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

Can from Gulating. Unclear golden body under a big, foamy white head. Aroma has some malt with distinct brown cheese/caramel. Taste is smooth with malt and brown cheese, medium sweet lactose and moderate bitter. Without knowing this is brown cheese, it could easily go for mild caramel or toffee. Actually, a pretty balanced pastry beer at only 4,7 % ABV. Unusually, fun and quite drinkable.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Can from Gulating. Unclear golden body under a big, foamy white head. Aroma is mild malty with no sign of choco. Taste is also on the malty side, medium sweet with a slightly sour touch and hint of some kind of bitterness, not necessary from the hops. Medium body with average aftertaste. Not the best or interesting beer from this calendar.

Can @ gunnfryd. Unclear deep amber body under a beige head. Aroma has dark malt, dry fruit, vanilla, oak and alcohol. Taste is sweet malt, dry fruit, wood, warming alcohol, a bit vinous and moderate bitterness. Nice and smooth.

Can @ gunnfryd. Unclear golden body under a white head. Arom of pale malt, herbs, pine and red berries. Taste is moderate sweet, smooth malt, mild herbs, hint of pine, rose hips, slightly floral with a herbal kind of bitterness. Interesting.

Bottle @ gunnfryd. Black body without any head. Aroma of dark malt, chocolate, some dry fruit and alcohol. Taste is sweet, dark malt, chocolate, wood, hint of vanilla and warming, slightly boozy alcohol. Solid stuff.

Bottle @ gunnfryd. Black body under a small, beige head. Aroma of dark malt and chocolate. Taste is dark malt, chocolate, caramel, vanilla and alcohol. Very sweet.

Bottle @ gunnfryd. Black body under a small, beige head. Aroma of dark, slightly roasted malt, dark chocolate and boozy alcohol. Taste is very sweet with dark malt, chocolate, caramel and alcohol. Full bodied with long lasting, sweet and boozy aftertaste.

Can @ gunnfryd. Black body under a small, tan head. Aroma of dark malt and dark chocolate. Taste is sweet, dark malt, chocolate and warming alcohol. Full bodied with chocolate aftertaste. Kinda nice as a pastry but one dimensional.

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

Can from Gulating. Slightly unclear golden body under a big, foamy white head. Aroma has malt with distinct caramel and toffee. Taste is sweet malt with roasted, slightly bitter caramel. Not as sweet as expected at all. In the world of extreme sweet pastry beers with artificial flavours this is quite different. More towards a kind of old-fashioned approach, if you put it that way. It does not taste like these typical kind of classic Christmas beer with caramel malt either, this is more like a golden ale or something added with Werther's Original caramel candies. Unusually but quite nice actually. Medium body and a rather dry, caramel finish.