Moonlit Nights (Cellar Series)
Põhjala in Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia 🇪🇪
Strong Ale - American Regular|
Score
7.22
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A rich and malty strong ale brewed with salted caramel and aged in oak barrels for 15 months.
Taste: The flavor is very rich and intense. The lush taste blends chocolate and plums with vanilla-like spiciness. While the beginning is more fruity and juicy, the aftertaste becomes more liqueur-like, with hints of nuts, raisins, and a light roastiness. The finish leaves a pleasant warmth of alcohol.
Appearance: A dark brown beer with a slight reddish tint and a smaller side beige head. Swirling the beer creates a dense lace pattern on the glass walls.
Nose: The initial aroma is lightly smoky, plummy, and reminiscent of port. The scent is unusually fruity for a dark beer—dominated by plum, with hints of raisins and vanilla notes from oak barrels. Upon further exploration, you can detect various spices and dried fruits.
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Stuu (34525) reviewed Moonlit Nights (Cellar Series) from Põhjala 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is chocolate, caramel, toffee, vanilla, some fruit, taste is similar, sweet, chewy.4
TBone (30139) reviewed Moonlit Nights (Cellar Series) from Põhjala 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
330ml. Opaque colour and small brownish head. Boozy rye malty kind of nose. Medium-bodied. Toffee, toasted malts, oak, some alcohol but hides abv quite well. A bit simple, sweetish.
Gurthnar (14451) reviewed Moonlit Nights (Cellar Series) from Põhjala 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
24.1.2025. Tap at BeerGeek. Med-full body, low carbo. Med-high booziness, woody, bourbony, vanilla, coconut. Also lots of dried fruits. Medium bitterness, med-light sweetness. Quite tasty, very nice sipper. Very good. 7,6.
15.11.2025. Bottle at Pivni kult. Med body, med carbo. Pretty assertive warmth, a bit boozy even. Lots of toffee, pale chocolate, cocoa. Med-high dried fruits, light dark fruits. Finishes quite boozy though, sharp alcohol. Good but not great. 7,2.
Marko (22181) reviewed Moonlit Nights (Cellar Series) from Põhjala 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at Beergeek Bar. Very dark brown, almost pitch black body with no head. Cocoa notes, some dusty oxidation, raisins and alcohol in the aroma. The taste, however, is a pleasant surprise. Lean, dry, smooth, raisins, maybe some cocoa, and, most importantly, almost without alcohol, very, very drinkable, deceptively so! Wow!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Olmost black with small dark off white head - Dark malt aroma with some wood barrel notes - Dark malt body with wood barrel flavours with some chocolate and coffee notes - Malt flavours and wood barrel goes into the finish - This was good
WingmanWillis (38284) ticked Moonlit Nights (Cellar Series) from Põhjala 1 year ago
sparta (4868) reviewed Moonlit Nights (Cellar Series) from Põhjala 1 year ago
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 12
Õlle on selline jook, et iga uus kord kui klaasi või pudeli suule tõstad, siis leiad midagi uut, sõltuvalt tuhandest-miljonist pisiasjast, mis hetke olukorda mõjutavad. Seega piirdun iga õlle juures selle tekstiga.
RuneBlix (26316) reviewed Moonlit Nights (Cellar Series) from Põhjala 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
330ml bottle as Põhjala Julenetter. Thanks to Finn for sharing. Almost black in the glass, low fawn-coloured head, scattered lacing. Inviting oaky aromas with caramel malts. Solid taste of nutty caramel, lightly salted chocolate, and oak. Dark chocolate-caramel finish, smoothly roasted warming down the swallow. Fine depth. Yuletide feel. (Tromsø, 06.12.2024).
Finn (18112) reviewed Moonlit Nights (Cellar Series) from Põhjala 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Delt med Rune på Vervet. Svart. Mokkafarget skumring. Eikearoma. Silkemyk munnfølelse. Smaken karamell. Litt sprudlende på tunga. Lett alkoholisk tørr avslutning.
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Moonlit Nights (Cellar Series) from Põhjala 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Panda at home, thanks to Kenneth, 01/12/24. Extremely dark mahogany brown veering towards black and topped with a khaki cap that thins in time. Nose is fruit cake mix, booze, chocolate shavings, molasses, toffee fudge, barrel tones. Taste comprises ripe dark fruit rinds, brown sugar melt, honeycomb, barrel tones, spice, dark malts, salted caramel nip, figs, dates. Full bodied, light oily feel carbonation, semi drying close with a balanced rising boost. Solid big and ballsy Stronge!