Bjor Vikingcider med Urter
Ciderhuset Balholm in Balestrand, Vestland, Norway 🇳🇴
Cider - Flavoured (Other) Regular|
Score
6.18
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The old, original cider that was brewed all over northern Europe, was called bjor in Norse and beor in Old English. The drink was made from fermented fruit juice, with berries and herbs, and was added honey to raise the alcohol level. Beor was regarded the most noble and valuable drink, and in the Edda poem "Allvismål" Tor is told by the dwarf Allvis that beer was for men, while beor was for the Gods. One barrel of beor was worth 5 barrels of beer. In ancient documents beor has been translated wrong to beer because the word is similar. However, beor was a type of sweet strong wine that did not contain malt at all. When the Germans in the 1500s added hops to the beer, they re-used the word beor, that became Bier/beer. We have made a modern beor from strong cider and added honey and meadowsweet. Aromatic, sweet and strong, as the drink was explained in the ancient documents.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Utseende: Gyllen.
Lukt: Eple, urter.
Smak: Eple, urter.
Skum/kullsyre: Lite skum.
Medium: Rating:8-7-6-6-6=6.5, Bottle@500ml, ABV@16%, Når@2025.11.21.
Hvor: Samling Bryne
Navn: Bjor Norsk Ur-Sider
Stil: CIDER - FLAVOURED (OTHER)
Bryggeri: Ciderhuset Balholm
Lukt: Eple, urter.
Smak: Eple, urter.
Skum/kullsyre: Lite skum.
Medium: Rating:8-7-6-6-6=6.5, Bottle@500ml, ABV@16%, Når@2025.11.21.
Hvor: Samling Bryne
Navn: Bjor Norsk Ur-Sider
Stil: CIDER - FLAVOURED (OTHER)
Bryggeri: Ciderhuset Balholm
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Nov 2025
at 14:23
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
8-3-7-4-14 Bottle, 16% ABV. Pours slightly hazy yellow, with a tiny rocky head. Aroma is musty apples, floral honey and spicy notes, as well as grassy minerals. Full body, with almost no carbonation. Flavour is sweet notes of apples, floral honey and herbal notes, as well as spicy notes and grassy minerals.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Oct 2024
at 20:52
5.4/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
December 2018: 500 ml bottle, from Vinmonopolet. ABV is 14%. Brewed on apple juice, honey and meadowsweet. No water added. Golden colour, pours moderately sparkling. Strong medicinal aroma of meadowsweet and alcohol. Sweet flavour of honey, dessert apples and alcohol, with bitter notes of the meadowsweet. Too boozy for me, really. Still drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
from Vinmonopolet Nettbutikk (netstore)
on 15 Apr 2024
at 15:18
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Klar gulbrun farge uten skum. Lukter eple og krydder. Minner litt om en dessertvin. Sødme av honning og eple. Mjødaktiig avslutning.
Tried
on 19 Feb 2022
at 21:03
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Lys gul klar med flyktig hvitt skum. Lukter epler, honning og vanilje. Fyldig. Søt. Smaker epler og honning. Minner både om dessertvin og mjød. Gøtt.
Tried
on 19 Feb 2022
at 21:03
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
KYGG 060419. Golden color with no head. Aroma is honey, apple, floral. Flavor is honey, alcohol, apple, grass, floral, herbs, spices. Nice one
Tried
on 20 May 2019
at 06:15
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle 500ml @ Gunnfryd
Pours clear golden with no head. Aroma has notes of apple, honey, alcohol and some floral and herbs. Taste is heavy sweet with a long warm, apple, honey and floral finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours clear golden with no head. Aroma has notes of apple, honey, alcohol and some floral and herbs. Taste is heavy sweet with a long warm, apple, honey and floral finish. Body is full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2019
at 18:05
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle. A clear, almost colorless drink drink, still and headless. Rather mead-ish aroma, honey, apples and some orchard and grass. It's warming, sweet and sticky on the palate, with lots of honey flavor. Apples, grass and orchard too, and a very light spiced touch. Long, warming, sticky finish. There's not much cider left in this drink. 190406
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2019
at 17:58
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Sampled @ Cider World Frankfurt 2019. A clear golden colour. Aroma of sweet riped apples, honey, some herbs. Taste of sweet apples, honey, sugar.
Tried
on 31 Mar 2019
at 14:41
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Süffiger, honigartig süßer Beginn. Spritzig, die Süße bleibt intensiv. Mittellange Abgang. 10/7/8/8//8
Tried
on 31 Mar 2019
at 14:31