Big yellowish head. Hazy dark red brownish body. Smoky juniper aroma, very harmonic and strong, with mint notes. Taste is the same smoky juniper, quite sharp and refreshing. Some roasty, chocolatey notes in the background. Dry, smoky aftertaste with long, lingering smoke taste. An excellent beer! Strong character, very original, highly drinkable. The smoke and juniper combination is a real winner. (0.5l bottle at Pingvinen.)

Beautiful hazy amber color with red shades; creamy head. Peculiar aroma, that can be found sometimes in the Nordic, a bit perfumy, grassy, or flowers from a grassfield…. The flavor is also a bit original; it’s has an elegant malt line, with a flower touch, maybe honey. Correct bitterness. Right.

Bottle at Chris_O bottlefest 2007. Very dark ruby with tan head. Exploded out of the bottle. Not sure what this is. A porter? Dark malts. Bit like a dunkel. some nice dark malts.

500ml bottle. Hazy red/brown body with a nice beige head. Aroma of malt, yeast, citrus and hops. Flavor is rather sweet malty with fruit, citrus and a quite bitter finish. Very harmonic and tasteful with a long and pleasant aftertaste. (Mr. Smith really sucks!)

Bottle. Black colour with a light brown head. Aroma is coffe, roasted, malt. Flavour is coffee, roasted, smoked, fruit, sweet, hop. Light bitter and coffee finish. Pleasent and nice beer.

Bottle. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is dry, juniper, hop, caramel. Flavour is hop, caramel, fruit, dry, juniper, roasted Light bitter finish. Pleasent beer.

Bottle, 6.0%. Batch#23. Fresh-ground coffee and chocolate aroma. Black colour, seemingly hazy. Small light brown head. The flavour is quite roasted with some malt bitterness and creamy notes. It finishes a little yeasty. Medium mouthfeel. Nicely flavourful and quite drinkable.

Bottled. A deep brown beer with a medium tan head leaving some nice lacings. The aroma has a certain wood-note that I first suspected to come from the Norwegian Wood I tasted at the same time, but I didn’t find that to be the answer. It has roasted and burnt malt, some chocolate and vanilla as well. I found the woody notes in the flavor as well, followed by a heavy roasted flavor, vanilla and bittering hops. Full-bodied beer with a long bitter finish with both hop-bitterness and chocolate-bitterness. Some alcohol as well. A well-composed beer from Haandbryggeriet. Rating: 7-4-8-4-15-3.8. 070317

On tap at Olympen. It pours a black body under a minimal-sized tan head. Licorice and molasses starts the aroma ball, followed by burnt malts, hints of dried fruits and some alcohol in the far back. Dryish, yet sweetish mouthfeel, warming and full-bodied. The flavor has quite a lot of molasses and licorice, but also the burnt malts found in the aroma. Alcohol and bitterness chimes in towards the end. Mostly of the burnt kind, the bitterness. Overall, a fine beer indeed, but more emphasized on the burnt flavors than I prefer. A beer I return to every now and then anyway. 091113

500 ml bottle. Slightly hazy red-brown body with a decent beige head. The aroma is extremely complex, starting with juniper and wood, light roasted malt with a discreet touch of smoke and yeast. The smoke is more present in the flavor, together with juniper, bitter fruit (maybe juniper berry?), yeast, roasted malt and some bitterness. The very pleasant juniper taste remains in the finish.