Hazy amber color; big head. The aroma is ordinary, with a light but sharp touch of baking yeast. The taste has some malt, a strong pleasant bitterness, playing with good caramel and toffee. Enjoyable.

Hazy amber color. One of the most interesting Scandinavian påsköl; still simple, but with a light hop aroma, some malt taste, high bitterness, toffee hoppiness.

Bottled. Dark golden colour. Fruity, citrus and malty aroma. The same elements has the flavour. Bitter finish

Huge beige, dense & stable head, fed by lively carbonated unclear, Cola-brown beer. Fruity nose, grapes, raisins & hops. Coloured malts, hints of toffee or other dark caramelised sweets, even some licorice. Quite sweet-smelling, despite the hoparoma. Very bitter beer with an overwhelming non-sweet licorice flavour. Resiny notes, walnut peel, pine, hopoil. Chocolate cake wants to come through, but is prevented by the harsh, unsubtle bitterness. Quite full bodied; very carbonated, oily-slick. Rigourously unsubtle. I prefer Nøgne Ø’s lighter beers, showing way more balance. Thanks very much all the same, MartinE.

Pale orange-ochre beer with slight haze; yellow-orange tinted small head. End of bottle fully opaque and UFO-ridden. Hops (noble -) - and ivy. Several mild green herbs (laurel, savory, etc.) Bit of sulphur too. Sulphury & grapey hops, quite dry. Just a hint at sweetness, hay and white bread. Finishes again with full hopflavour and resin. Rather light body, slight slickness, not empty nor watery. Nice hoppy pale ale; nothing spectacular, but easy drinkable, pleasing. Big thanks, Martin E.

Bottled on 2/21/06 and consumed on 4/23/06
Large, moderately-dense off-white to slight beige colored head is moderately well retained. Little to no lacing though, and even though settled and carefully poured, it is still lightly hazy. But the softest, warmest, summer sunrise of peaches, pinks, creams, roses and straws all blended about. Not enough retention or lacing, but a beautiful color. Furthermore, I don’t buy taking off 2 points because this saison dosent have huge lacing or retention. It takes nothing away from the beer, in my opinion, just excess non-filtration (so I’ll add a point to overall).
Nose is spicy, in appropriate levels, with coriander, ginger and what I take as light hallertauers, though what the brewer says are crystal hops. In retrospect, they are more dry, somewhat more acidicly so, and less juicy (and sorely inferior to hallertauer). But clean, fluffy yeast, sugary white doughiness and light orange fruit esters (nectarines, peaches, apricots) really build the complexity. The end has some light astringency problems. Some dry, bitter, sharp pepper-like notes, perhaps heavy white pepper and coriander mixing with dry crystal hops, but whatever it is, it jabs at the palate, as the honey-like malts recede. Low carbonation, but mostly tight. Yes, there does seem to be acidity lying heavily on end. Aroma is mostly saved from it, though, staying flowery, lightly dusty and just elegantly yeasty.
With further breathing the pils malt stays strong at the start, though the astringency still comes on the end, strongest right on the very tip of the tongue. Not watery, but could be confused for that due to the slick, oily-creamy texture and lower carbonation relative to the style. No alcohol noted, lovely attenuation, certainly much more dry than it is not. Replace the crystal hop with hallertauer or Styrian Golding and this could go somewhere. No death-by-ginger, thank god. Massive thanks to Engelsmann for a damn fine trade!