Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon Second Edition

500mLShared with SpencerDB

Tried this exactly when the bottle recommends: Fall 2009 after being brewed Nov 4 2007. Pours almost pitch black, more like a crazy dark brown, with a scary, menacing, super dark brown head that is very thin but has okay retention and leaves spotty lacing. Aroma is massive spiced rum, scotch, semisweet chocolate. Taste is HUGE warming alcohol at 16%. This is like drinking chocolate, watered down spiced rum. Though it is high in alcohol, this beer is not a thick, huge impy- it is more like straight whiskey with chocolate added. But the thing about this beer is that the palate is also whiskey. It sits in the mouth like liquor: lots of warming, spice, and it sort of stings the tongue and leaves a powerful tingling. I’m disappointed, but this makes me yearning to try DH1, which may have to wait to be my 800th rating.

500mL Shared with tarheels86. Thanks man!

Interesting. Poured into snifter. Produced a thin caramel colored head that was fleeting, but not surprisingly since it had been aged 2 years. The aroma is quite simply... whiskey. It is definitely more complex, but the lasting impression is whiskey. Roasted malts, slightly chocolate, and pungent. I was excited when pouring because the aroma was warming (if smell can do that) and the taste of the beer definitely matched. The disappointment with this beer is that the taste left on your palate is just whiskey/bourbon. If you take a break from drinking for a minute or two, the only after-taste you have is whiskey. The beer’s taste is somewhat dominated by the alcohol, but it is easy to sip and enjoy. Full bodied, rich, and girthy. I greatly enjoyed the beer. I don’t think I’ve ever had a beer that was this complex. Cheers to Nøgne Ø for this beer. Not my highest rated beer, but definitely the most interesting

Shared with savvy1982... Thanks Kyle! Pours black with a small head. Aroma is roasty with red fruits and alcohol showing through. The palate is very complex and tasty, similar to the nose... But a boozy mess. Nice mouth feel, but this beer needed to age a lot longer.

@ a tasting, pours black opaque with a dark chocolate head, aroma is rather citric with some berries, chocolate, almonds and vinous vinegar-like perfum, woody flavor with some, chocolate, vanilla, high pungency, brandy, coffee, and herby finish with notes of lemon grass, complex yet too boozy. Difficult to sip but an excellent tricky brew.

At a tasting, many thanks Zvikar, almost no head, black and completly opaque, aroma of light roasted coffee, woodiness, roots, mushrooms and a hint of dark fruit, flavours of roasted malt, earthiness and dried fruits. big bodied, finish is a touch dry. Good.

Bottle sample at a tasting. Bottle sample at a tasting. Thanks Zvika! 17.5% ABV. Opaque black-colored beer with a small, quickly-diminishing, brown head. Aroma of coffee and lots of alcohol. Strong alcoholic flavor with dark fruits, coffee, chocolate and roastiness. Too much alcohol.

Tested @ NøgneØ stand @ Ølmessen, Nærbø. Black, cloudy body with creamy light brown head. Good lacing. The liquid sticks lie thin engineoil to the glass! Aroma is very rich with alcohol, heavy dark caramel, roasted barley, raisin, mild coffe beans. Intense! Rich sweet flavor, light bitterness, hints of salt, with long and heavy alcoholic finish. Full bodied. Syrupy/oily. Soft carbonation. Special and interesting.

Bottle ( 500ml ). Shared with blankboy, garthicus, gregclow, jerc and mabel. Oily-looking opaque brown-black with an average sized frothy brown head (4-). Nutty, boozy, charred aroma, with ketones and a hint sour cherry - pretty nice, actually. The taste is, let’s be honest, pretty hot (16%!) but I liked it - dry deep roast coffee, plus grounds, some molasses, pretty herbal - strong, bold and burnt. Slick and oily on the tongue, quite dry from the alcohol, somewhat still - warming and way nicer than I expected: but not quite up to the standard of the First Edition.