7.2

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

How: Bottle.
Where: Systembolaget.
Appearance: Dark brown colour with a beige head-
Aroma: Roasted malt, chocolate, alcohol, sugary.
Body: Medium to full body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Roasted malt, chocolate, alcohol, some fruit.

8.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Imperial stout brewed at Amager in Denmark with the assistance of the guys from Voodoo in Pennsylvania - this can hardly go wrong... Bottle from BeerFreakChick (thanks Dinka for the delivery), with a label that - as usual with Amager - tries to distract the beer drinker with an elaborate (and, frankly, irrelevant) story on Edgar Allan Poe. Anyway: thick and mousy, deep mocha-beige, dense, membrane-lacing, only slowly dissolving head on a black beer with hazy mahogany edges. Aroma of cold Irish coffee, burnt walnuts, cold espresso, molasses, hard caramel candy, brown rum, almond cookies, mocha ice cream, Belgian chocolates somewhere, hints of blood-like iron, dry cloves, crumbled 'speculoos', nutmeg, gravy faraway in the background. Densely sweetish onset, prune, fig and some dried banana, but nowhere sticky - and in fact less sweet than many imperial stouts these days would 'begin'. Light sourish and umami accents add complexity, carbonation remains softish; full, oily body, a tad syrupy perhaps but retaining a high degree of 'drinkability'. Smooth, deeply toasted-nutty, toffeeish and black-chocolatey maltiness shifting to a full, mouth-filling yet elegant and aromatic coffee-like roasted bitterness, reinforced by a spicy hop kick and whisky-like booze in the finish; a lovely mix of toffee, molasses and dark 'fondant' chocolate keeps lingering along with the coffee bitterness, making for a highly satisfying ending. Quite 'basic' in its general make-up and that is what I would like to see more in imperial (and other) stouts these days; this is a bit 'old school' even in putting - to modern American ànd Scandinavian standards - emphasis on the roasted coffee-like aspect, and even if it remains a very opulent, complex beer, it also retains remarkable smoothness and balance. The beauty primarily lies in those latter aspects here - this is as classic in style as it gets for a 21st-century 'impy', and I love it.

6.8

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Pours clear, nearly black trough very dark brown. Small tanned head. Smell is full, roasty, dry grainyness. Ashy, burnt. Caramelly. Taste is full, bit bitter. Ashy. Roasty, mildly 'plastic' . Harsh MF, relatively thick. Medium low carbo. Ashy finish. Noticable strength, yet not boozy.

6.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

7.5

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Jet black with a small beige head. Dark chocolate and molasses. Dark molasses and sweet with a long finish. Sticky, sweet and bitter.

6.3

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Bottled, from Systembolaget. Black, small beige head. Aroma of salty licorice. Sweet with full body and rounded mouthfeel. Syrup and salmiak, coffee and treacle. Oily peppery finish. Quite sticky.

7

Intensywny, cielisty, kakaowo-kawowy, troche palony, kwaskowate posmaki, baaaardzo pozytywnie i do tego dosc szybko znika. Alko schowane.

7

Bottle. Pours dark brown. Aroma and flavor are sweet, chocolate, roast, malt, coffee, booze. Overall: good.

7.5

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Black, lasting beige head. Aroma has roast, brown sugar, caramel, tiny hint of smoke. Sweet flavour, roasted malt, caramel, a little licorice. Warming, creamy and smooth.