 Ofortuna (322), Grafton, Wisconsin, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Mar 31, 2009
08 version. Pours a bit lighter than I was expecting, but with a beautifully thick head. Displays a lighter floral aroma with a bit of citrus. Not nearly as intense as I was expecting from what folks had said about the previous years vintage. Huge creamy character that really stood out. Very much the calling card of this vintage. A dryer overall beer and quite easy drinking compared to other beers in its class that leave a much higher finishing gravity. However, too sharp of a contrast between the sweet/roasted malt backbone and the citrus/orange hop profile. Overall, it left me a bit confused. It seemed like it was trying to be both a sweeter/creamier imperial stout and one of the more highly hopped examples of the genre at the same time. While I really loved the first side of this along with how nicely attenuated the gravity was, and is why my score is so high, I really didn’t care for the choice of hops. They just seemed to detract a bit from the overall experience. I know there was a change in the recipe, particularily in the type of hops used, but I think they would’ve been better off doing what made this beer so exceptional initially.
fata2683 (901), Panama City, Florida, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 14/20 |
Dec 19, 2009 #900 2008 bottle, pours thick black with a tall dark tan head. Strong mollassis and coffee with roasted malt nose. Sweet burnt sugar and maple syrup flavors with faint coffee notes. Amazing how sweet this is, it’s almost too much sweetness for me.
Beer2000 (1828), Kristiansand, Norway
| 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 18/20 |
Dec 15, 2009 750 ml bottle sampled@RBNAG 2009, Vatlandsvåg. Black body with a thin brown head. Strong aroma of roasted malt, molasses, soy and hops. Flavor is sweet, dark malt, roasted coffee, chocolate, molasses, honey, alcohol and bitterhops. Very complex, heavy and pleasant, but in moderate volume.
JoeTheYounger (288), California, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 14, 2009 09 bottle at Hophead22 tasting. Aroma was soy sauce, chocolate, alcohol and prunes. Poured a dark black color with tan head. Taste was very toasty with some cherries, toffee, and alcohol. Pallet was low to medium. Overall very good.
2008 vintage was much sweeter aroma and taste of wort. Seemed like an entire different recipe.
2007 vintage was more roasty and toasty than all.
punkrkr27 (639), Berkley, Michigan, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 10, 2009 2008 bottle. Lots of rich sweet yet bitter black strap molasses character with a shot of espresso. There’s some milk chcoclate that comes out in the middle and it finishes with a long bitter black coffee finish. There was a hint of soy I didn’t care much for though. The body is sticky and full with moderate carbonation.
fredandboboflo (1417), East Setauket, New York, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 6, 2009 Bottle, 2009, thanks to tytoanderso. Aroma of pine, resin, chocolate, caramel, sweets. Flavor very chocolatey, not too roasty, with lots of resin to battle with a chewy sweetness. Decadent, dessert-like, despite the also-strong hop character. The resinous quality in fact seems to blend rather than battle with all the sweet character. A unique impy, and quite tasty.
OleR (2095), Oslo, Norway
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 4, 2009 Bottle@RBNAG 2009, Vatlandsvåg. A black beer with a creamy, ruddy-brown foam on top. Rounded and complex aroma of roasted dark malts, cocoa, milk-chocolate, dark dried fruits and vanilla. Much of the same flavorwise; taste is rich malty and complex, and has a refined, honey-ish sweetness. Well balanced bitterness. Fat-bodied and smooth in the mouth. Malts and hops lingers in a lasting finish. Harmonious and powerfull. Very nice.
phaleslu (547), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
| 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 1, 2009 22 oz. bottle shared by shawnm213, 2009 edition. I’ve wanted to try one of these for a long time, thanks Shawn! Pours very dark brown with a one finger brown head. Aroma of molasses, tobacco, hops, smoked wood, and we recognized bacon as the glass got low. A lot going on in the nose- really cool to smell. Flavor of molasses, roasted malt, hops, cola, dark chocolate, and alcohol. Sweeter than expected, and Shawn and I agreed we would rather have had it roastier than sweeter. The sweetness leaned more toward the molasses and chocolate rather than any fruits, which seemed to be muted out to me. Rich and medium-full bodied, with a syrupy mouthfeel. Excellent beer.
BeerGestapo (740), Windsor, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 3/5 | 8/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 30, 2009 Brewed in the USA !!! Courtesy of FooFaa, thanks Dan. ( 2009 bottle)Pours a very dark brown almost black in color with a thin beige head. Aroma of toffee, dark malts, chocolate, citrus and earth. Taste of molasses, bitter chocolate, citrus, hops and prunes. Mouthfeel is thin in body and there is a lingering hoppy bitterness at the finish. Alittle bit dissapointed overall in this R.I.S. Not robust enough for me, and thin on the palate. Yet still very enjoyable to drink !!!
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