With Puffin Brewery, we want to infuse the best of Belgium, the beer country par excellence, with the rich nature and culture of Iceland. You will be able to taste and experience these two cultures in our beers.
Our production started in June 2020 and we choose quality over quantity. Our beer is brewed in very small batches of 100L or 500L in collaboration with brewery BRAUW.
Plutonowymaniek (212) reviewed Strokkur from Puffin Brewery 9 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Kolor pomarańczowy , bardzo mętny. Piana biała, niska, średnio trwała.
Aromat słodowy słodki, owocowy, głównie owoce europejskie z odrobiną karmelu.
Smak zbalansowany, słodowa słodycz i chmielowa goryczka pozostają w równowadze. Dopiero finisz jest mocniej wytrawny a jego intensywność zmienia się w czasie.
Alkohol dobrze ukryty. Wysycenie wysokie w dół. Ciało średnie. Tektura gładka. Posmak bardzo długi wytrawny.
Sloefmans (15338) reviewed Fjaðrárgljúfur from Puffin Brewery 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Huge fluffy white head over well-carbonated, deep brown beer. Wild yeast, shrubs, juniper, wild berries, even bog myrtle, and freshly milked cow milk, yoghurt. Sourish, diary, wood and again shrublike flavours. Lemony, lipsmacking acidity. Light body, certainly for the claimed 8.5% ABV; slick, oily feel, very carbonated. Aftertaste has some liquorice. I suppose it's an acquired taste... Txs to Stef!
CloakedDagger (37038) reviewed Skógafoss from Puffin Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle 33 cl. Pours a clear, nutty brown with a small, creamy, beige head. Estery, Belgian nose, brown sugars and overripe fruit. Solid body, overripe fruit, molasses - solid oxidation. Never really sweet and paired with quite a bitter finish. You sense some warming alcohol. 150323
CloakedDagger (37038) reviewed Eyjafjallajökull from Puffin Brewery 2 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle 33 cl. Pours opaque black with a tiny, rough light brown head. Nose of oxidized, overripe dark fruits - plummy. Rich, sweet body - again overripe fruits and molasses with a hint of smoke. Warming alcohol finish. Interesting and different. 150323
CloakedDagger (37038) reviewed Strokkur from Puffin Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle 33 cl. Pours a cloudy golden with a white head. Estery, slightly phenollic aroma - the smell of a vitamin jar. Rich, sweet fruity body, still quite estery and mineral. Extremely unclean fermentation. Subdued bitterness. 230222
CloakedDagger (37038) reviewed Þingvellir from Puffin Brewery 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle 33 cl. Pours a cloudy, opaque deep golden with a rough, white head. Very faint citrus notes, clearly no dryhopping. Medium body, a slightly sweet fruitiness before a mouthdrying sweetness sets in - bordering astringent. Totally lacks aroma hops. 230222
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Eyjafjallajökull from Puffin Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
One of a whole string of beers with Icelandic names, developed for a client brewery passionate about Iceland, hence those names – and the name “Puffin Brewery” for said client brewery, named after the sea bird indigenous to (among other regions) Iceland. Maybe this Puffin Brewery deserves its own brewery status on this website, but I will leave that up to the admins to decide. This is the barleywine in this Puffin series, brewed at Brauw, like the rest of the range; it is named after the Icelandic volcano which erupted for the last time in 2010 (an event which was extensively covered by media at the time). Yellow-beige, fine-bubbled but completely loose head, fizzing away into nothing in seconds, like the ‘head’ on a glass of coke; very dark chocolate brown with hazy burgundy edges. Aroma of moist peat, whisky, roasted chicory, bitter chocolate, walnut oil, nail polish remover, wet leather, fig, cigars, roasted hazelnuts, blood, elderberry syrup, hint of bonfire. Sweet onset (raisin, elderberry) with a sourish edge as well as a subtle umami aspect (beef stock) and softish carb; very full body. Hard-caramelly, pecan-nutty maltiness, not very sweet and instead developing quite a toasty-bitter edge, even chicory-like, the bitterness accentuated by a herbal hop note and much more by very boozy, hot, whisky-like alcohol, flanked with solventy effects. Notes of smoked fig and blood-like iron linger around as well. Powerful and intense, but crude and rather harshly boozy and solventy as well – this could become a great beer with a lot of finetuning and perfectioning. In terms of style: barleywine perhaps in strength, but a very dark and bitter-toasty one then.
Kraddel (15810) reviewed Eyjafjallajökull from Puffin Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours dark caramelly redbrown. Small, nearly no head. Scent is sharp, roasted, very mild smoke. Alcohol is fairly hidden. Taste is full, very roasty ( especially for a BW ) . mild sweet undertone. ashy, almost. Burnt coffee. strong BE yeast profile, a bit astrigent due to the fermentation. Fairly bitter. Not a big fan.
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