initially a solid deep hoppy and deep malty aroma, sold conventional US hops dominate and they're full bodied and juicy. the malts are solid and into barley wine territory too both are balanced yielding a very intense aroma like what you might find in an imperial red ale - actually this one is 8% so that is more or less into the imperial category. aroma could also be from a well balanced hoppy barleywine. great stuff. Finer notes of dried dark fruits and flowers but nearly all aroma is driven by malty and hoppy notes.
flavor is along the lines of imperial hoppy brown ale, hoppy barleywine - a very solid malty base that is sweet nutty, rounded by very aromatic us hops, the hops flavor though is a lot less intensive than the aroma so malts win hands down here, having hops only accentuate the experience. finer fruity notes into the end but mostly just malts. alc. is well hidden but can be felt in a good way as making the body more solid. also faint notes of wood or barrelling or perhaps wood chips soaked in booze used. texture is not at all watery. Totally a real treat if you feel like barley wine or imperial brown ale. balanced , tasty, complex, great sipper.

Amber colour with medium white head.Aroma is spicy and toasted with nice flavour of caramel and tobacco mild berries and malt, smooth and well balanced finish nice by style.

Bottle from HavnensVinOgTobakhus. Pours cloudy dark amber with large offwhite head. Aroma is malt, caramel, grain, biscuit, spruce, and grapefruit. Taste is medium to very sweet, light to medium bitter and light acidic. Body is creamy with soft carbonation. Finish is long and balanced sweet and bitter with notes of malt, grain, caramel, biscuit, brown sugar, spruce, grapefruit, orange and hints of anise.

Tap SKAAL.
Hazy cooper, low head.
Pine needle and rosehip notes, citric hoop on a mellow chewy juicy malt base. Xmas tree retronasal. Nice.

Sample (thanks omhper!). Amber colour, small white head. Aroma is fruity, caramelly and some toffeeish tones. Flavour is fruity, caramelly, toffeeish and mild alcohol tones.

--Bottled, from the brewery. -- Clear reddish copper colour, firm mid sized head. Citrusy nose with some caramel. Mid sweet with full body and well rounded mouthfeel. Caramel and soft grapefruity hops. Warming mid bitter finish.

Red amber with a lasting off-white head. Aroma of orange, tangerine, caramel and biscuit. Sweet malty flavour with good citrus balance.

Bottle, courtesy of MiP. Pours hazy copper brown with stable big off-white head. Clear aroma of fruit and citrus, with notes of yeast and malt and mild touches of caramel. Bitter, hoppy and citric flavour with sweet notes of caramel malt and yeast and touches of nuts. Grassy and citric aftertaste with malty and estery touches. Warming alcohol presence. Not bad for the style but not clean, I'm afaraid..

Bottle,. Citric and acetic aroma. Almost clear copper/chestnut colour with a very, very big head. The flavour is quite citric with a funky, acetic finish. Citric and malty aftertaste. Does not seem clean.

Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Dark amber colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Heavy bitter flavor. Long heavy bitter finish. Creamy palate.