Hr. Frederiksen
Amager Bryghus

Rerate, 500 ml bottle, batch #441, will soon be available at Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 10.5%. Black colour, large to moderate tan head. Strong roasty aroma, notes of coffee, hints of vanilla and dark chocolate. Medium sweet and roasty flavour, same impression as upon first sample. No change of score.

Original rating: At Copenhagen Beer Festival. Pitch black colour. Aroma of vanilla and chocolate, also roasty coffee notes. Roasty flavour, again with notes of coffee, vanilla and chocolate. Jolly good stuff.

500 ML bottle, vintage 2019, poured into a tulip glass at 57 degrees F:
L - dark and mysterious with a hazelnut head that lingered
S - bready
T - malt, molasses, coffee
F - thick and chewy with minimal carbonation
O - very nice beer, roasted malt and molasses flavor, but not too sweet

 

 

Great!

 

 

Tried 2012 in 2020. Great age.

Picked up at Whole Foods at the Domain, North Austin. This beer was different than many of imperials in this category. First, it had a pretty foamy 1.5 finger head, many of these beers are pretty flat. Second, it was not jet black but has some amber hue to it. Most importantly the taste is much different. Far more heavy malt and toasted (vs. sweet) caramel came out in this beer. In some ways it drank more like a quad. I really enjoyed this hybrid quad/stout flavor profile. And as others have said, very full mouthfeel in this beer.

Dark brown color with a small beige head, aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, coffee and caramel, taste is medium sweet with a medium bitter finish, full body, oily, soft carbonation.

 

 

 

Black clear with reddish hue. Ivory foam, 3 finger tall. Moderate retention, frothy, leaving excellent lacing. Moderate aroma of dried fruits, plums, rich malty chocolate aroma, alcohol. High malty sweet, aggressively roasted coffee flavor. Chocolate, dry fruits, high bitterness - rather hoppy but also coming from roasted malt. Oily, chewy, full body. Medium bitter-sweet aftertaste. Bit warm. Harsh. But alcohol well covered.

Delicious, too roasty for my tongue.

 

 

From Cervezalandia. In Teku glass. Playing Costume Quest. It gives an initial impression of excellent balance. Then alcohol starts to be noticiable but not bothering. However, it ends affecting the head. Not sweet for a RIS but fairly bitter

 

 

 

Bomber bottle served in a Belgian snifter.
Looks like used motor oil with a thin nibbling head that quickly dissipates.
Full thick body with moderate warmth.
Rich aroma and rich, bold flavor. Bitter - sweet, with both tastes on display. Complex roasted malt flavor with faint spicy hops.
Overall: excellent. Improved with warming.

500ml bottle
10.5% ABV
Royal Bank Plaza LCBO Outlet (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
October 3, 2014
The beer pours a solid black with a half inch light tan head. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, and copius amounts of anise and chocolate. The mouthfeel is full-bodied, quite possibly the fullest bodied beer I have ever tried. The flavour is roasted malt, dark chocolate, coffee and smoke. An excellent beer.

A truly amazing example of a Russian Imperial. Very roasty with a balanced bitterness that makes every sip seem like heaven. Burnt coffee with earthy notes in smell. Taste consists of dark chocolate, caramel, dark malts, vanilla and a hint of oak. Booze is well masked.

500ml bottle poured into a snifter.

Very deep brown to almost tar black as a showcase, the pour builds up thick creamy tan head that withstands with good retention before slowly collapsing to a long-lasting frothy layer on the surface and leaving lots of sticky lacing. There are lots of small and big sediment upon the pour.

In a nose, it is led by roasted malt together with coffee, cocoa, and chocolate. Then it is caramel, vanilla, licorice, burnt bread, oat smoothness, charred, and candy. Hop is significant with its spice, pine, and citrus.

The taste is of course dominated by all those malt flavors of coffee, cocoa, chocolate, caramel, vanilla, candy, smoothness from oat, charred, burnt bread, and roasted together with licorice and hop profile with its crisp citrus, pine, and big grassy bitterness. Hop character here is big and bold in order to balance the intensity of malt.

The body is rather full with slight stickiness and moderate carbonation that generates smooth mouthfeel through the palate. The overall feeling is not too thin or too hefty but quite balance to carry all the things well. Finish is pleasantly dry.

This big Stout has vast array of malty goodness extensively ranging from burnt bread, roasted, charred, coffee, cocoa, chocolate, vanilla, and caramel, also with rich and intense Centennial hop profile. Alcohol is well hidden making it good for sipping.

 

 

This one was just too earthy and roasty for me. It pours a black color with a firm 1 finger head. The aromas are of chalk, roasted malts, and smoked ash. The flavors are practically earth, blood, and roast. Feel is pretty dry and moderately carbonated. I didn't care much for it, I'd gladly pass next time.

 

 

 

Pours jet black, with half a finger of brown head. The foam quickly disappears, leaving a lot of lacing.

The smell is rich with roasted coffee, cocoa and a bit of tar. I feel a slight hint of figs somewhere as well.

The taste starts with lots of creamy coffee, and is a bit sweeter than I expected. There is a vinous quality to this, that I usually get from quads. Warming booze on the finish.

Medium bodied and smooth, I would have liked a bit more viscosity.

Overall, a terrific Impy, that has a pretty unique quality in the slightly vinous texture. I really enjoyed this, but a 500 ml bottle is a bit much to down in one sitting, by one self.

500ml bottle - a nice ode to a friend who helped them build their brewery, if I'm to believe the marketing screed on the label.

This beer pours a solid black abyss, with scant red-cola basal edges, and one zaftig finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly light brown head, which leaves some dense distant tree copse lace around the glass as it quickly abates.

It smells of bittersweet chocolate, caramel/toffee malt, some further exotic treacle-like sweetness, weak cafe-au-lait, Scandihoovian licorice candies, an indistinct dark orchard fruitiness, and some plain leafy, musty, and herbal green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, brown sugar syrup, a faint damp ashiness, dry cocoa powder, acrid coffee beans, stale cream, still muddled raisin and plum fruity notes, spicy anise, and more earthy, weedy, and slightly perfumed floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly benign in its simplistic frothiness, the body a solid medium-heavy weight, and sort of smooth, as the char takes a toll here, as well as a simmering, yet not quite exploding alcohol astringency. It finishes off-dry, just, as the malt falters, and the hops, coffee, and boozy essences swarm.

Overall, this is another very well-made Nordic-style (even though they claim Yankee inspiration) big-boy stout - I can't exactly delineate the differences, but they are there, and they are subtle. Whatever, odes aside, we have a nice and warming brew, one worth sipping at while avoiding the return to sub-zero temperatures outside right now.

 

Alweer een topper van Amager, lekker zoete stout!

L - Black with almost no head

S - Quite off on the smell, a bit of coffee

T - wow, I wasn't expecting that complex and intense taste after the low profile smell. This is a lot about coffee, a bit about cocoa powder. There is a good hop balance (earthy notes plus some pine). It's not boozy even if the alcohol wraps up the entire thing. Some vinous notes are there with some red berries
M - Quite thick with a lower carbonation

O - A great RIS. One of the best I've had