Draft. A hazy golden beer with a lazing white head. The aroma has notes of fruits, straw, and malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, lemons, and peaches, leading to a dry finish.

Bottle 330ml @ Nødingen, Nøgne Ø
Pours hazy golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, smoke, grain and forest. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long smoked, grainy and forest finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.

Backlog

Voici une bière traditionnelle de la norvège....que je décrirai comme...fumé.... Et autant dire que sur le fumé, c'est violent. Ils sont raides ces norvégiens. Dommage car la structure sous-jacente est bien équilibrée voire agréable. En verre si le blond est trouble (EBU de 14), la mousse blanche est crémeuse et abondante (3 cm environ). Le fumé vous prend dès le nez. C'est d'ailleurs un mélange entre fumé et fermier qui se présente à vous. Et la pensée du moment est alors...j'espère que la dégustation ne va pas être de la même facture... Pas de chance! C'est bien le cas. L'attaque est cependant bien équilibrée entre malt et houblon, douce avec des arômes fruités d'agrumes, de pomme et de poire. C'est à partir de la seconde bouche que le fumé (et ces petites notes fermières) s'installe pour être dominant dès la troisième pour un final linéaire, mais sur une bonne longueur. L'arrière bouche quant à elle, sur le fruit et l'amertume a peu d'ampleur. Bel équilibre sinon entre le sucre, l’amertume (25 d’IBU) et l’alcool (6% Abv). Bière étrange. Mais finalement peut être pas à tester.

On tap at Tapp & Kork, Molde. Hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma of light smoke, some spices and malt. The same in the taste. Fairly soft.

Draught at BeerGeek Bar. Almost clear, straw colored. AROMA- peated smoke, hay, herbs, apple. FLAVOR- very clean, slightly sweet, the same as aroma. Medium bodied.
Delicate one.

Pours a slightly hazy dark golden, with a big fluffy head that shows excellent retention and nice lacing. A bit darker and murky on second pour. Aroma has a light hay base, honey, estery fruitiness (though i couldn't tell exactly what fruitiness) and a smoked hint. Average intensity. Taste notes follow the aroma closely, while also showing a slight herbal/balsamic feel which i guess should be juniper. High sweetness, medium to low bitterness and a sweet finish. Possibly a bit too sweet, though a bit attenuated by the slightest hint of sourness. Medium to light bodied, definitely light for the abv, with medium to light carbonation, goes down very easy. A very 'estery' and quite drinkable/refreshing beer, something in the middle of a saison and a hefeweizen. Nice enough.

8-3-7-4-14
Bottle, five months before bbd. Pours hazy, pale yellow, with an enormous, dense creamy head. Aroma is fruity yeast, with hay, sugar and smokey phenolic notes, as well as spruce, juniper and wood. Creamy body, with average carbonation. Flavour is a strange tart mix of apples, juniper and fruity yeast, as well as white bread, sugar and wooden notes. Dry finish. Pretty strange, can I have another one?

0.33 l bottle from 'Rudat', bottled in August 2017. Almost clear, golden yellow with a large, dense, stable, white head. Slightly sweetish, a little sourish, quite smoky, moderately fruity and a bit floral aroma of orange peel, peat, some juniper and traces of honey. Moderately sweet, slightly bitter, minimally sourish, quite smoky, fruity and a bit floral taste of honey, orange, tangerine, peat, some smoked ham and a touch of juniper, followed by a medium long, moderately bitter, a little tart, fairly smoky and a bit spicy finish. Medium body, slightly creamy and quite effervescent mouthfeel, average carbonation. A bit all over the place, quite demanding for a beer of that strength, still very drinkable and somehow refreshing. Really interesting and quite good!

330ml bottle, batch nr. 1860, bought at Vinmonopolet Langnes. Large snow white head, rich lacing, cloudy yellow-gold body. Pleasant aromas of wood, grain, and kveik. Rather rich taste of juniper, kveik and smoked malts. Dry ending, doughy and mid-sweet. Medium bodied. Different and nice. (Tromsø 16.03.2018).