6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Batch number 60
Black color; beige, big but fizzy head. Strange aroma mixing light feelings of malt, caramel, roasted malt, cardboard, grass, manure. The mouthfeel is quite dry, with medium strength; there is a lot of roasted malt, caramel and liquorice flavor. The final as well could not be else than bitter with roasted malt and liquorice. Not the top of the list.
Black color; beige, big but fizzy head. Strange aroma mixing light feelings of malt, caramel, roasted malt, cardboard, grass, manure. The mouthfeel is quite dry, with medium strength; there is a lot of roasted malt, caramel and liquorice flavor. The final as well could not be else than bitter with roasted malt and liquorice. Not the top of the list.
Tried
on 28 Jul 2007
at 16:33
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
(Bottle 50 cl) Pours completely opaque black with a small, beige head. Roasted aroma with some licorice. Medium body, soft and rather flat mouthfeel. Dominated by roasted malt accents, almost creamy smooth with touches of both licorice and coffee. Dry with some bitterness. Quite an intense and concentrated flavour pattern for a beer of this modest strength. 200707
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2007
at 08:36
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Great score! Jackson wrote about this type of brew ages ago and I don’t think I’ve ever tried one. Slightly hazy dark amber. Smokey, slightly yeasty aroma with lots of woody, earthy nuance. Quite spritzy...seems the carbonation has gotten away from them...so as the smokey flavours unfold the body thins out and the malts dissipate from the palate in a wave of bubbles. After that point, it’s all over. There’s some fruit, a rich yeastiness (too rich, evidently) some burned fruit and heavy wood.
Tried
on 22 Jul 2007
at 18:31
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle, 6%. Batch#46. Slow gusher, not chilled, but at cellar temperature. Nicely fruity aroma, some dried fruit and some yeast. Dark and muddy red/brown colour. Frothy light brown head, semi-stable. The flavour is quite roasted, turns nicely sweet and then roasted again. A little yeast to the flavour, but fortunately not as much as the aroma. High carbonation, a bit too much.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2007
at 08:39
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Smallish offwhite head. Slightly hazy brownish red body with some carbonation. Strong tropical fruity hop aroma with chocolatey, roasty malty background. Sharpish dry fruity hop taste with the same roasty malt background. Body is a bit thin and watery, perhaps unavoidable with only 4.5% alcohol, but leaves the hops a bit high and dry--that is, unbalanced. Dry, smoky burnt malt aftertaste. Very nice! One of the best beers you can buy in Norwegian shops (outside the wine monopoly). (0.5l bottle from Ica Gourmet, Aker Brygge, Oslo. Batch #99, oct ’07. Previous rating, of an infected bottle from batch #67, came out at 2.0.)
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jul 2007
at 14:18
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Black with a big and lasting light brown head. Aroma is fruity, floral, licorice, chocolate. Roast malty dry with a very unique flavour that I could easily imagine coming from wheat. tart and very black aftertaste.
Tried
on 11 Jul 2007
at 07:56
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Dark copper with a big and firm slightly off-white head. Wood and smoke dominates the aroma, which also has a bit of dark fruit and caramel. I get some juniper after swirling a few times. Dry and bitter flavour with the juniper delivering a gin-like tinge. All in all it’s a very good beer and a traditional ale of the kind that makes you believe in the good stories of old tradition. The smoke and juniper makes it a bit heavy to drink though, so don’t buy a sixpack for Saturday night...
Tried
on 06 Jul 2007
at 12:43
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottled. (batch 28). Hazy orange colour, white head. Aroma is spices, yeast and some fruits. Flavour is sweet fruits with a lot of yeast. Not very exciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2007
at 01:55
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottled. Muddy dark yellow. Orangey nose. Fairly sweet and medium bodied with rounded, perhaps a bit hard and plastic, mouthfeel. Fruity melon flavour. Some hops show towards a drying finish, but it stays rather neutral.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jul 2007
at 09:45
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottled batch nr 28 (brygget 03/2006)
Hazy orange color, not much head. Sourish, a fruity (grapes), mainly yeasty nose. Yeast, orange, mango and alcohol in the flavor. Quite dry nutty flavor. Some underlying caramelly notes. Easter beer yes, but nothing special, kind of lame.
Hazy orange color, not much head. Sourish, a fruity (grapes), mainly yeasty nose. Yeast, orange, mango and alcohol in the flavor. Quite dry nutty flavor. Some underlying caramelly notes. Easter beer yes, but nothing special, kind of lame.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2007
at 15:48