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The Fundamental Blackhorn
Hornbeer
- From:
- Hornbeer
- Denmark
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
Ranked #1,657 - ABV:
- 11%
- Score:
- 89
Ranked #10,808 - Avg:
- 4.01 | pDev: 7.48%
- Reviews:
- 23
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 26, 2023
- Added:
- Jun 07, 2011
- Wants:
- 7
- Gots:
- 9
Coffee malt, chocolate malt, black malt, honey. Dry hopped and aged on oak and walnut casks.
120 IBU.
120 IBU.
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Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
4.26/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
4.26/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
May 2012: Sample at Copenhagen Beer Festival. Pitch black colour, brown head. Strong roasty aroma and flavour with notes of coffee, liquorice, oak and walnuts. Can’t detect the honey. Not too sweet. An excellent and powerful beer!
May 26, 2023Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
4.1/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
had a ways back at a tasting from notes...
Looks black with a deep red edge, has some peaty smoke, licorice, charred wood, faint coffee, earthy top soil, no booze anywhere, I get some grit and a charred finish, intense dark stuff and I'm grooving on it
Mar 30, 2017Looks black with a deep red edge, has some peaty smoke, licorice, charred wood, faint coffee, earthy top soil, no booze anywhere, I get some grit and a charred finish, intense dark stuff and I'm grooving on it
Reviewed by Nicolaiw from Denmark
4.08/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours dark brown, almost black, beautiful frothy tan head.
Aroma has lots of coffee, cocoa, tobacco, roasted malt, little molasses.
Taste is bitter chocolate, cold brewed coffee, moderate amount of hops, bitter finish.
Mar 28, 2017Aroma has lots of coffee, cocoa, tobacco, roasted malt, little molasses.
Taste is bitter chocolate, cold brewed coffee, moderate amount of hops, bitter finish.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.95/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.95/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
500ml bottle - so, this is sort of the un-peated Black Magic Woman, then?
This beer pours a solid black abyss, with the barest of red cola basal edges, and two fingers of puffy, very loosely foamy, and quite bubbly dark brown head, which leaves a bit of random descending alien warship lace around the glass as it genially abates.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, some biscuity toffee, a buttered white bread weirdness, cafe-au-lait, weak black licorice, muddled citrus/pine west coast Americana, a free-range ashiness, and some leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some soused-up toffee measures, raw brown honey-flecked sugar, edgy anise spice, bittersweet cocoa powder, a still hard to love mixed citrus and piney hop bitterness, and some moving in without a permit metallic booziness.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its plainly rendered frothiness, the body a solid medium-heavy weight, and mostly smooth, with a hard to pin down creaminess always at the outer gates, as it were. It finishes generally sweet, the cocoa, honey, and malt seeing to having it their way (apologies to Burger King), alongside the lingering generic hop bitterness.
Overall, this is yet another big-ass brew from this Danish concern, but one with a claim of '120' IBUS. Let's address that, shall we? Ok, nothing here suggests a huge (I can only picture M. Trump right now, fuck) hop offset, but there is just enough actual bitterness hanging around here to keep this offering from going off the proverbial rails.
Sep 06, 2016This beer pours a solid black abyss, with the barest of red cola basal edges, and two fingers of puffy, very loosely foamy, and quite bubbly dark brown head, which leaves a bit of random descending alien warship lace around the glass as it genially abates.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, some biscuity toffee, a buttered white bread weirdness, cafe-au-lait, weak black licorice, muddled citrus/pine west coast Americana, a free-range ashiness, and some leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some soused-up toffee measures, raw brown honey-flecked sugar, edgy anise spice, bittersweet cocoa powder, a still hard to love mixed citrus and piney hop bitterness, and some moving in without a permit metallic booziness.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its plainly rendered frothiness, the body a solid medium-heavy weight, and mostly smooth, with a hard to pin down creaminess always at the outer gates, as it were. It finishes generally sweet, the cocoa, honey, and malt seeing to having it their way (apologies to Burger King), alongside the lingering generic hop bitterness.
Overall, this is yet another big-ass brew from this Danish concern, but one with a claim of '120' IBUS. Let's address that, shall we? Ok, nothing here suggests a huge (I can only picture M. Trump right now, fuck) hop offset, but there is just enough actual bitterness hanging around here to keep this offering from going off the proverbial rails.
Reviewed by CrazyDavros from Australia
3.64/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.64/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Pours black with a dark tan head.
Nose shows liquorice, woody notes, sweet malt, caramel and chocolate fudge.
Heavy and decadent flavours, with lots of roasted malt, some liquorice and a whack of booze.
Jul 17, 2015Nose shows liquorice, woody notes, sweet malt, caramel and chocolate fudge.
Heavy and decadent flavours, with lots of roasted malt, some liquorice and a whack of booze.
Reviewed by aleigator from Germany
4.39/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.39/5 rDev +9.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
Pours a huge beige head, with a viscous, motor oil black color.
Tastes very hoppy for an imperial stout, with leavy, almost fruit hops among bready to biscuity malts. Mingles a walnut aroma into this foundation, putting the beer into a more typical stout direction, revealing roasted coffee and even a honeyed hint.
Has a lower carbonation and a medium to fuller mouthfeel, exhibiting its fantastic variety of flavors.
Begins silky smooth, with black ground coffee, bakers chocolate and old walnut shells. Drinks amazingly dough, with lots of cream balancing sucessfully the distinct, earthy bitterness. A whiff of honey from the nose gets transformed into the flavors, adding just a glance of sweetness to the dominant coffee, also evoking glazed caramel, but only in smallest quantities. Finishes with the honey sweetness, luscious fudge, a distinct, earthy nut infused maltiness, among slightly tropical hops, creating a silk dryness which then evokes the prominent coffee bitterness.
Wow, what a treat! This features the most versatile possible taste for a non ba-stout, exhibiting black ipa features, coffee stout features, and sweet oatmeal stout features, all blending perfectly together, gently illustrated by whipped cream.
Jun 28, 2015Tastes very hoppy for an imperial stout, with leavy, almost fruit hops among bready to biscuity malts. Mingles a walnut aroma into this foundation, putting the beer into a more typical stout direction, revealing roasted coffee and even a honeyed hint.
Has a lower carbonation and a medium to fuller mouthfeel, exhibiting its fantastic variety of flavors.
Begins silky smooth, with black ground coffee, bakers chocolate and old walnut shells. Drinks amazingly dough, with lots of cream balancing sucessfully the distinct, earthy bitterness. A whiff of honey from the nose gets transformed into the flavors, adding just a glance of sweetness to the dominant coffee, also evoking glazed caramel, but only in smallest quantities. Finishes with the honey sweetness, luscious fudge, a distinct, earthy nut infused maltiness, among slightly tropical hops, creating a silk dryness which then evokes the prominent coffee bitterness.
Wow, what a treat! This features the most versatile possible taste for a non ba-stout, exhibiting black ipa features, coffee stout features, and sweet oatmeal stout features, all blending perfectly together, gently illustrated by whipped cream.
The Fundamental Blackhorn from Hornbeer
Beer rating:
89 out of
100 with
62 ratings
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