Dublin Black
Gamla Slottskällans Bryggeri AB

Pours a beer black as night with a fingerthick chocolatebrown foam on top. Theres some carbonation along the edges of the glass.

Smell is burned malt, some alchohol, a somewhat sour trace together with milkchocolate and coffee. There is a bready thickness in there, although the smell was qomewhat weak.

Taste is bitter. First comes a large burned bitterness, thats lifted by some milky feeling. Coffe strikes in together with more bitterness and some chocolate. Very round and filling beer that finishes dry, somewhat crisp and with a bitterness still lurking around.

A nice, dry bitter irish stout. Good taste and another nice brew from slottskällan!

The colour is opaque black, the very generous and large light brown foam settles to a two thinger thick compact head, complete with a nice crater. Elegant!

The smell is dominated by a burned flavour, but there is also some notes of bitter hops.

The carbonation is gentle but at the same time refreshing with medium-sized bubbles.

The taste could me summarized in "complex, burned, dry". At first, a blend of coffee, cocoa and even some sweet liquorice, then a powerfull bitterness emerges, but the first notes stays intact. There is also a peculiar "Slottskällans" taste in the palette, a dry note with some sort of lactose or so. The aftertaste is long and elegant with a stout (sic) bitterness and an somewhat salty touch.

Acording to the brewery’s web site, those are the ingredients: Pilsner, dark caramel, chokolate and black malt. The hops are Northern Brewer, Fuggle and East Kent Golding. Yeast: Worthington Whiteshield.

Slottskällans is a small, almost micre brewery that seems to be able to make beers in the most diverse directions; ma it be an Irish stout, a Czech pilsner, a Baltic lager or a pale ale. Always impressing, never dissapointing. Sweden's finest? Among the top three berwers at least.