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Beer5000

Kristiansand, Norway 🇳🇴 Member Supporter
For me one proper and honest beer review is more worth than 100 ticks without any relevant content. It’s all about respect for the beer and the craftmanship behind. I will always try to do my best for a proper rating than playing the number game.

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6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle @ home. Clear golden body under a nice, lacing off-white head. Aroma has clean malt and ripe citric fruits. Taste is smooth, sweet malt, some citric fruit, hint of toffee and balanced bitterness. Medium body with smooth and slightly bitter aftertaste. A fine, straight forward easy drinkable classic beer in the crossing between pale ale and IPA.

Tried on 17 Sep 2025 at 17:17


7.3
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Tap @ the brewpub. Dark brown, very close to black body under a fine, lacing beige head. Aroma has dark, medium roasted malt, pine with hint of coffee and dark chocolate. Taste is medium sweet, dark, smooth roasted malt, some pine, hint of dark chocolate and bitter expresso coffe with a decent and balanced bitterness. Balanced body with a slightly roasted and pleasant bitter aftertaste. A pretty straight forward, pleasant black IPA.

Tried from Draft at Christianssand Brygghus on 16 Sep 2025 at 16:00



7.5
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Bottle @ home. Unclear golden brown body under a fine, stable, big tan head. Aroma has slightly roasted malt, hint of toffee, chocolate nuts and a light fruity touch. Taste is smooth, soft, mild roasted malt, bread, nuts, hint of chocolate and some fruity bitterness. Well balanced body, balanced in taste and very easy drinkable with a distinct flavor. All over a fine sample of this lager style this is.

Tried on 13 Sep 2025 at 17:14

gave a cheers!

6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Can @ home. Pitch black body under a fine beige head. Aroma has dark, roasted malt, dark chocolate and some slightly boozy alcohol. Taste starts like sweet, dark roasted malt and dark chocolate, but then after a few more sips it does not feel so sweet anymore. The alcohol seems to make the beer dryer and the chocolate taste like very dry, dark chocolate. The bourbon flavor is moderate, but the alcohol sting is quite distinct together with some vanilla and wood. I guess this is not the first use of this bourbon barrel. Its not bad, but it might need some more sweetness to balance the alcohol.

Tried on 07 Sep 2025 at 18:39


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Can @ home. Slightly unclear golden body under a big, stable white head. Aroma and taste are like a nice classic old school IPA, smooth malt, biscuit, fruity hops, hint of pine and nice bitterness. I can’t say I found any association with forest etc. here besides some pine, but this was a nice and refreshing version of a classic IPA and that suits me nice as we don't see them too often this days.

Tried on 07 Sep 2025 at 18:10


7
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Can @ home. Unclear golden body under a nice, lacing tan head. Aroma has malt, mild smoke and distinct kveik. Taste has sweet malt, mild smoke, fruity kveik and low bitterness. Fine balanced body and same aftertaste as the rest. An easy drinkable and mild introduction to traditional farmhouse ale with kveik

Tried on 07 Sep 2025 at 17:53


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5.5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 6

Can from Gulating. Close to clear golden with a slightly touch of red under a small white head. Aroma has apple cider with some kind of other fruits in combination, a hint of yeast as well. Taste is refreshing fruity with some mild acidity and sweetness. Easy going and refreshing.

Tried on 07 Sep 2025 at 17:46


3.8
Appearance - 3 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 3 | Overall - 4

Backlog august 2016. Clear reddish body under a small pink head that fades quickly. Aroma of artificial candy berries with a faint hint of malt and yeast. Taste goes in the same direction with artificial berries, anonymous malt and some yeast. One dimensional and boring.

Tried on 04 Sep 2025 at 19:14