HaandBryggeriet (Norway)
Microbrewery
in
Drammen,
Buskerud,
Norway 🇳🇴
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 2005
Contact
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.
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.
4.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
50 cL bottle@fonefan/Brugmansia’s Cnudde tasting. Pours hazy brown with a lacing off white head. Light fruity and spiced aroma. Flavour is fruity and spiced. Ends light herbal and spiced. Off.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2008
at 13:16
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours deep brown into a shaker. Fluffy tan head tophats the rim. Smoke and spice aromas. Crisp caramel upfront with a smoked gin finish.
Tried
on 27 Mar 2008
at 18:39
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
500ml Bottle-Copper coloured with a bit of a haze which may be the sediment from the bottle or it may be intentional. Peachy, biscuity aroma with a hint of raspberry and a soapy element. Tangy on the tongue at first with a nice initial malty taste which turns pleasantly hoppy. The peach and biscuit again feature in the finish which gets increasingly fruity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Mar 2008
at 06:18
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
I am bored with porters lately but this is a cut above. Oak in the aroma, as well as roasted malt. Some herbal/vegetable character as well as more malt. Fairly dry, and a heavy palate. A world class porter.
Tried
on 22 Mar 2008
at 18:21
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Batch 78. Rich dark brown beer with a huge tan head. Chocolate aroma with light roast. Chocolate, light roast, coffee flavor with enough hops to balance. Medium body. Chocolate, coffee, mocha lingers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Mar 2008
at 18:00
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Påskegodt is funny lookig beer with orange-brown colour and white head. Aroma is spicy and very fruity and maybe there are some hops in the background. Flavour is not so fine than aroma and some biting thing dominates flavour. Anyway there are same fruits and spicyness than is found also in the aroma. Carbonation is quite plentiful and it makes spicyness more notified. Flavour is not so good than aroma but still this it interesting and lively beer. I found same nuancees from Duvel and Gouden Carolus Classic.
Tried
on 14 Mar 2008
at 15:31
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
500ml Bottle- Black in colour with a small tan head. Raisins, malt and coffee in the aroma with a hint of aniseed and alcohol also creeping in. Initially quite tangy and smooth on the tongue, it then becomes rich yet drinkable. Coffee, plain chocolate and raisins in the taste with a noticeable but not overwhleming alcoholic finish in which a coffee taste lingers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2008
at 04:28
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 9
16.9oz bottle. Pours a deep chocolate black with a lively fuzzy head. The price is ruggedly high on these beers in the US, but this is certainly worth trying. Sort of an off aroma reminiscent of Caribbean stouts. The body and mouthfeel on this beer is awesome. Drinkable, while maintaining complexity and alcohol. One of the best Porters out there.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2008
at 22:46
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Unclear dark brown color with a huge, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, burnt, caramel, chocolate, light hoppy, light yeasty, notes of licorice, spicy and light alcohol. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium to light, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft - lively. (230108)
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2008
at 03:21
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. [Batch #44]. Unclear dark brown color with a huge, frothy, excellent lacing, fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, caramel, chocolate, light to moderate yeasty, pepper, spicy. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter, light light acidic, salty, with a long duration and a very complex taste. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft / lively, (champange sound and beer all over the tabel), finish feel is light alcoholic. (230108)
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2008
at 03:18