Närke Kaggen Stormaktsporter

Brewed by Närke Kulturbryggeri
Style: Imperial Stout
Örebro, Sweden

2006 Edition.

Thank you Bonus Beer Bob for the chance to try this incredibly rare beer. While I’ve had it once before, this was the only time I’ve had more than a couple of sips, and enough to properly wrap my head around the beer. Thanks dude.

Pours a thick, viscous, oily black. Tan, creamy head. Beautiful. Chocolate, honey, creamy espresso in the smell. Notes of brown sugar and vanilla. Complex. Wonderful. Inviting. Huge, rich, creamy chocolate, brown sugar, tobacco, dark fruits, oak all slowly unveil themselves in the taste. Caramel and vanilla notes. Honey carries through from the smell as well and provides a very nice, unique note in this beer. Super rich, super creamy mouthfeel with virtually no alcohol heat. Excellent. Extremely drinkable.

Every once in a while, a beer lives up to the hype. This is one of those. Incredibly complex, with layers of complexity that are slowly peeled back, sip after sip. All this, and no noticeable flaws to dampen the enjoyment. Awesome beer. Keg for my home, please? Ha, I wish. So, in summary, this beer sucks. Don’t seek it out. Avoid at all costs. /sarcasm.

2006 bottle version. Opaque black, almost like engine oil with a small fading brown head. I had my doubts about this one, thaught it was overrated but after tasting it I must agree with the most of the raters here. The aroma and flavor develop during the tasting and you can almost say you’re tasting a different beer in the end than in the beginning. Sweet aroma of raisins, prunes etc. A deep flavor of caramel malts and even some rancid fruit taste but in a good way. Also chocolate and honey come out in the flavor. Very malty finish and palate, even some yeasts coming thru. Simply a great beer that you would like to drink more often!

Colour: dark brown with a light brown head. Overwhelmingly complex and very distinct aroma of chocolate, sweet tart, campfire roasted marshmellows. Flavours of chocolate, coffee, wood, sweet tart, some dried fruits, cognac and port. Alcohol is well hidden. Exceptional. Rerate: bottled, thx to caesar. Incredible long, smooth and balanced aftertaste of dark chocolate and dried fruits. Very happy to be able to sample this one again.

2006 Bottle at Akkurat, Stockholm. Black color with a brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, strong wine, licorice, smoke/tar, wood and alcohol. The taste is roasted and sweet with lots of chocolate, also notes of coffee, honey, smoke, licorice , wood and some alcohol. Full-bodied. Extremely smooth and balanced. 081022. Sample from Bottle. Bishops Arms, Järntorget, Porterfestivalen. Still very good. I noticed more bourbon character this time. 090207. 2007 Bottle. Tre Små Rum. Gothenburg. Maybe the worlds best beer.

I’ve tasted a vintage 2007, thank you rickgordon!. Do not drink it too cold! If you do that the beer would not to open... The beer has a dark sirupy-oily body with a small lacing but creamy and delicious brown head. Absolutly rich, liqueric aroma of coffee, dark chocolate and plum-dried fruits, tons of roasted malt, candy sugar. The flavor is something unbelievable. Hard attack of an oily textured, rich bodied beer with roasted grains, coffe and cocoa, dark chocolate, vanilla and candy sugar, character of the oak barrels. Long finish and roasted aftertaste. Thanks again, rick!

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.

250ml 2006 bottle so generously shared by after4ever. Pours a thick, dark as night black with a dense deep tan head; looks just fantastic in the glass. Nose is just what you would want in a perfect Impy Stout; roasty malt, vanilla, chocolate, plum, oak and bourbon...wow! I could pretty much smell this all night. The taste is just as amazing with all the flavors coming together with such balance and grace. This is the best beer I have ever had and it fully lives up to the hype. Thanks Tom for sharing such a treat!

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.