Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter

Brewed by Närke Kulturbryggeri
Style: Imperial Stout
Örebro, Sweden

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!

2006 Bottle @ Merritt Island tasting, courtesy of hopscotch and the Orlando crew, kisses for saving a schnitt for latecomers!!! Gorgeous black silken body with luscious tan lacing, giving a satiny palate. Robust coffee aromas and flavors with lots of bourbon swirling around. A smooth, tasty, well-crafted and refined brew well-deserving of its accolades. An honor to drink.

Bought at the bar Bishops Arms in Malmö, Sweden for the price of 120 skr - thats very fair...we were three and had one each...no sharing. This one were a 2007 edition and was poured in a tulip-wine glass. Like the rugby team in NZ this could go for all black. The head was likewise very brown - very nice looking. The aroma was dominated of chocolate with sidenotes of tobacco together with some oak. The taste is warm, round and sweet. Its not very heavy compared to other stouts like this. Lots of spice, chocolate and the wooden notes. Ver nice and very balanced but not as complex as i thought it would be. Nice surprise to find this one on a evening dominated of pretty shitty pale ales.

Bottle. Just tried a sample of this at Bishops Arms. Aroma was oaky with plenty of chocolate. Taste was a bit oakey and smokey with some smooth chocolate and honey flavors.

Re-rate bottled at Akkurat and at SMÖF. The flavours are now more mature and balanced. The silkyness of teh regular Stormaktsporter now combines well with all the attractive barrel induced flavours. It has grown one step further on bottles.
[Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm] Intransparently black, small pale brown head. Rich aroma of licorice and wood. Sweet with full body and concentrated flavour of coffee, tar, oak and whiskey. Salty finish with vanilla and chocolate as well as a fair amount of bitterness. The barrel character does not overpower the other flavours, making it more balanced than many other barrel aged beers.

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.

Tasted at the February Northern California Beer Tasting. This Imperial Stout pours an eclipse black color from the bottle. Small to medium sized foamy tan head. The aroma is chocolate and toffee, dark fruit, chocolate, oak and licorice. A very full bodied Imperial Stout. The malts are chocolate and toffee, dark fruit, licorice, oak and some bourbon. The hops are earthy. An incredibly full mouthfeel, a real tongue coater. Lots of chocolate and coffee flavors as wellas some dark fruit and vanilla. Nice balance. Good beer. Mouthfeel is very full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Dark black with tan thin head. Aroma of chocolate and oak. Damn this is good, and I say that expecting to be let down as though this beer was all hype. Has a bit of a strange flavour for an imperial stout but it’s really fantastic. Full creamy and chewy body with a nice light feeling with the carbonation despite the coating ability of this thicker stout. Missing is the sometimes annoying charred bitter and astringent malt character, surprising given the coffee flavour towards the end. Finishes out with chocolate and a bit of soy. Really well done and a very good stout.