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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
A clear red-brown beer with a small disappearing orange head. The aroma is roasted with notes of chocolate. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of oranges and a dry hoppy end, the carbonization prickles the tongue, but the body is thin.
Tried
on 05 Sep 2004
at 17:49
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Reddish-brown colour. Toasty, slightly toffeeish aroma. Light toffee palate with date-like accents. Hints of orange. Sweetish, but rather light, finish.
Tried
on 11 Aug 2004
at 06:42
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottled. Nut brown, small head. Dry and roasty. Fairly light bodied. Lightly salty with fairly low bitterness. A well balanced beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2004
at 03:51
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Original rating Christmas 2003: (500 ml bottle). The Nøgne Ø micro brewery is in a class of its own (at least by Norwegian standards), so this beer is by far the best Norwegian "klasse D" (= grocery store market) Christmas/Yule beer you can get (all others are Vienna lagers). Deep copper colour, moderate head. Malty, oaky and toffee aroma with hints of spices. Malty flavour balanced by a decent bitterness. Rerate Christmas 2004: Colour seems even darker this year, plenty of yeast floaties. Flavour is maybe a tad spicier, well balanced hops. Impressively tasty for a Yule beer with a meagre ABV of 4.5%. Rerate 2005: Very dark colour this year, deep reddish brown, hazy, nearly black. Lovely roasty aroma with notes of coffee, oak and caramel. Distinctly roasty flavour with notes of coffee, burnt toast and English liquorice. Brewed with Chinook, Cascade and Columbus hops, 25 IBU, 11 degr. Plato.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2003
at 12:44