Viking Brewing Big Swede

Pours dark brownish black with thick lacy head. Heavy chocolate and brown sugar aroma... very sweet flavor but a bit light bodied for a stout.

Bottle from beer hating Ryan. Thanks. Smelling this beer was ridiculous, like a huge chocolate bar. Really good smelling beer, sweet and fruity, roasted, no alcohol, just very smooth. Taste is thick and rich, like drinking motor oil. Very chocolatey but not so much full of coffee. A sweet imperial stout, but a very thick one too. Good beer, I would drink alot of this if I lived up there. Probably one of the better stouts Ryan has sent me.

Bottle, thanks to Ughsmash. Pours translucent blackish brown with a thick, dense, lacy tan head. Aroma of brown sugar, chocolate, prunes, licorice coffee, roasted malt. Sweet taste that follows the nose. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Dry espresso finish. This one has more of a Belgian Stout quality, rather than being a RIS. If you’re a sweet-tooth stout drinker, I got yer stout right here.

The color is as black as they come, completely void of transparency. A dense, creamy, tan colored head settles to a thin but well retained layer of foam. Slow moving, soapy spots gradually dry on the glass while in transit back to the body. The aroma is big and roasty, but with ample smoothing cream and sweet chocolate and fruity notes. Rich, decadent chocolate and scorched caramel is steeped with figs, dates, and hints of hazelnut. Flavors are equally big, roasty, savory, bittersweet chocolate notes are further sweetened with heavily creamed coffee and dark, malty fruits. A touch of earthy spice lends some bitterness and balance. The body is thick, with balanced carbonation, but the sugary sweetness gets to be cloying. This reminds me of an imperial sweet stout, if such a thing exists. Nice brew, but ultimately just a little too saccharine for my taste.

Pours out black with a large foamy, lively brownish head. Aroma is strange, some spice and some chocolate, maybe dark fruit notes. Taste is rather strange also, some baker’s chocolate, dark fruits and a bit harsh on the alcoholic finish.