Hornsleth 1000 EBC
Stronzo Brewing Co.
- From:
- Stronzo Brewing Co.
- Denmark
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 14%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.61 | pDev: 43.68%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 20, 2014
- Added:
- Jan 17, 2014
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jeffo from Netherlands
1.47/5 rDev -43.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
1.47/5 rDev -43.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 1.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
Got this one from Motherbrother a while back. Cheers! The label claims 1000 EBC, making it the darkest beer in the world. Let's see if that's really true.
From a 37,5cl bottle into a snifter
Best before April 2014
APPEARANCE: This is the darkest thing I've ever seen. Pitch black and syrupy. Makes most other imperial stouts look like coke. Yup. Black. The pour yields a small, fizzy, very dark mocha colored head with lousy retention. Head quickly vanishes to a light wisp. Pitch, and I mean pitch black body, syrupy, with no carbonation evident. Looks flat pretty quickly, but this is black and syrupy. Coats the sides of the glass in syrupy goo. You can't get any blacker than this. Lousy head and looks flat quickly, but points for being as black as advertised.
SMELL: Roasted and burnt charcoal, ash, port wine and some dark chocolate in there. Mostly ash, charcoal and alcohol. Pretty nasty.
TASTE: Very nasty. Charred and burnt charcoal, burnt rubber, ash and roasted grain. Port wine and alcohol at the swallow with lots more charred rubber, burnt grains and charcoal at the swallow. Boozy and boozy with a hint of dark chocolate trying to make its mark. This is simply an ashy, charred, rubber booze bomb. It's impossible and offensive. Drain loved it.
PALATE: Full body, thicker and syrupy, with lower levels of carbonation. Slick and silky, goes down okay and finishes very cloying. Some heat lingers, but no real burn at the swallow, surprisingly enough. Sticky and syrupy; too much so.
OVERALL: This was a successful experiment, but an absolutely undrinkable train-wreck of a beer. To get this dark a color they basically had to throw out all common sense about what makes a tasty stout beer. Too burnt, charred, ashy, boozy, offensive and horrifying to even be considered a proper interpretation of "beer." This was a lot of fun to pour down the drain as I really got to see how absolutely dark this is. That was at least impressive. Cheers again Motherbrother!
Jan 17, 2014From a 37,5cl bottle into a snifter
Best before April 2014
APPEARANCE: This is the darkest thing I've ever seen. Pitch black and syrupy. Makes most other imperial stouts look like coke. Yup. Black. The pour yields a small, fizzy, very dark mocha colored head with lousy retention. Head quickly vanishes to a light wisp. Pitch, and I mean pitch black body, syrupy, with no carbonation evident. Looks flat pretty quickly, but this is black and syrupy. Coats the sides of the glass in syrupy goo. You can't get any blacker than this. Lousy head and looks flat quickly, but points for being as black as advertised.
SMELL: Roasted and burnt charcoal, ash, port wine and some dark chocolate in there. Mostly ash, charcoal and alcohol. Pretty nasty.
TASTE: Very nasty. Charred and burnt charcoal, burnt rubber, ash and roasted grain. Port wine and alcohol at the swallow with lots more charred rubber, burnt grains and charcoal at the swallow. Boozy and boozy with a hint of dark chocolate trying to make its mark. This is simply an ashy, charred, rubber booze bomb. It's impossible and offensive. Drain loved it.
PALATE: Full body, thicker and syrupy, with lower levels of carbonation. Slick and silky, goes down okay and finishes very cloying. Some heat lingers, but no real burn at the swallow, surprisingly enough. Sticky and syrupy; too much so.
OVERALL: This was a successful experiment, but an absolutely undrinkable train-wreck of a beer. To get this dark a color they basically had to throw out all common sense about what makes a tasty stout beer. Too burnt, charred, ashy, boozy, offensive and horrifying to even be considered a proper interpretation of "beer." This was a lot of fun to pour down the drain as I really got to see how absolutely dark this is. That was at least impressive. Cheers again Motherbrother!
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