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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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Soft fresh leather aroma. Nice foam on cloudy brown. Flavour is heavy smokiness. Could be fuller on the mouth. Quite nice smoked in fact.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2018
at 20:28
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
0.5 l bottle from 'Sterk Avondverkoop', best before August 2019. Clear, dark reddish amber with a medium large, frothy, almost stable, off-white head. Sweetish-malty, quite smoky, slightly herbal-spicy and a bit fruity aroma of caramel, smoked ham, juniper, honey and some orange peel. Quite sweet, malty, moderately smoky, slightly herbal-spicy and a little fruity taste of caramel, honey, smoked ham, some juniper and traces of orange peel, followed by a medium long, moderately bitter, quite smoky, slightly herbal-spicy and a bit grassy finish. Medium body, slightly effervescent mouthfeel, average to lively carbonation. Well-balanced, unexpectedly refreshing and saturating, just a bit too much effervescence, other than that a pleasant smoked beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2018
at 15:22
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Poured at Shelton Festival, cloudy brown with thick off white head. The aroma is wood, yeast,.smoke. Medium body, similar flavors to nose, light dry finish, good.
Tried
on 30 Dec 2017
at 23:43
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. A- Mild smoke, subtle orange, stale, subtle sulfur, spruce, malty. A- Copper red color, clear liquid, off white head. T- Mild candied orange, subtle bitterness, mild smoke, P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, malty finish. O- Not quite as good as I expect from HaandBrggeriet, although it was almost 3 years old. Not sure how that effected it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Dec 2017
at 13:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 50 cl. Brown, hazy with a creamy offwithe head. Burned malt, Brown sugar and wood. Light bitter with a dry burned malt end.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2017
at 00:02
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
hazy dark amber colour, moderate sized off-white head; aroma of smoked bacon and barley, grains, burnt woody and moderate fruity-floral notes; taste is the same; good one
Tried
on 07 Jul 2017
at 17:05
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Flaske 0,5L smakt januar 2013. Aroma malt, brent tre, røyk. Utseende uklar mørk gylden med offwhite skum. Smak malt, røyk, mørk frukt, krydder. En røykpreget ale
Tried
on 06 May 2017
at 14:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. I guess I’m going off the smoked ales but I prefer this to the heavy malty black smoked beers out there. I am a little dissapainted however, I’m not getting that much juniper or wood, just smoke (but in a good Belgian fashion).
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2017
at 12:48
8/10
Country #42 - Norway 🇳🇴 Real smokey, with bit of bite at the end. Loving this one!
Tried
on 19 Nov 2016
at 23:00
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle pour at Shelton Brothers. Wood-smoked ham and toasted chestnuts on the nose. Clean and crisp on the palate with some juniper berry notes. Smoke is not overdone and sits nicely in the background.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Nov 2016
at 13:03