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Sample thx Grumbo con 2017-07-14 Göteborg AR: roasted malt, honey pastille, brown sugar AP: clear brown, no head F: brown sugar, honey pastiles, dry,

Bottle at Højbjerg tasting, and courtesy of Tim, cheers! Country #165. Pours mid brown with a small off white head. Aroma of malt, bread, caramel and grain. Medium sweetness, light bitterness. Light body, slight oily texture, average carbonation.

Bottle, 8%. Clear brown with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, caramel, toasted, little chocolate and a little nut. Flavour is malt, caramel, toasted, medium sweet, little nut and a little bitter.

Bottle @ Højbjerg tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is brown. Aroma and taste are caramel, nuts, fruits, malt and hops. Light bitter finish.

Bottle shared by sebletitje at RBBWG 2017 in Antwerp, thanks. Brown beer from Niger - a country I wasn’t expecting anything else but pale lager from, honestly speaking. Stable and moussy, pale beige-ish head, clear coppery bronze robe. Aroma of old dried brown bread, lots of unnatural iron, caramel, old toast, straw, dry nut shells. Neutral lager-like onset, sweet and very caramelly maltiness with a toasty bitterish edge, strong metallic ’zing’ throughout, minerally notes, smooth and oily body, some spiciness in the end but probably more from alcohol than from hops, because the finish is on the thin side - which would not have been the case with a bit more generous hopping; metallic feeling persists. I do not think this is a brown ale at all: this is very clearly a ’generic’ (but unusually strong) dark Bock-style lager of a kind more often seen in ’dark’ Africa (though far from common), with nothing more than plain and simple malt fruitiness and a very metallic and one-sided character. Industrial to the bone but compared with the standard pale lagers more commonly produced in African countries, this is admittedly not that bad.