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5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
500mL bottle, pours a deep dark amber-tinged brown with a medium beige / tan head. Nose is very holiday spicy, with coriander, cardamom, nutmeg and maybe some others I'm missing. Flavour is similarly spicy with a decent malt component providing some body. Very spice-heavy and while not offensive, is not really my kind of beer. No hop or real malt component to subdue any of the spices. Decent for what it is I suppose.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2013
at 22:15
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Pours dark reddish brown, with a nice finger thick creamy head. Very spicy aroma with lots of cloves, chamfer, cardamom, ginger, cinnamon and a citrusy touch of orange peel. Nice full body with soft carbonation. Flavour is sweet with roasted malts, herbs and spices, molasses and kandi. Finishes of with a twist of orange peel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Dec 2012
at 13:21
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
I runde fem på den store juleøltesten ombord på Fridtjofen des-12: i denne runden fremsto den som tynn i smaken, selv om den hadde mye nellik og andre krydder i seg. Nr. tre av tre i denne runden. Flaske hjemme fra batch 362 (brygget 150508): den har så avgjort et preg av gløgg (det var slik det skulle være), men mindre søt og vandigere ettersmak. Ikke blandt mine favoritt-Ø’er, mer "an acquired taste". Virker ikke som den har vunnet noe ved lagring.
Tried
on 11 Dec 2012
at 11:01
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
25/05/2012 Brasserie 4:20 (tap). Bevuta al Nøgne Ø Special Beer Festival. Bruna, riflessi color miele di castagno, schiuma biancastra leggera, poco persistente. Al naso interessante aroma erbaceo, speziato, salvia, mentuccia, con note di malto e luppolo. In bocca ha uno spiccato carattere speziato, erbaceo, amarognolo. Corpo medio, carbonazione corretta. Traditional ale speziata molto interessante.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 May 2012
at 13:46
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml bottle. Clear dark brown with huge stable beige head. Already while pouring a room-filling aroma reminds of bath salt. Extremely spicy, herbal, soapy aroma: cinnamon, ginger, caradamon, coriander, clove, maybe some orange and orange zest. A nice smelling combination, but do I really like to drink something like that? The taste resulting from those ingredients is too soapy for me. Maybe some more sweetness would give a better taste, maybe the result would be a too heavy beer then - I can’t say. Not bad, exceptional but also weird.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2012
at 12:27