Nice refreshing ipa
Pleasant bitterness and semi dry
Malty, fruity, pine and citric/grapefruit hoppy
[Can from Vinmonopolet at Oslo City in Oslo, Norway]

LCI

330ml can. Pours a bright orange with a white foamy head. Aromas & tastes of mango, peach, orange, hints of caramel, citrus zest, lemon, pine needles & biscuit malt. Medium body. Dry moderate bitter finish.

Farmhouse ale the Norwegian way, so fermented with kveik yeast (the well-known Voss strain) and flavoured with juniper; I think this brewery, and all the consumers who are into this kind of historical (or sometimes pseudo-historical) Scandinavian ales today, ought to honour the great Lars Marius Garshol, who practically single-handedly unveiled the ancient mysteries of a bunch of northern traditions that were, at first, all but forgotten in the present-day international beer world. Thanks to Hinke for this one! Thick and foamy, egg-white, regular, stable, very densely creamy head (almost looking like a 'nitro head'), lightly hazed warm 'old golden' robe with pale ochre-ish tinge and translucent dots of protein floating around here and there. Aroma of soggy bread, roasted parsnip, only very subtle juniper and much more juniper branches than juniper berries (fortunately, I am inclined to add), wet sand, dry hay, desiccated apple slices, sweetclover, petrichor, hints of honey cookies, old cake, croissants, Christmas bread, nori. Fruity onset, sweetish red apple, vague orange and green pear, halfripe peach perhaps, persimmon too - the fruitiness one can expect from a kveik yeast strain, but well-measured and not over the top; softish carb, fluffy mouthfeel. Bread pulp-, fresh croissant- and spice cracker-like maltiness, quickly sliding underneath a juniper herbaceousness - but somehow this effect restrains itself and does not become dominant at all, with in the end just a dash of green juniper branch aroma - even moving into a more clove-like effect reminiscent of Christmas cake and probably more related to the kveik than to the actually added herbs. Floral hops blend in nicely, dried chamomile-like almost, providing soft but adequate bitterness, while a honey waffle-like sweet effect lingers beyond - a bit oddly so, even, because I was not expecting this kind of sweetness this late in the process. In that sense, this is a subtly yet effectively surprising beer: the hops manage to maintain balance, the juniper is only a breeze, the fruitiness is strong yet contained and the finish is somehow sweet in a non-sticky way, while the general breadiness (or should I say 'croissantiness') is very appealing... Feels oddly Christmassy due to the sweet spice effects too, on top of all that. Cleaner than expected, but only superficially simple; in fact this brew contains more surprises than one would expect at first sight. Very different from what I was expecting, but all the more interesting for it.

Back in Gérardmer! BYO. Cheers Ben for the import!

Can shared by Joes. Rusty light amber color, average sized off-white to beige head. Aroma and flavor are malts, lightly sweetish notes, caramel malts, distant caramelized sugars. Average body and fairly soft carbonation.

Pleasant NA ipa.
Not to much wort. Decent citric
[Can from Varnaveien in Rygge, Norway]

Decent and pleasant radler.
Some wort, and an ok mango/fruity profile.
[Can from Meny Ringnes Park in Oslo, Norway]