Nils Oscar Imperial Stout

Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Foreign Stout
Nyköping, Sweden

The aroma is roasted with malt, cream, coffee, and chocolate. The appearance is dark brown with an average head. The flavor is like the aroma but burnt. The palate is smooth. Overall it’s good.

33cl. Opaque with a creamy one-finger head that lasts. Coffee, milk chocolate and light charred wood in the nose. Complex flavors of milk chocolate, raisin, fig, metallic molasses, prickly-sweet herbs, coffee, dried hickory, sour cream, char, caramel and smoke. Heavy body is mostly smooth, but a bit frothy with carbonation at times, tingly and dry on the long roasty finish. Best FS (by far) I have sampled to date.

Bottle. Dark rich chocolate aroma with some nuts there also. Black body with tan head. Flavor reminded me of an oatmeal stout. Flavor had a sweetness to it that was typical of a Foreign stout. Smooth and easy on the palate, good beer.

This black ale poured with a creamy tan head and a strong roasted malt aroma. There is a chewy chocolate and coffee flavor that is intense, yet not overwhelming. This is a very smooth drink with nothing but good flavors.

Pours very dark brown, nearly black, with a 1 cm tall tan head. Roasted coffee, vanilla, brown sugar, barley, cocoa, and cream. The nose is deceptive as the taste is more bitter than advertised. A solid amount of chocolate and coffee, but the resiny hops come out. Just enough to let you know they are there. Good caramel, vanilla, walnut, and oats in there as well. Very good representative of the style.

Courtesy of Gillard. Pours dark brown with thin mocha head. The aroma is roasty with mildly burnt malts that nearly manage to cover up some faint molasses. It is fairly rich in aroma but on the mild side in strength. The taste is rich and roasty followed by mild burnt malts and sweet molasses. There’s also a thin layer of caramel and nuttiness in there too. A bit thin for the style especially side by side tonight with Dark Lord, Darkness, Boris The Crusher and Witch Doctor.

Bottle, 2003 vintage. A dark, dark brown beer with a ruby tint. Small, dense, beige head. The aroma has a pleasant touch of oxidation, coffee and chocolate. Quite lovely. Mocha, chocolate, dark coffee, some meaty notes and a touch of oxidation in the mouth. Dry and full-bodied. A delicious result from 5 years of cellaring. Rating: 7-4-8-4-15-3.8. (081229)

Bottle. It pours a lovely black body topped by a dense beige to tan head. Nice lacings too. The beer is more flavorful than I remember, and the aroma likewise. A bit thin though. There’s a lot of darkness in the aroma, with quite evident licorice, as well as roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Good dash of sweetness too. It feels full-bodied at first sip, but it isn’t so full. Quite stickysweet though, and not so dry, even though there’s mocha, coffee and roasted malts. Some faint chocolate too. I would like more hoppy bitterness and some fruityness in the beer, as it is quite low on that. The alcohol can be detected, and gives a little warmth, but it sure isn’t forcing itselves through. It’s a surprisingly easy drinkable beer, but considering it’s 7% ABV, not a session beer. The sweetness of it also suggests it’s not a session beer, and it’s still a little weak if you’re looking for a real treat by the fireplace in the winter, or as a nightcap on a hot summer evening. Guess that leaves it somewhere in the middle, not that I know what that would be. Maybe the last beer before leaving the pub? (080605)

Bottle of Swedish beer n celebration of Red Wings winnin StanleyCup! Darl brown body with cream, roasted malt and chocolate aromas. Flavor is isfairly creamy with chocolate and roasted malt undrtones and a little bit of a stale coffee aftertaste. My complaint is that it is a bit thin and weakly bodied before coffee aftertase sets in.. Stil, very good. Go Wings!!!!