Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon Second Edition

Formerly brewed at Nøgne Ø
Style: Imperial Stout
Grimstad, Norway

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.

bottle at Ft Wayne tasting - Pours black with a very minimal tan head. It smells of rich, darkly roasted malt and alcohol. Note that the ABV is actually 17.5% as you can see on the label pictured here. As expected given that ABV, it tastes hot. That’s not to say it’s bad. The big roast malt with chocolate accents is very tasty. It’s full bodied and enjoyable, though perhaps would be even better with the alcohol toned down a couple percentage points.

Bottle courtest of one evil mother fucker...motortoddhead...thanks man!!! - Pours almost black with a small ring of a tan head...aroma is fruity and dark, smoke and heat, roasted malt and come bitter cocoa...flavour is an amalgam of all of the smells, vanilla, licorice, chocolate liqueur and fire, finish is a lingering plummy fruit...definitely one to share...