Gotlandsdricka (Mixed Fermentation)
Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
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Gotlandsdricka, meaning "Drink of Gotland", is a farmhouse ale brewed with smoked malt, juniper, and myrica gale. It's inspired by the Scandanavian farmhouse brewing tradition. Gontlandsdricka is fabled to be the beer of the Vikings. Rudimentary malting techniques would likely have lent a smokey character to the beer and other plants besides hops (such as juniper and gale) were used for bittering.
Jester King Gotlandsdricka was fermented in stainless steel with our mixed culture of brewers yeast and wild yeast. It was naturally conditioned in kegs and bottles.
Jester King Gotlandsdricka was fermented in stainless steel with our mixed culture of brewers yeast and wild yeast. It was naturally conditioned in kegs and bottles.
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8/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Sep 2025
at 11:30
7.4/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
Keg at Man in The Moon, Stockholm. Clear deep golden, small head. The aroma holds a wide array of smokey elements. Tart with above medium body and clean, rounded mouthfeel. Charcuterie and tarry smoke meets tartness and juniper berries. Low bitterness. Very interesting beer, but very loosely related to Gotlanddricka - if at all.
Tried
from Draft
at
Man in the Moon
on 16 Jan 2025
at 16:22
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Aroma: Fresh berries and smoke. Flavour: Sour berries with smoke and piet. Aftertaste is sour and piet. Colour: Hazy yellow with a white head. From: Bottle @ DrikBeer webshop.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Oct 2023
at 15:57
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750mL bottled August 2022, batch 7, drunk 7/8/23. Clear, highly effervescent, blonde-golden with a massive, white head of modest retention. Nose is just insane. A plethora of varied smoked malts/wheats shows rich barbecue, black pepper, peated Scotch and deep wood. Very light souring bacterial notes on the back end, with supportive, but not overbearing maltiness and soft Brett. Clean, no alcohol. In the mouth it's surprisingly minimally smokey; odd that it can be so strong in the nose but so light in flavor. In it's place, sweet gale and juniper provide light acidity, while souring bacteria provides long, rich, lemony sourness. Soft wheat, hints of peppery, salty smoked malt and a soft, well-carbonated texture with good attenuation. Clean, no alcohol, not too acidic.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2023
at 13:16
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy deep golden with a white head - Smokey aroma - Smoked malt body with some herbal flavours - The smoked malt flavour goes into the finish - This was nice
Tried
on 14 Jul 2019
at 16:29
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Smoke and some citrus, lime. Pours hazy orange with ok head. A little apricot. Pours hazy orange with good head and lacing. A hint of pepper. Interesting but I actually liked the gin barrel Viking metal version better, which isn't usual for me. Tap at Sovereign.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 May 2019
at 01:13
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle at home had the original batch back in day nice to revisit this is batch 6. Cloudy yellow big puffy head. Nose is smoky and light citrus. Tastes of smoked wood in nice non-hammy way, yogurt, lemon, barnyard, sage. Nice end to long weekend.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Feb 2018
at 03:55
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from the brewery: Batch 6: pours hazy light yellow with a white head. Aroma is at first very smokey, but later you get the juniper, light fruitiness. Taste is smokey and sort of lightly sour. Interesting taste. Quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Feb 2018
at 05:29
5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Shared 750ml bottle. Batch 6, November 2017. Pours a pale murky yellow color, with a fizzy white head. Aroma is campfire smoke, juniper, sour fruit, herbs, burnt rubber, medicinal notes. Taste follows nose with lemon, funk, salt, and peat notes. Finish is smoky and sour. Very unique, but I can't get into it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2018
at 20:34
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Rauchig säuerlicher, mild würziger Antrunk. Spritzig, Noten von Kräuter, süffig, etwas bitter, spritzig, vollmundig. Langer säuerlich rauchiger Nachhall. Gut. 10/10/11/11/10/11
Tried
on 25 Nov 2017
at 16:00