Bottle at Cat & Barrell Vejle. Pours dark brownish black with large dark brown head. Aroma is intense roasted malt, vanilla, cream, gravy, prunes, raisins and oak. Taste is very sweet, light to medium bitter and faint acidic and faint salty. Body is creamy with soft carbonation. Finish is long and rich with notes of malt, brown sugar, syrup, vanilla, prunes, raisins and oak

Bottle. It's more or less black in the glass, with a dense, finger-thick light tan head. Some curtains left. The aroma has lots of licorice, vanilla and roasted malts, along with coffee, dark chocolate and a quite vinous touch. That vinous touch is certainly something different than the light alcohol touch from the regular Limfjords Porter, so I guess the port wine did some tricks here. As the beer warms up, the vanilla gets more pronounced, but not hiding any of the other flavors. It's actually the opposite, as both dark dried fruit, caramel or brown sugar and a generic spiced (in a rum-like way) touch show up too. It's full-bodied, warming and semi-sweet, perhaps a bit hard on the carbonation. Roasted malts, vinous or a boozy notes, coffee, dark chocolate, licorice, vanilla notes, prunes, brown sugar and medium browned fudge in the flavor. Feels a bit less complex than the aroma, but still very nice. Lasting vinous and sweet finish with vanilla, dark chocolate, some coffee and licorice. A delicious Holiday beer indeed. Perhaps a bit sweet, but it works just fine. Pity the flavor isn't as top notch as the aroma, even though the flavor too is very fine. 240124