Norwegian Wood (-2018)
HaandBryggeriet (Norway) in Drammen, Buskerud, Norway 🇳🇴
Traditional Beer Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.18
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Once, every farm in Norway was required by law to brew its own ale. All of that ale had a natural smoky taste because the malt was kilned by fire, and most of it was spiced with juniper berries. Norwegian Wood, a recreation of that traditional style, is made by the "Hand Brewery" - four guys brewing in their spare time, on an absurdly small scale.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Draught from gingernanhattan. A reDdish brown. Not as oaky as I would have thought. A bit sour I guess it was the juniper.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 00:57
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
a thick woody aroma. lots of burnt woods, and roasted burnt malt. loads of burnt wood flavour, and more burnt malt, this is super malty, and is dominated by wood. interesting, but quite one dimensional.
Tried
on 28 Feb 2025
at 05:07
7.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Boreft Bier Festival 2010, Bodegraven. Dark red brew with an farmlike start, this will fade away. Than its gets an smokey sour/sweet fruity taste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2024
at 11:40
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Woody, smokey aroma with licorice. Flavor has fat bacon, smoke, beechwood. Smoky and hopbitter aftertaste. A huge taste bomb, there is nothing refined and balanced in this beer, but it is certainly a tasty and very interesting one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2019
at 12:07
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle. Pours clear copper amber with a beige head. Aroma: toasted grains, caramel, smoked meat, slightly medicinal. Taste: moderate sweet & bitter, roast malts, raisins, caramel, treacle, herbal, peat smoke. Medium bodied, light carb, lingering bittersweet smokey finish. Interesting!
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2019
at 21:12
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
330 ml bottle, shared by Werckmeister, thanks! Copper-brown, clear body, with a big, creamy, lacing, beige, head. Aroma of smoked wood, bacon, toffee, honey, some bread, some earthy berries. Tastes quite similar, with more dry wood and the smoke even more dominating. Medium, creamy mouthfeel, with a moderate carbonation. Finishes quite dry, smokey, wooden, bitter, subtly sweet, a bit bready, with some earthy berries. Very nice. The nose is really lovely, with the smoke and wood notes well integrated into the sweet body. Taste is a bit too much dominated by the smoke for me, with a dry woodiness towards the finish. The nose gets more prominent as the beer warms up. Really interesting stuff overall. Score: 8 / 4 / 7 / 3 / 15
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jan 2019
at 18:00
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Brown bottle, 500 ml, batch 908, best before 25.09.2017, at L’autre œil, savoured on October 9 2017; eye: coppery, hazy, no effervescence, thin sheet of beige head, slight lacing; nose: smoke, meaty, malt, slight medicinal, caramel; mouth: smoke, meaty, malt, slight medicinal, caramel, meaty finale with medicinal presence, medium body, below-average carbonation, slick texture; overall: fine
FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 500 ml, lot 908, meilleure avant 25.09.2017, bue à L’autre œil, savourée le 9 octobre 2017; œil : cuivrée, trouble, pas d’effervescence, mince couverture de mousse beige, très légère dentelle; nez : fumé, viandeux, malt, très léger médicinal, caramel; bouche : fumé, viandeux, malt, très léger médicinal, caramel, finale viandeuse avec présence médicinale, corps moyen, carbonatation sous la moyenne, texture coulante; en résumé : bien
FRANÇAIS
Bouteille brune, 500 ml, lot 908, meilleure avant 25.09.2017, bue à L’autre œil, savourée le 9 octobre 2017; œil : cuivrée, trouble, pas d’effervescence, mince couverture de mousse beige, très légère dentelle; nez : fumé, viandeux, malt, très léger médicinal, caramel; bouche : fumé, viandeux, malt, très léger médicinal, caramel, finale viandeuse avec présence médicinale, corps moyen, carbonatation sous la moyenne, texture coulante; en résumé : bien
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2018
at 22:41
8/10
Backlog
Tried
on 04 Sep 2018
at 14:22
5/10
From backlog. 0,5 litre Bottle, gift from a friend. Dark Golden with offwhite head. Roasted malts, hops and smoke.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Aug 2018
at 21:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at St Albans beer shop, St Albans, Herts. A hazy orange/amber coloured pour with a medium off white head on top. Smokey, caramel aroma. Tastes, smokey, caramel, some treacle maybe.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Aug 2018
at 09:16