Dark Force (9%)
HaandBryggeriet (Norway) in Drammen, Buskerud, Norway 🇳🇴
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.58
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"Double" (imperial) wheat stout.
This imperial really strikes back. From a strange country far, far away, comes the only Imperial Wheat Stout in the known universe. Once again, the ’Hand’ brewery - four guys brewing in their spare time, on an absurdly small scale - boldly goes where no brewery has gone before.
This imperial really strikes back. From a strange country far, far away, comes the only Imperial Wheat Stout in the known universe. Once again, the ’Hand’ brewery - four guys brewing in their spare time, on an absurdly small scale - boldly goes where no brewery has gone before.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
13/05/2011 Brasserie 4:20 (tap). Nera, imenetrabile, con schiuma abbondante color cappuccino, abbastanza persistente. Aroma intenso di frumento, caffè, qualche leggero off flavour metallico. In bocca è caffettosa, amarognola, con punte di frumento e note lievemente metalliche. Corpo medio, carbonazione corretta. Interessante, anche se non è il mio genere di birra. Non credo fosse al meglio della forma.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jan 2012
at 14:45
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
From a 500ml bottle on 26/12/2011 (batch 353, brewed on 6/4/2011, best before 6/4/2014, 9% ABV). Pours black with a medium brown head which disappears quickly. Has a pleasant but only moderate aroma of coffee, chocolate and dark fruit. The flavour begins with big dollops of sweet milk chocolate, followed by a distinct and quite sharp burnt/roasted malt flavour, along with some warming alcohol. I can’t detect any wheat in this at all. It’s nicely carbonated and has a creamy texture. A very enjoyable, big, sweet stout, though perhaps not quite as distinctive as I thought it would be.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2011
at 00:31
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Black, fast fading brown head.Alcoholic brown sugar nose.Syrupy sweet fore, medium alcohol harshness in mid, lasting medium roast finish
Tried
on 19 Oct 2011
at 14:04
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle @ Gloria, Kuopio
Batch 271, brygget 19.02.2010. Pours pitch black with a massive foamy and caramelly beige colored head. Aroma has notes of fruits, grass, apricose, roasted malts and coffee. Taste is quite fruity and wheaty until a massive roastiness kicks in. Notes of fruits, smoke, espresso coffee, chocolate and toffee. Sweet and smooth, but also slightly roasty and bitter finish. Full bodied, perhaps a bit too carbonated. Nice, surprisingly well balanced imperial wheat stout.
Batch 271, brygget 19.02.2010. Pours pitch black with a massive foamy and caramelly beige colored head. Aroma has notes of fruits, grass, apricose, roasted malts and coffee. Taste is quite fruity and wheaty until a massive roastiness kicks in. Notes of fruits, smoke, espresso coffee, chocolate and toffee. Sweet and smooth, but also slightly roasty and bitter finish. Full bodied, perhaps a bit too carbonated. Nice, surprisingly well balanced imperial wheat stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2011
at 09:51
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Batch 287. Bottle Date: 6-24-2010. Purchased at Julio’s liquor’s about 8 months ago. Don’t remember what I paid for it. Used a snifter. Served at cellar temperature. Thick, fluffy, beige head with good head retention. Well, carbonated. Nose is sweet wheat with hints of sugar and roasted malt. Flavor is a complex blend, lots going on here. Flavor is moderately bitter roast, some light smoke, baker’s chocolate. Hints of licorice. Nice creaminess in the mouthfeel, makes you want to drink more. Don’t pick up the 9 % ABV at all. Goes down easy, great drinkability. Excellent Impy stout. This is top tier, real nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2011
at 16:47
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Imperial Wheat Stout sounds interesting indeed. There’s just something about imperial stout that doesn’t fit my taste.. Seems they always end up being less than expected.
Tried
on 31 Jul 2011
at 12:45
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Home. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma of dry roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, light smoke. Taste is roasted malt, very dry,, coffee, dark chocolate, light dark fruit notes. Full creamy body, rather high carbonation. 201109
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2011
at 11:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle at shared at Håndverkerstuene. Pours black with tan head. Chocolate and fruit in the aroma with coffee, wheat and toffee in the flavor. Way too much carbonation spoils the beer (Rated offline 2011/04/15)
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jun 2011
at 08:35
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Black with large dark brown head - aroma is of roasted malt - taste is the same roasted malt, along with some cofee and hints of sweet licorishe - finish is again some lingering bitterness from roasted malt - smooth and well made, very good
Tried
on 27 May 2011
at 12:55
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Dunkler, stark karbonisierter Antrunk mit getreidigen und toffeeartigen Malzaromen. Nur langsam verändert sich das Malzaroma und wird intensiver und breiter, nach und nach gesellen sich fruchtige und intensive Schokoladenaromen hinzu, die trotz ihrer Komplexität nicht, wie oft bei anderen Bieren, in die Trockenheit abdriften. Intensiv malzig, zum Ende kurz alkoholisch brennend, was aber im Malz untergeht. Komplexes, sehr aromatisches Bier – Spitze! 11/13/12/14/12/14
Tried
on 22 May 2011
at 12:06