidden alcohol degree. Palate: coating the tongue and all the mouth, full body, creamy and oily texture, fleshy. Low carbonation. Remark: amazing beer in all dimensions, very complex, good barrel background, intensive beer but balanced at the same time. A lovely shock for my palate.

2006 Version: Black with a tan head, spotty lacing; head recedes to a ring around the glass. Chocolate, roasty coffee, graham cracker, and some ash. Taste is roasty, maple, molasses, vanilla, and seemed to have a fair amount of earthy hops too. Medium carbonation and medium body. Pretty good beer, but not really the amazing beer it’s made out to be. Thanks to pepsican for sharing. I’d be interested in trying this again, but not for the price this commands in trades.

Dark brown, small head. Malty and Coconut aroma. Flavors of rich, roasty malts, caramel, brown sugar, vanilla, bitter chocolate, slight alcohol and dried fruit. Smooth and rich.

Bottle, 25 cl at GFW68 Sthlm. Vintage 2006, one year old at sampling. Initial impressions are average for an imperial stout, served way too cold and I wait for the beer to warm up. As it warms, intense aromas of chocolate and booze, some red fruit. But mainly hot alcohol. Taste and palate is sweet, chocolate, no roastiness, very little, if any hops. Some vanilla and wood I imagine. Perhaps this was still a bit young, but with a beer this rare, who can afford to wait.. (seeing how it’s only available in pubs in Sweden). So.. best beer in the world? No way. Really good -yes! This beer however, is very malt dominated, there’s not much else going on here.. Maybe I’m blasphemeing.. but I think anyone can make this beer. Severly hyped because it’s so rare. I certainly wont fork out the 24 euro to try this again. Still.. must compliment HG on a damn fine beer!

Bottle, 2006. Black colour with a small brown head. Oak, whisky and coffee aroma. The flavour is whisky, roasted malt, chocolate, coffee and some tar. Full-bodied and smooth mouthfeel with a nice warming finish. Fantastic beer!