Nøgne Ø # 100 (Batch 100)

Brewed by Nøgne Ø
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Grimstad, Norway

(Bottle 50 cl) Purchased and sampled 2 years after brew date 4 more years to go!! Pours a beautiful red with a light brown dense head with good duration. Hoppy and sweet malty aroma. Flavour is initially malty sweet then dominated by hop bitterness with some licorice. At this stage of life definitly more barley wine than IPA. Great

Pours dark brown with nice off white head. Nose is super expressive. Caramel & toffee from the malt as well as apricot and citrus from the hops, big hop profile noticable. Palate translates very well. Some initial malt sweetness before spiced apricot, citrus and hops interweave to drive a long bitter finish. Certainly a barley wine as apposed to 2ipa, except with a touch of darker choc. Awesome example of a new world barley wine.

Bottle. Pours a brown colour with a foamy medium tan head. Aroma is dry, with notes of malt, honey, hops and nuts. Flavour is malt, chocolate, hops and liquorice with a bitter hoppy aftertaste. It opens up as the temperature rises. Nice!

SpringsLicker’s Fish Fry. Sample from a bottle shared by me thanks to nearbeer. Brown body with an off white/tan head. Aroma of raisins, sweet malts, floral hops. Taste is caramel, raisins, and a grassy finish.

Decent head creamy brown colour carbonation good colour very dark some tinges of dark brown up to the light aroma fruity caramel malty creamy note of vanilla flavour bloomin lovely as they say here resin like hoppy taste citrus citric peel a creaminess and smoothness forget the alcohol content caramel big fizz on the tongue apricot in there for sweetness finish big flavour and fizz lasting tops

Poured a decent light tan head for high alcohol beer and it mainly hung around. Body was a dark reddy brown and darker than what I was expecting. Bold aroma with quite a bit going on in there, herbal, pepper, vanilla,fennel. Smooth full taste, good bitterness and balance.

16.9 oz bottle. While the bottle says Barley Wine-style Ale, the site says I-IPA, so I am intrigued. With the editors note attached, I trudge forward. Pours a dark red/brown color with a finger high off white head the disappears somewhat quickly. Smells very strongly of many different hops, as well as a fair bit of malt, and oddly enough, chocolate (took three smells to discern it). Tastes of light hops, and a chocolate (not like a bar, more like a chocolate truffle). Very bizarre taste, but it is quite smooth, though only medium-bodied. An interesting beer, but probably not worth the price. As far as the barley wine vs. I-IPA debate, I would say it is an excellent version of both, though I would not suggest attempting a recreation.

Bottle. Amber colered with a dense off white head. Aroma is rich and sweet with fruity hops, dried fruit, sweet malt, caramel and resin. The flavor is hoppy, sweet, fruity, floral, malty and bitter.