Draft. An unclear dark red-brown beer with a thin brown head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of berries, herbs, licorice, and spices - especially muscat. The flavor is sweet matly with notes of spices, herbs, berries, and alcohol that burn the tongue lightly and warms the body, leding to a dry spicy and alcoholic finish.

Special draft version of this at Lord Nelson. The difference should be that it was kegged right after Brygmesterens Bryg nr. 13 - a Super Saison, though my guess is that some of the Super Saison due to this order of kegging has come in to this keg. A pitch black beer with a brown shine under a lazing light tan head. The aroma is sweet with acidic notes of brettanomyces as well as light notes of roasted malt, and so is the flavor, leading to a both tart and roasted finish. The body is nice - what else to expect from a mixture of a 13.5% ABV and a 10% ABV beer. A very special and very well working blend, for me better than both the base beers. [8/4/8/4/16=4.0]

Medium offwhite head. Orangey body. Malty straw aroma with alcoholic toffee and faint citric notes. Sweet-dry caramelly toffee taste with alcoholic citrus notes. Very rounded, harmonic, and balanced. Fizzy mouthfeel. Dry orangey papery hop aftertaste. Very nice. (0.5l bottle shared by KnutAlbert.)

bottle. Aroma is too faint to really enjoy what there is.bread, caramel, roasted stuff. but way too faint. pours hazy brown with an agressively huge head, that settles to a nice head soon thereafter. flavor: much stronger than aroma advertised. caramel, roasted malts, brown sugar, raisins. lots of good stuff in there.

draught at EBF Copenhagen 2008 ... Deep red ... slightly sour nose ... light and fruity ... not up to much...

Sample at EBF Copenhagen. Medium head with medium duration. Color is hazy amber. Aroma and taste are quite malty with some sweetness and yeast.

Sample outside Ølbutikken in Copenhagen – thanks to Yngwie and Beer_2000. A decent stout which is not run over by the chilli. Smell of roasted dark malts and spices. Assorted flavours of sweet, dark chocolate, some coffee and with a smooth chilli touch behind. Dry, fruity bitterness to the ending. Tan coloured body (13.09.2008).

Sample at Copenhagen EBF. Medium head with medium duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are sweet roast malt, vanilla and licorice.

220ml taster, draught. Dark mahogany body. Missing head. Vague aroma of spiced fruits. Juniper mixed with candy sugar coming through, followed by a taste of lemony bitterness. Quite well balanced in flavour. Medium palate (Lord Nelson, Copenhagen 11.09.2008).

220ml draught at Lord Nelson, Copenhagen. Clear and deep amber in body colour under a film-type head. Floral smell with a touch of pale malts. Refreshing sweet, dark fruits in flavour, but otherwise rather characterless. Lively carbonated (11.09.2008).

Bottle. It pours an almost black body, clear looking, with a nice, tan head leaving lacings. Lots of chololate in the aroma, along with roasted malt and some coffee, dark sugar, some alcohol and citrusy hops. Warming and more or less full-bodied in the mouth, with flavors of alcohol, lots of chocolate, coffee, sugar, roasted malt, citrusy hops giving some bitterness, and a touch of coffee-like bitterness. There’s also a quite well hidden aroma and flavor of cooked vegetables I’ve never found in an imperial stout before. Alcohol, chocolate, coffee and a pleasant bitterness in the finish. I could wish for an even fuller body and a little less sugars, but it’s sure a really nice one. (080929)