Nøgne Ø Dark Horizon 002

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Pours opaque coffee with a thin buff head. Aroma yields a strong alcohol note plus molasses, roast malt and coffee. Flavor features roast malt, molasses, coffee, and quite the alcohol bite. Texture offers firm, viscous body and jazzy fizz. Head for the horizon.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

This poured a solid black with a beige head. The aroma contains a bitch smack of alcohol along with coffee, chocolate, and dark fruit. The flavor is tons of bitter coffee beans, the alcohol shows up for the party like a drunk frat boy wanting all the attention. Some chocolate notes. This is a rough customer but is a well made beer. Overall anyone not into S+M would be ok with less than 12oz of this. I didn’t like this as much as the first try still good.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a quite large dark brown color head with good retention but minimal lacing. Aroma of raisins with sweet rich malt with subtle lactose notes as well. Taste is also a nice mix between some deep sweet rich notes with a nice creamy texture and some dominant dry raisins notes reminiscent of a dark Belgian ale. Body is quite full with a somewhat oily texture but creamy mouthfeel with good carbonation and light warming alcohol notes. Well done overall though a bit too much to have on a regular basis.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

My father used to say that not playing to win is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail, with a blouse full of goodies, but... it's just illegal. Then you get into that whole inbred thing. Kids with no teeth who do nothing but play the banjo... eat apple sauce through a straw... pork farm animals.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

pours black with dark brown head. surprised at the head for a 35 proof beer. smells sweet and choclatey. coca and a touch of coffee and molasses as well. feel is actually well done for such a strong beer. you can’t tell it’s strength til it goes down...warm all the way to the belly-right up to the point where any "hotter" would take away from it, but it doesn’t go too far. the only "bad" thing about this beer is the roasted malt flavors and hops can’t quite make their way throught the alcohol. enjoyable, but not quite worth the $24.99.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Pours out in an opaque black colour with a lasting brown foam. Huge aroma of black coffee, dark chocolate, alcohol and anise with notes of acetone, paint and spices. Full-bodied and chewy of course with notes of licorice, alcohol, coffee and paint. Long roasted and warming finish of licorice, black coffee and alcohol. At this stage, it's a bit young and hot but it deficiently has potential to be a black grandiose butterfly.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

500 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. Bottle # 12436. 39.5 degrees P, 65 IBU, ABV 17.5%. Pitch black colour, short-lived brown head. Intense and lovely aroma of dried dark fruits, liquorice, coffee, oak and tar. The flavour is intensely roasty with strong notes of coffee, liquorice and alcohol. A bit "raw", needs at least 1 year’s cellaring (probably more) to reach its potential. However, I think it is not a good idea for Nøgne Ø to make stronger versions of DH each year. 16% ABV, like DH First Ed. had, is definitely strong enough!