Nørrebro La Granja Stout

Brewed by Nørrebro Bryghus
Style: Sweet Stout
København, Denmark

600ml Bottle. Poured deep brown, almost black in color with a small tan head. Aroma of mocha, roasted coffee, and fairly sweet. Tastes of roasted coffee, mocha and vanilla with a slightly bitter and dry finish. Pretty straight forward.

Bottle. Pours inky black with a thin tan colored head. Aroma is sweet chocolate, roast, coffee. Flavor is super sweet chocolate, light coffee, caramel. Palate is medium to full bodied, mild carbonation, finished way too sweet. I like sweet stout but this was waaayy over the top sweet.

Bottle, thanks to WeeHeavySD for sharing. Pours a dark dark brown. Strong coffee aroma of espresso beans and malt. Bitter and smooth coffee-malt taste. Great lingering coffee bean flavors. Really tasty sweet stout.

Bottle from Keg Liqour. Poured dark brown color with medium brown creamy head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Medium to heavy roasted coffee and chocolate aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth texture. Medium to heavy roasted flavor with a medium bittersweet finish of moderate duration. My expectations where met.

Sweet, delicious aroma of roasted malts, coffee and milk chocolate. Smooth, roasted and burnt malty flavor with coffee, milk chocolate, caramel and nice hoppy finish.

600 ml bottle. Pours a blackish-brown color with a thick tan head. Sweet aroma with coffee and dark malts. Sweet taste of chocolate and coffee with a nice hoppy background. Well-balanced aftertaste, pretty heavy carbonation and medium body. Pretty good and quite distinctive.

(600 ml bottle from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/massachusetts/w target=blank>Julio’s Liquors) Pours very dark brown with rubyish brown highlights. Three fingers of lumpyish tan head. Head is quite active for a stout - large bubbles form in it as it rather quickly recedes - looks like molten lava. Head is pretty much gone rather quickly. Unexpectedly very mild aroma of milk chocolate and a little bit of coffee with cream. Mouthfeel is also surprisingly thin and a bit fizzy but fairly smooth. No lacing. Flavor is rather rich coffee with cream, a bit of chocolate and a subtle roasty dark rum/molasses/honey quality reminiscent of their excellent porter. This latter quality is more evident deeper in the bottle and as it warms. Virtually no bitterness. Interesting stuff - very different from an American stout.

Bottle of La Granja Espresso Stout. . .I assume this is the right place to rate this. Pours slick, near black, and makes a small tan head that only lasts for 10 seconds or so. The aroma is nice with things I normally associate with imperial stouts: licorice, molasses, dark fruit. Now, where is the coffee? The coffee suggestions are meager and not really genuine. Palate is medium heavy. The majority of the flavor profile on this one is quite nice: more licorice, some dark fruit, hints of rum, light cream. There is something in the finish that is off putting. I’ve found this in some other Danish or Norwegian stouts, not quite sure how to describe it. There is also a slight tart thing going on. Not bad, but it seems rough around the edges. And where is the coffee?? It says "espresso stout" in giant letters on the label, definitely doesn’t live up to that.