Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon Second Edition

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

Thanks to Dan for sharing this one! Viscous inky black pour. Fluffy chestnut colored head and nice lace. Heavy roast and a really sweet aroma. Choclate, roast, coffee, and burnt malts. This like V1 is still a little too cloying for me.

One of my second highest ratings to date. This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a large sized head of foamy fine to medium sized dark brown colored bubbles that were and left behind a opaque dark black colored body and a good lacing. The aroma was brown malt dark malt and mild vinous. The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start and strongly tingly at the finish with a biting dark malt aftertaste. The strong flavor contained notes of vinous dark malt and coffee. A deliciously wonderful best in class brew.

Bottle. Heavy malt smells of toasted, dark chocolate, strong coffee and molasses, moderate herbs and resin for the hops, earth for the yeast, with tar, alcohol and dark dried fruit in the background. Head is small, thin, light brown with no lacing but good legs, and is fully diminishing. Color is the deepest of the darkest brown. Flavor starts heavily sweet and lightly acidic, then the extra long finish is lightly sweet and moderately bitter. Palate is full, syrupy with soft carbonation and finishes heavily alcoholic and sticky. With out a doubt, the most powerful Imperial Stout I’ve had. Awesome.

Chris sums it up well. Very smart and serious in every way, and also very young. Chocolate and golden syrup on the nose; sweet and powerful. Palate is tighter with bitter chocolate. Quiet firm. Alcohol very well handled given the 16%. Years left here.

Pretty pleased to have tried this & certainly don’t regret having it at such a young age. Pours black with not much of a head. Nose has a heap of coffee, dark liquered fruits & roasted malt with the high abv attributing a slight spirity character, also a touch of smoke. Palate is pretty thick and mouthcoating as you would expect from the 16%abv. Coffee is integrated with the dark malt really well & while dominating it certainly doesnt stick out of place. Finishes quite prickly and slightly numbing on the tip of the tongue, aside from that abv is handled really well. Suprised this isnt a whole lot sweeter, which is definately a pleasant surprise showing great balance. Highly recommend, despite hefty price.

Bottle #260. Dark brown, almost black colour with a dark brown head. The aroma of coffee, roasted malt and liquorice. Roasted malt flavour with a lot of coffee and liquorice, notes of chocolate, sweetness and some bitterness. Less alcohol in the taste than I expected. Full-bodied, aftertaste is long, roasted, bitter and warming. Very good, but maybe it still needs some time to reach the full potential.

Bottle@Home. Loads of fruits, chocolate, some coffee, very complex aroma. Pitch black, brown head, good lace. Very fruity, loads of coffee, sweet, very bitter, licorice. Full and warming. Very flavourful, very complex, hard to drink of course but wonderful, exploding, yet not over the edge. This is probably how World Wide Stout should have tasted like.

[2466-20090827] 1pt0.9floz bottle. Used roasted coffee grounds, rich malty date syrup and sweet molasses aroma. Dark dark brown body with a quick foamy dark brown head. Initial roast coffee flavour finishes long and strong as burnt smoked wood, the alcohol is not initially present but finishes with a bit of a Bam! Full, heavy body. Soooo rich, so boozy, has a ridiculously long finish -- woah, it’s 17%?! Can tell it’s boozy but that’s surprisingly high.
Overheard: "It tastes like farm."
(c/o HogTownHarry, w/ him, blankboy, garthicus, GregClow, jerc)