Amager Bryghus World's Best

World's Best

 

Amager Bryghus in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark 🇩🇰

Collab with: Bådin
  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular
Score
6.74
ABV: 11.0% IBU: 20 Ticks: 34
Hulda Ottestad was an enterprising woman. To buy a café as a woman in Norway in the 1920s was a bold and unusual move, but that was exactly what she did. Café Alliance quickly became the posh place to be seen in Harstad in North-western Norway. Desiring to take her already thriving business to the next level, Hulda got in touch with a Danish pastry chef to buy a cake recipe that would add extra fame and fortune to her café. The Danish chef came up with something he called ‘The King’s Cake’ – a sponge cake baked with meringue and almonds and filled with custard and whipped cream. In Hulda’s version it became ‘Kvæfjord Cake’, named after her birth place. Soon its popularity went from a regional delicacy to a nationwide favorite, mostly made for celebrations deserving a little extra. A Norwegian musician even wrote a ‘Hymn to the Kvæfjord Cake’.
In 2002 a Norwegian radio program made a nationwide poll to find their listeners' favorite cake, and with no less than 69% of the votes ‘Kvæfjord Cake’ came in on top. With typical Norwegian modesty the cake with the now long forgotten Danish roots was simply announced to be ‘The World’s Best cake’.
So when we here at Amager Bryghus were contacted by the Bådin brewery from Bodø in North-western Norway – only a solid stone’s throw from Harstad and Kvæfjorden - to do a collaboration beer, it only felt natural to revive this cake in a beer. Sweet friendship in liquid form.
This beer is a collaboration made with Bådin from Bodø, Norway.
 

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7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can. A black beer with a thin brown head. The aroma has notes of coffee, roasted malt, dark chocolate, and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of roasted malt, caramel, dark chocolate, and coffee, leading to a dry finish.

Tried from Can on 19 Sep 2023 at 19:03


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

How: Draught.
Where: MBCC 2023.
Appearance: Black colour with a beige head.
Aroma: Roasted malt, almonds,, chocolate, caramel, fruit, spices.
Body: Medium to full body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Roasted malt, almonds,, chocolate, caramel, fruit, spices.

Tried from Draft on 19 Sep 2023 at 08:44


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can, huge thx HP! Blackish body, beige head. Fantastic aroma, almonds, vanilla, marzipan, raisins, dried cherries, cherry liqueur, wow! Soft taste, caramel, light cocoa, cherry/almond/marzipan, vanilla, just a touch yeasty maybe, and that brings it down a little. I am a sucker for this taste profile, I have to say!

Tried from Can on 30 Aug 2023 at 20:53


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can, 11%. Very dark brown with beige head. Aroma is roasted malt, almond, marzipan, caramel and a little cherry. Flavour is roasted malt, chocolate, cherry, almond, sweet, caramel, cake, vanilla, chocolate and a little bitter.

Tried from Can on 26 Aug 2023 at 22:53


7

Chocolate, candy Comet, orange marmalade, cherry jam, plum jam, sweet, marzipan, Dr.Pepper

Tried from Can on 24 Jun 2023 at 00:13


6

Tugev mandel / martsipan, lääge, röst, linnased, šokolaad, kohv, alks. Ok, väga ekstraktine, aga pole nii hull kui võiks + mulle meeldib martsipan.

Tried from Can on 22 Jun 2023 at 23:43


5.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4

Siste kvelden for denne gang i Dronningens by, og jeg legger turen innom Amagers taproom ved Islands Brygge: brunsvart med fint skum som varer. Smaker overhode ikke som Kvæfjordkake (som jeg forøvrig ikke kan fordra - den er så søt at plombene truer med å løsne). Smaker bare kunstig sødme, mandelessens og vanilje. Gyselig. What's the point?

Tried from Draft on 14 Jun 2023 at 18:14


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen 2023 (MBCC Day 1) - Dark sweet malty, some chocolate, caramel, very sweet and rather unbalanced spices going on for me, full bodied, dark malty finish.

Tried on 05 Jun 2023 at 07:20


7

From backlog. Taster On tap at MBCC 23, Copenhagen. Black with beige head. Roasted malts, Chocolate, marzipan, Nuts, sweetness.

Tried from Draft on 15 May 2023 at 20:59


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tried on 08 May 2023 at 12:03