Black Rituals
Amager Bryghus in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark 🇩🇰
Collab with: Voodoo Brewing Co.Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production
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Edgar Allan Poe, journalist and famous writer of many a macabre, gothic tale, was driven close to insanity by grief over his young wife’s untimely death in 1847, aged only 24. Virginia Clemm was a sweet, innocent and very healthy young bride, when Poe married her as a 13-year old. That her health deteriorated within so very few years caused such agony to Poe that he initiated his own private, criminal investigation after her death. It turned out that Marylou Shrew, the lady who tended to Virginia in her sickbed was anything but the compassionate nurse, she pretended to be. After confessing and being brought to trial, she explained in the Philadelphia court, how a jealous ex-lover of Poe, Elizabeth Osgood, had paid her to slowly poison Poe’s young wife, and perform all sorts of daily black rituals of sorcery and witchcraft, constantly encouraged by an eager Miss Osgood. This tonic of poison and evil magic eventually drove Virginia to an early grave. As if plain murder wasn’t enough, the Pennsylvania laws prohibiting any degree of sorcery and spiritualism made the case even graver. The honorable judge presiding had no other option than to sentence both Marylou Shrew and Elizabeth Osgood to lifetime imprisonment for murder and conspiracy to murder. Had they been males they probably would have been hanged by the neck, but instead they both ended their lives in the notorious Eastern State Penitentiary. The conviction of his wife’s murderers seemingly offered Edgar Allan Poe little consolation. His poetry turned even bleaker, even misogynous, and he died less than two years after his beloved Virginia.
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7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2020
at 21:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Pours cloudy very dark brown with airy dark tan head. Clear aroma of coffee and malt, with notes of yeast and touches of caramwl and dried fruit. Bitter, roasty and coffeelike flavour with seeetish notes of dried fruit, caramel malt and yeast and touches of liquorice and lactose. Botter, hoppy and toasty aftertaste with estery and malty touches. Warming alcohol presence. Well-balanced, tasty and satiating. Well done, Amager!
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2020
at 18:00
8.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Apr 2020
at 15:47
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle 330ml. @ home.
[ As Amager / Voodoo Black Rituals ].
ABV: 10.0%. Clear dark black colour with a large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark malt, molasses, sweet malt, chocolate. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet moderate and bitter with a long duration, molasses, sweet malt, dark malt, sugary, roasted - chocolate, alcohol, light wood - barrel. Body is medium to medium full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is warming and light alcoholic. [20200328]
7-4-8-4-15
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2020
at 13:17
7/10
Tried
on 28 Mar 2020
at 21:38
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 330 ml, at Že V Redu Primož. Black with tan head. Roasted malts, chocolate, dark fruit, cocoa, some coffee, medium sweetness with bitter finish. Medium+ bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
at
Že v redu, Primož - Ljubljana Beer Shop
on 19 Mar 2020
at 19:53
6.8/10
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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.
Tried
on 15 Mar 2020
at 13:23
7/10
0,33 litre Bottle from Systembolaget Charlottenberg. Black with little head. Roasted malts, coffee, bitterness. Liqorice, Chocolate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2020
at 22:08
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Flaska från SB. En riktigt saltlakrits-IS. Lätt sälta, salmiak, fudge, brända körsbär, mörk choklad, lätt kärva smaker. Koncentrerad smak. Maffigt och gott.
Tried
on 06 Mar 2020
at 19:26
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tried
on 29 Feb 2020
at 17:13