Maakun (16597) reviewed Gezondheid, Local Hero! from Bryggja 5 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 5.5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle shared at home. Slight hazy golden with white head. Sweet malts, light cardboard, pils malts, soft alcohol, a touch of herbs. Medium sweet and bitter. Solid medium bodied, quite boozy. Very meh.
Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Aristide from Bryggja 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Dark brown color. Roast, milk chocolate in the aroma and Flavor, caramel. Hazelnut. Sweet, sticky, raisin, some roastbitterness in the finish. Could have some more body.
nathanvc (6963) reviewed Mysticum Cosmic Ale from Bryggja 5 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Pours hazy yellow with a quickly thinning, frothy, white head. Aroma and taste have sweetish mandarin, pear & apple peel, yeasty profile with soft sour accents. Mineral effect overall. Grassy & floral hoppy finish, more yeast & subtle fruit. Medium body, slick texture, fizzy carbonation. Nothing special, moving on.
laiti (11645) reviewed Mysticum Cosmic Ale from Bryggja 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5
33 cl bottle @ home. Rated on 19.04.2020 Aroma has apricot, minerals and mild hayish tones. Lots of foam when pouring. Fizzy palate. Flavour has apricot, mild cerealy malt and minerals. Somewhat refreshing and quite rich for this ABV.
blackisle (5698) reviewed Amuse from Bryggja 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Hazy deep golden colour, tall frothy off-white head, half-way lasting, fair lacing. Gingery nose, aroma pale malt, apricot, yeast, hay, spices & herbs (ginger, gentian, quinine). Taste medium bitter and light sweet, grainy, spices & herbs. Medium body, prickly mouthfeel, soft carbonation, dry bittersweet aftertaste, citrus pith, wormwood, lingering peppery notes, too spicy/herbal, lacks fruitiness and balance.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Aristide from Bryggja 6 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Strong stout flavoured with 'drop' (liquorice candy, not the first one to use this ingredient even in Belgium), by this brewery near Bruges. Gusher, but can be opened without loss if done very carefully (and over the sink just to make sure). Very thick and foamy, thickly paper-lacing, large-bubbled but dense and firm, pale greyish-ecru head on a dark chestnut brown beer with hazy wine red hue - not the kind of opaque black one expects from a stout of this strength, though. Aroma of old caramel candy, vegetable soup and vegetable 'bouillon', cooked salsify and even overcooked broccoli (DMS and a lot of it!), damp earth, old liquorice indeed, ground walnuts, dried prunes, soggy toast, cloves, dried tarragon, coffee filters that have been used repeatedly, hints of iron (in a natural way), bayleaf, brown soap, old brown bread, whisky, frying tomato concentrate, some faint wood glue-like solvents, chewing gum somewhere but very faintly so. Estery onset, restrained in sweetness but still hinting at baked banana, dried fig and apple peel, very fizzy carbonation (filling the mouth - yet not too painfully stinging), light umami accent (beef jerky), sourish undertone; full, fluffy mouthfeel coarsened a bit by the overcarbonation. Brown-bready, toasty and doughy malts with a caramelly edge, dryish with a sweetish core, bitterish in the end but rather softly so and lacking in the expressive 'black' chocolate and coffee aspects inherent to stouts in general; meanwhile lots of fruity and spicy yeasty aspects dance around aimlessly, with strong clove- and somewhat thyme-like impressions. Ends yeasty, bready and 'rounded' bitter, the latter both from malts and from - herbal and leafy - hops, accentuated by a 'jenever'-coloured alcohol glow; the liquorice is certainly there, but fortunately does not overpower too much. Many attempts at the old but revived and still very prestigious 'imperial stout' genre have been made in Belgium since Regenboog, Alvinne and Struise introduced it here, but many have failed, in remaining basically Belgian style beers (often quadrupels) with an above average toasted bitterness; this one fits that category perfectly, with the additional comment that it has turned out much too yeasty, with unpleasant cooked vegetable notes (DMS - which I hate with a passion) taking over in the nose and being overcarbonated. Technically flawed (something I do not tend to expect from Bryggja), way too Belgian-yeasty for the intended style and lacking significantly in roastedness, this is again more Scotch-like than imperial stout-like, and not even the most pleasant one in that respect. Needs to be rethought and reinvented completely - and please omit that annyoing liquorice nobody is waiting for, I would almost say I'd have preferred coriander seed instead... Almost.
Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Waldorph Whisky Infused Edition from Bryggja 6 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Bottle. Dark brown color. Caramel, soft smoke, dust in the aroma. Malty sweet, dusty, soft roast, smoke, dried fruit. Thinnish, alcoholic. Perhaps a bit of cheap whisky. Lacks balance and had some odd flavors.
blackisle (5698) reviewed Bruin from Bryggja 6 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Clear brilliant chestnut brown colour, tall frothy beige head, half-way lasting, good lacing. Aroma toasted malt, dark fruit, cocoa, liquorice, spicy notes. Flavour medium sweet and bitter, malty, light chocolate, caramel, light dark fruit, light liquorice, spicy notes. Medium body, oily texture, soft carbonation, mild sweetbitter finish, spicy and liquorice notes, quite good.
