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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5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Pours a dark brown color with a big but fast disappearing creamy tan head. Sweet malty caramel aroma with some hints of licorice and yeast. Thick malty flavor with licorice and yeast, also hints of alcohol and dark fruits. Long warming sweet malty finish and some bitterness in the aftertaste.

Tried from Bottle on 04 Mar 2007 at 10:48


7.8
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Black with a lasting brown head. Rich and complex aroma of dates, grain, molasses, leather and some alcohol. Fruity sweet flavour with a dry finish. Big and soft mouthfeel. Excellent winter beer.

Tried on 02 Feb 2007 at 16:39


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Creamy lightbrown excellent mostly lasting head. Amberbrown colour. Moderate malty and heavy hoppy aroma. Powerfull bitter flavor. Chocolate notes. Long finish. Oily palate. Really good beer.

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2007 at 04:11


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Nice big tan head with excellent duration. Color is dark ruby. Aroma is good with roast malt and spices. Taste is roast malt and some chocolate. Nice oily palate.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Jan 2007 at 15:11


6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is caramel, hop, fruit. Flavour is roasted, dry, caramel, hop, fruit, yeast. Bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Jan 2007 at 01:36


5.2
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Boyttle. Thanks too Yngwie. Frothy lightbrown excellent fully deminishing head. Clody ugly brown colour. Moderate malty almost no yeasty aroma. Nice powerfull bitter flavor. Oily palate but way too fizzy. This beer was not crafsmanship.

Tried on 22 Jan 2007 at 04:46


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

500ml bottle. Dark brown body with thick creamy beige head. Aroma of dry fruits, roasted malt and spices. Flavor is warming, sweet (malt, molasses) candy sugar and a hint of licorices. A bit over carbonated – fizzy palate. Aftertaste is relatively bitter and slightly roasted. Despite of many difference flavors this beer turns out a bit one dimensional. Don’t get me wrong, this is a great beer, but one bottle may be just to much for me at one time.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Dec 2006 at 16:03


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

(50 cl bottle thanks to KnutAlbert) Smell is dark metal, smoke and rubber, roasted malt. Dark redbrown color, huge lasting creamy head. Strong spritzy mouthfeel. Burnt, smoke, tar taste, long burnt and rubber aftertaste. Medium bitterness.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Dec 2006 at 16:39


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Hazy dark copper with a big (yeah, my bottle is overcarbonated too) off-white head. You can pick up some caramel malt, but it’s dominated by burned plastic sulphur aroma. Dry roast malt flavour with a bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2006 at 14:53


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

(Bottle 50 cl) Slightly hazy orangey brown with a beige head. Lightly burned aroma. Medium body with notes of burned plastic and burned malt. A rather bitter finish, but the burned plastic tang reappears. Overly carbonated. 091206

Tried from Bottle on 12 Dec 2006 at 14:41