Draught @ Whats Brewing - Friday Session 1, Stavanger
Pours hazy amber with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel, herbal, floral and juniper. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long malty, caramel, floral and juniper finish. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Earlier Rating: 11/11/2014 Total Score: 3.4
Growler 2L @ What’s Brewing 2014, Stavanger
Pours hazy copper with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, yeast, some funk, floral and juniper. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long slightly funky, floral and yeasty finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

On tap at Cardinal Pub & Bar; Stavanger. Brewed with "einerlåg" (brewing liquor boiled with juniper twigs) and "kveik" (Norwegian farmhouse yeast). Orange-brownish colour, minimal white head. Pleasant aroma of juniper and fruit. Soft mouthfeel. Juniper and fruits / berries in the flavour too. Pleasant to drink.

On tap at What’s Brewing Beer Festival 2015, Stavanger. Pours hazy amber with big off-white head. Aroma of plums, raspberries, raisins, smoked malt. Some sweetness, but well balanced. Alcoholic warmth, medium bodied. Smooth mouth feel.
Earlier Rating: 11/2/2014 Total Score: 1.8
Sampled from bottle at What’s Brewing beer festival 2014, Stavanger. Pours light brown, cloudy. Aroma of juniper. Sweet. A bit fusty/muggy. Thin bodied, almost watery. Wood, resin, tastes a bit like bad homebrew -- glad that the sample was only 0.1 l -- could not drink much more of this.

From tap at ØST Stavanger 20.10.15. Almost clear orange. Dense beige head and lacing. Aroma of pale malt, sour berries of the forest and a hint of brett. Taste of berries, caramel, malt, weeds and a hint of sherry. Interesting

Bergen Ølfestival 2014. Deep golden colour with a white head. Aroma is juniper, malt, flower. Flavour is sweet, juniper, flower, herbs, grain. Weird beer.

On tap at Bergen Ølfestival. It’s an unclear, dark golden beer with a small, white head. The aroma is faintly sourish, quite fruity, with some canned peaches and a touch of yeast. Almost like bakers yeast, but in a strange, pleasant way. It’s sweet on the palate, fruity and almost butterscotchy, with some honey and flowers. Low on carbonation, very soft on the palate. In a strange way it feels sweet, but it’s not that at all. Sure an unusual one, nice and easy drinkable. My first or second encounter with beer brewed with kveik, the old-fashioned yeast used by farmers in some remote areas of Norway, and I liked it. Quite fun that I was going to have another kveik beer, this time from Kinn, in less than an hour. 140905

Duft av frukt og krydder. Dunkel gulbrun farge. Tynn hinne skum, ring langs kant. Frisk fruktig smak som sitter.

On tap @ Bergen Ølfestival. Pours hazy golden with a small creamy head. Aroma is roasted malts with notes of wood and grain, as well as notes of Creamy body with almost no carbonation. Flavour is sweet with grainy malts, bread and wood, as well as some yeasty sweetness.

Info: Since there’s no commercial description and previous reviewer is confused, some info on the beer first. This is a traditional Norwegian farmhouse ale, in the style common in Voss. It’s brewed in copper cauldrons over open fire, with a long mash and a long boil, as is traditional. It’s fermented with yeast from a local home brewer. There’s also two Norwegian hops in there, as well as French Strisselspalt, but the fruit character is from the yeast. Juniper infusion is also used instead of water, as per tradition.

My rating: No head, just a coarse fringe. Hazy opaque orange body. Fruity mealy wild berries aroma with juniper notes. (That was the best I could make out. I was sitting next to a barbecue.) Sweet mealy orangey herbal taste with strawy notes. Mid-bodied. Mild, mealy mouthfeel, flat. Dry-sweet, somewhat astringent, fruity lingonberry and juniper aftertaste with minty herbal orangey notes. Clean, fresh, and drinkable. Possibly a little too sweet, but still something I could drink lots and lots of. (0.3l draft at Grünerløkka Mikrobryggfestival.)

Notes from second tasting: Pale, brownish, muddy body. Sweetish. Juniper, wild berries. Is the fruit character fading? Spicy, mealy. Still maybe a bit thin, but very soft. Low carbonation makes it very drinkable. Orangey character is there. Lingonberry. Bitterness mostly absent.