The Craic
Nøgne Ø
- From:
- Nøgne Ø
- Norway
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 7%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 4.86%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 05, 2020
- Added:
- May 07, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
NO SCORE
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Blackberry Porter
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.78/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.78/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
330ml bottle - the Norwegians have strangely taken a concept from well across the North Sea in naming this fruited-up brew.
This beer pours a pretty solid black, with very subtle amber basal edges, and three chubby fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky brown head, which leaves some decent random splotchy lace around the glass as it slowly but surely abates.
It smells of semi-sweet chocolate, bready and doughy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, muddled dark berry notes, a hint of generic cafe-au-lait, and some plain musty, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a bland toffee addendum, medium discount store cocoa powder, a fairly fresh-seeming blackberry and raspberry fruitiness, some mild wispy smoke, weak anise spice, and more underwhelming earthy, floral, and musty hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite banal in its barely-there frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and surprisingly smooth, as nothing really possesses the temerity to interfere with a good time here. It finishes off-dry, the chocolate, caramel, and blackberries making a day of it.
Overall - this is an enjoyable enough offering, the fruity addition to a near Baltic Porter working its near magic on my suspicious palate. Speaking of which, the 14-proof booze factor is only now showing its hand, and I'm afraid it beats mine.
May 10, 2018This beer pours a pretty solid black, with very subtle amber basal edges, and three chubby fingers of puffy, rocky, and chunky brown head, which leaves some decent random splotchy lace around the glass as it slowly but surely abates.
It smells of semi-sweet chocolate, bready and doughy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, muddled dark berry notes, a hint of generic cafe-au-lait, and some plain musty, leafy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy caramel malt, a bland toffee addendum, medium discount store cocoa powder, a fairly fresh-seeming blackberry and raspberry fruitiness, some mild wispy smoke, weak anise spice, and more underwhelming earthy, floral, and musty hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite banal in its barely-there frothiness, the body an adequate middleweight, and surprisingly smooth, as nothing really possesses the temerity to interfere with a good time here. It finishes off-dry, the chocolate, caramel, and blackberries making a day of it.
Overall - this is an enjoyable enough offering, the fruity addition to a near Baltic Porter working its near magic on my suspicious palate. Speaking of which, the 14-proof booze factor is only now showing its hand, and I'm afraid it beats mine.
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