Haandbakk
(has 3 batches)
HaandBryggeriet (Norway) in Drammen, Buskerud, Norway 🇳🇴
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular|
Score
7.27
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This is a recreation of a Norwegian style naturally soured ale, aged in oak wine barrels for 18 months for the authentic sour flavour
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, batch 289. Pours a very dark red brown, without any head at all. Aroma is balsamic vinegar, oak and berries. Body is full but with a rather thin texture, and flat to no carbonation. Flavour is sour with brett and sour apples, as well as oak and berries.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Oct 2012
at 12:30
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
Grunerlokka Brygghus, Oslo bottle (144 NOK): Pours dark brown with no head. Aroma is straight up sour ale aroma, with a lot of wood. There is not so much vinegar or wine as there is this vague sourness. Additionally, there is a wee bit of fire and char. Taste is sour, but it isn’t extremely sharp, yet it is in no way lacking in sour character. Some sour ales fall short by not being sufficiently sour, but this jawn is just right. Furthermore, there is a bunch of wood, along with mild roasty notes. There is a whole lot of complexity, and a lot of it is difficult for me to describe. Superlative.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Aug 2012
at 14:08
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
Bottle. Pours a cloudy amber with a medium creamy beige head leaving sticky lacing along the glass. The aroma is sour fruit and raisin malt. Thin mouthfeel with a sour fruit and light raisin malt with light sour finish. Easy to drink a very impressive from haandbryggeriet.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jul 2012
at 01:38
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Has a slightly hazy deep brown colour and nearly no head. Looks like Coca Cola. The aroma is sour and filled with oak, wood, berries, rowanberries and tar. A powerful flavour of wood, wild berries, juniper and some smoke. A slick and sparkly mouthfeel, and light bitterness. This beer is nice and well-balaned, and with a proper touch of malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jul 2012
at 05:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
No head, brown to black beer. Lactic acid, acetic acid, fruity (red fruit), earthy notes. Wood, slighlty roasted, lactic acid, and a tad of acetic. Vinous character. Quite slick, bit oily, certainly not light bodied, despite the acid thinning. Definitely styled on Rodenbakk, sorry, Bach. Alexander, that is, not Johann Sebastian.
Tried
on 06 Apr 2012
at 13:17
8.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
(10/03/2012) Bottle @ ACBF 2012: bordeaux, very dark, almost brown, no head, very tart, lots of cherries, berries & red wine vinegar, taste is very tart cherries, berries, lots of red wine vinegar, brett, strongly vinous, acidic finish but also a slight touch of sweetness to be found here, slight berry jam and even a hint of jam, body is solid sour malts, feels close to flat, lovely vinegary beer ///////// 500 ml. bottle. Early 2015. Wow, way more balanced, less to little vinegar. More restrained wine sourness. Awesome but no new score, didn’t bother with notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2012
at 04:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft @ ACBF 2012, Moen. Cuivrée, pas de mousse. Aigre et fruitée noire, léger malt, ne parait quasi pas 8.5% et ce profile vinaigre ressort bien par les narines et se colle sur la gorge. Le boisé et barrique ressort un peu, mais le tout reste dominé par un profile acétique important qui laisse entrapercevoir qcq fruits. La carbonation est minimale et rajoute à l’expérience.
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Mar 2012
at 05:08
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as HaandBryggeriet Haandbakk (by HaandBryggeriet (Norway)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
3/III/2012 - 50cl bottle @ ACBF (Moen) - BB: n/a (2012-183)
Clear dark brown beer, no head. Aroma: Rodenbach Grand Cru, totally. Also buttermilk, red wine vinegar, tobacco, sweet caramel. MF: no carbon, full body. Taste: pretty sweet start, caramel, sour punch, lemony, pretty bitter too. Aftertaste: very fruity, forest fruits, strawberry jam, woody, tobacco touch, still sweet. It's Rodenbach Grand Cru, but a little fruitier and sweeter, still very good.
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.8/5
3/III/2012 - 50cl bottle @ ACBF (Moen) - BB: n/a (2012-183)
Clear dark brown beer, no head. Aroma: Rodenbach Grand Cru, totally. Also buttermilk, red wine vinegar, tobacco, sweet caramel. MF: no carbon, full body. Taste: pretty sweet start, caramel, sour punch, lemony, pretty bitter too. Aftertaste: very fruity, forest fruits, strawberry jam, woody, tobacco touch, still sweet. It's Rodenbach Grand Cru, but a little fruitier and sweeter, still very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Mar 2012
at 09:08
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle- Frothy off-white good mostly lasting head. Dark red-amber colour. Moderate malty and light hoppy and powerfull sour aroma. Flemish redish. Moderate bitter wonderfull sour flavor. Long moderate bitter finish. Oily palate. Nice flemish red.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Feb 2012
at 06:03