Shared bottle at Cardinal, Stavanger. Pours hazy light amber with little off-white head. Aroma of pine needles, citrus, light bread, some tropical fruits. Tastes bitter with some sweetness. Bitter finish, dry mouth feel.

330 ml bottle. Clear golden body with a huge, fluffy off-white head. Aroma is malty, mild toffee, some citric fruit and slightly spicy. Flavor has mild light, hint of caramel, not strog but nice fruit flavor, slightly spicy and moderate bitterness. Medium body and decent aftertaste with a certain bitterness. Not very exiting but decent session ale that shouldn’t offends anyone.

From a 33 cl bottle bought online somewhere. Apparently this brewery tries to link ancient beer history with the modern craft beer movement by accentuating the piney qualities of certain (US, UK or NZ, according to the label) hops with actual conifer sprouts. Loose, coarse, bubbly, off-white head with good edge retention, hazy peach blonde colour with greenish hue. Pleasant aroma of pine needles indeed, cedar wood (cigar boxes), biscuit, marmelade, some hemp dankness, fermenting hay, bitter honey, dried chamomille (strongly), gari, green olive, old gingerbread, lemon zest, dry apple cake, cinnamon, sweet white grape, unripe starfruit. Fruity onset with hints of green banana, unripe pineapple, slight Conférence pear and yellow plum, very soft carbo - in fact, too soft for the style, bordering on flat (unsurprisingly seen the lack of head). Slick caramelly malt sweetishness, bit grainy, supporting this combo of very restrainedly sweetish fruits and leading them to a hoppy finish, with a long resinous but still gentle bittering quality to it as well as retronasal floral, citrus peel and tropical flower aromas being challenged by an indeed emphatic presence of spruce or pine ’resinousness’, as if you are pouring down an IPA matured in cedar wood cigar boxes, but still softly so. I had more cedar- or pine needle-like beers like this (one example from Jester King springs to mind) but I have to admit that in this case, this fragrant pine wood factor has been well integrated and is married nicely with the piney qualities of the hops, though these hops are certainly not the main player here. Juicy malt sweetness remains with a resinous hoppy edge, but the bitterness remains gentle, though efficiently drying. Session IPAs have been the new craze in recent years and just when I thought they have peaked, I encounter this unusual interpretation of it - proving this modern craft beer substyle still has a lot to offer. Very pleasant in aroma and taste, just too bad for the lack of carbonation!

(Draught at In De Wildeman, Amsterdam, 20 Feb 2016) Pale amber colour with frothy, white head. Fruity, hoppy nose with notes of apricots, orange, grapefruit and grainy malt. Malty, hoppy taste with grain, orange, grapefruit, pine needles and a generous, fresh, citric bitterness in the finish. Medium body, quite dry. Tasty, well made and highly drinkable ale with a fresh hop profile. Nice one

Flaske 330ml fra Gulating Larvik. Delt med Håvard I Tyrihansveien 18 Jan 15. Aprikosfarget. Høyt luftig skum med kremkonsistens I midten. Lett uklar. Aroma av tørket frukt. Smaken ubestemmelig. Ukjent frukt som ikke var min smak.

Tåkete lys brun med to fingre høyt hvitt skum. Lukter epler, grapefrukt og korn. Smaker syrligbittert, mot besk. Druestein og sitrusskall. Avslutningen sitter.

Bottle at home. Pours hazy orange, nose is citrus, floral, pine, taste is sweet fruit, quite dry and b

A hazed golden ipa with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet fruity caramel malt with resinous floral hops, light sulfur notes and some light spoiled eggs. In mouth, a sweet fruity caramel malt with light honey and herbaceous floral hops, light clovers, treacle, nice. Bottle from LCBO, 6 months past its Bb date.

Fairly perfumy, moderately aggressive bitterness, decent English malt and I assume us hops. Quaffable but a bit too sharp for my liking.

On tap @Mad for Beer (Rome). Pours a golden color with a medium white head. Aroma is malty with diacetyl, citrus, lemon notes and spruce. Flavour has a medium malt profile with a good bitter end. Light body, strong carbonation. Mediocre.