Nils Oscar Imperial Stout

Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Foreign Stout
Nyköping, Sweden

bottle, pours black with a medium tan head. Aroma is nice with notes of carmel, milk, and roasted malt. Solid chocolate and black malt body, thin notes of coffeeand spice. Nice mellow roasty finish.

Compact tan head over a brown-black beer. Firm coffee aroma with elements of bananas, dark chocolate and a scruffy, woolly presence. Moderately sweet with an overall impression of dryness via roasted bitterness and coffeelike acidity. Slightly savory as well. Taste and aroma combine to make the flavor overwhelmingly of coffee. Medium-full bodied with a slick texture and soft carbonation. Quite unidirectional, though mostly pleasant in what it does. A moderate amount of fusel alcohols arrive as the beer warms. Simple, average. 33 cl bottle, bottled in September 2009.

33cl bottle, Alko. Pours black in color, thin brown head. Roasted malt aroma. Sweet flavor, liquirice and chocolate and coffee. Roasted bitter aftertaste. Delicious.

330 ml bottle. Pitch black, with a thin light brown head. Roasted malty aroma with dark chocolate, coffee and liquorice. The flavour is roasted, a little sweet at first, with chocolate, some dark fruits and spices. The finish is somewhat drier, roasted and bitter. Very tasty.

Bottle. Dark brown colour with a medium-sized tan head. The aroma of roasted malt with notes of liquorice and coffee. Sweetish and roasted with some bitterness and coffee. Medium-bodied, roasted and bitter aftertaste.

Black beer with a minimal beige head. The aroma has lots of dark malts, salty licorice and a hint of tar. Long lasting aftertast has sweetish dark chocolate, some roasted coffee and hops. Sweetish-chocolatey flavor dries up towards the finish ending a bit chalky and bitterish. Medium to full bodied palate, slick and a bit oily mouthfeel. Pretty tasty beer it is but not the most interesting.

330ml bottle, unknown vintage but is likely several months old. Aroma of dark chocolate, molasses, roasty malts, licorice, espresso, cream and faint prune. Opaque ebony in color, head is a faint ring of light tan. Flavor profile is unusual for the style but extremely well-balanced and refined, with aspects of dark, semi-sweet chocolate, latte and toffee, anise and other faint spices, showing hints of roasty bitterness towards the finish. Largely dry, smooth mouthfeel, body is medium-full. Not nearly as powerful or even as complex as some Imperials, but certainly nice in its own right. More of a British or historical take on the style, seemingly.

Black beer with weak blond head. Aroma is strongly roasted, chalky and some coffee. Flavour is quite intensive, roasted, some liquirice and dry in the end. Nicely slippery to drink. Roasted, not-interested beer, there are better beers for this category.