HaandBryggeriet (Norway)

Microbrewery in Drammen, Buskerud, Norway 🇳🇴
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2005

Contact
Havnegata 13, Drammen, 3040, Norway
Description
The brewery was founded in 2005 by four home brewers who wanted to make high quality beers. In 2016 two of the original founders retired, and the brewery is today owned by a constellation of the two remaining founders, some employees at the brewery and three other Norwegian craft breweries.

Haandbryggeriet currently has 10 employees all participating in developing new ground breaking beers and recipes.

The brewery has a wide selection ranging from classic and traditional beers to new and innovative brews and hybrid beer styles. Sometimes brewed with local and Nordic ingredients such as cherries, sea buckthorn, raspberries, and lingonberries. Haandbryggeriet has since 2005 also made high quality sours and barrel aged beers such as porters and Christmas beers.

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6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Pours hazy golden with a small off-white head. Aroma is tart with notes of malt, vinegar and kiwi. Taste is light to medium sweet and medium to heavy sour with a long tart and vinegar finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft to flat.
Tried on 28 Feb 2026 at 19:41

7.8/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Pours hazy golden with a few off-white bubbles. Aroma is tart with notes of apricot, citrus and hint of vinegar. Taste is light sweet and medium to heavy sour with a long sour apricot tart finish. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft to flat.
Tried on 28 Feb 2026 at 17:10

6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 6 Flavor 5.5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Hazy yellow colour, small white head. Malty, spicey, a bit papery aroma. Medium-bodied. Semi-sweet, spicey, some banana, wheat in the flavour. Mellow but not very interesting triple. Vasa Sessions.
Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2026 at 19:42

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6.5 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Slightly hazy golden colour, small white head. Aroma is floral, nectary and soem fruity tones with mild funk as well. Flavour is fruity, some spicy tones and mild honey tones. Slight earthy elements.
Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2026 at 19:35

7/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Nut brown colour, tiny white head. Smokey, woody aroma. Medium-bodied. Alcohol, smoke, wood and some boozey notes. Very drinkable. Good. Vasa Sessions.
Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2026 at 18:27

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Amber brown colour, some small white head. Aroma is smoked, caramel, wood and some sweet malty tones. Nice one. Flavour is a lovely blend of the same, sweet malts meets a gentle and nice smoky wooden touch with a bit of some toffee. Lovely. Wow.
Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2026 at 18:20

5.6/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 5.5 Texture 5 Overall 5.5
Pale yellow colour, tiny white head. Sour, plasticky grassy aroma. Light-bodied. Easy, some sourness, citrus and light fruits. Vasa Sessions.
Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2026 at 17:26

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 5.5 Texture 5 Overall 5.5
Yellow colour small white head. Aroma is floral, some citrus and some brut tones. Flavour is tart citrus with some mild wooden and herbal tones. Quite one dimensional, and rather boring.
Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2026 at 17:21

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 3 Overall 7
Pleasant and fine NA beer
Hazey pale golden and a fine head.
Ok intensity in the aroma.
Not to sweet and a decent bitterness.
Citric, pale malt, herbal, mild fruity and some pine in the flavor
[Can Skur 4 in Drammen, Norway]
Tried from Can at Skur 4 (Haandbryggeriet) on 22 Feb 2026 at 13:31

8.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 9 Overall 9
Solid smooth brew. Dangerously easy drinkable.
Balanced and a fine complexity
Dark malt, some oak, chocolate and some coffee
[On tap at Skur 4 in Drammen, Norway]
Tried from Draft at Skur 4 (Haandbryggeriet) on 22 Feb 2026 at 13:26