“Freshly sliced, sweet and savory taste with crisp biscuits, waffles, dark syrup, raisins, chocolate, roasted nuts and orange peel. Served at 8-14 ° C as a snack or for chocolate desserts.”
Served in a snifter. This ominous looker pours an ink black with an extremely well retained two finger head. Impressive lace work clinging to the glass as we indulge in this moreish beast.
The depth and complexity on the nose is off the charts. The bottle states that it’s a “honey stout” but the honey is merely a passenger in this prime mover. We detect molasses, dark chocolate, leather, licorice, honey, vanilla, blueberries, coffee, lactose and fig just to name a few. There’s also a hint of powdered cocoa creeping in as well. Dead set cracker of an aroma.
Not the big and brawny body we were expecting but it’s still packing some weight. The booze (10% ABV) is obviously sharp and that’s bolstered by a fair dose of hop bitterness. The texture is creamy with Co2 kept to a minimum.
Holy moly the succession of flavours here is outstanding. It begins with a dark roasted malt that incorporates an espresso bitterness, spicy licorice, peppers and bittersweet chocolate. As it progresses the sweet honey and creamy vanilla is introduced but the focus on everything dark means it carries notes of molasses, cocoa powder and hints of burnt wood in to the well drawn out finish.
Another rock solid offering from these Danish masters. Two minor things play on our mind though….1) the honey was almost non existent and 2) there was just a smidge too much bitterness for a stout in our opinion. Other than that it’s an excellent stout.