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Alengrin has a new beer style achievement
Level 4 for Amber / Red Ale - Irish ticks with a total of 25 ticks of this sub style.
Docklands Amber Ale from Vega Bryggeri was the one that did it!
3 weeks ago
Alengrin (11809) reviewed
Docklands Amber Ale from Vega Bryggeri (Göteborg, Sweden 🇸🇪)
3 weeks ago
7.1/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 6.5
Light 'amber ale' by a craft brewery in Gothenburg, bought at a local supermarket in Bromma. Medium thick, frothy and moussey, off-white, slowly breaking head on a crystal clear, warm and deep cognac-tinged orange amber robe. Rather perfumey aroma of orange blossom, biscuit, old crackers, pink peppercorn, dried violets, rosewater, vague caramel sauce somewhere, hibiscus tea. Sweetish, clean and rounded onset, some dried apricot and marmalade hints, lively carb with oily mouthfeel - feeling fuller than the ABV would suggest. Pleasantly biscuity core with cracker- and peanut-like edges under fast growing citrus pith-like and peppery hop bitterness, carrying some herbal to even perfumey notes retronasally (the hibiscus tea and violets again), very flowery, with a long, bittering, spicy finish in which a refreshing minerality keeps lingering too. Something metallic 'zings' as well - in a somewhat 'blood-like' way, not feeling too unnatural, probably related to the brewing water or something... In all, pleasant enough, but more perfumey than I was expecting and in its aromatic hoppiness, feeling a tad West Coast IPA-like from afar as well. Typical U.S. style 'generic' hoppy amber ale - in a very oldschool kind of way. I thought beers like this had gone extinct by now...
Tried on 03 Sep 2026 at 18:27

Alengrin updated a beer: Docklands Amber Ale brewed by Vega Bryggeri
3 weeks ago

Alengrin (11809) reviewed
Norrlands Guld Ljus (Alkoholfri) from Spendrups Bryggeri (Grängesberg, Sweden 🇸🇪)
3 weeks ago
5.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5.5 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Organic non-alcoholic pale lager from Sweden, bought at some supermarket in Stockholm - from a can, which is apparently one of two packaging forms in which it appears, the other being the stubby bottle depicted here. Snow white, medium thick, regular, opening head on a crystal clear, old golden robe with large-bubbled sparkling throughout. Aroma of bread crust, dry Tuc cookies, withering grass, minerals, stale sweat, odd background hints of steamed seafood and dry dog kibble. Crisp, very fizzy onset, overcarbonated even for this style, with a 'storm' of minerality breaking through a sweetish-sourish graininess; that odd sweaty note reappears retronasally, while a soft grassy hop bitter note lingers a bit in the end. Nothing to be too surprised about here especially in a time when brewers all over Western Europe make great efforts to put more flavour in NABLABS - boring even, but I must admit that it feels as 'full' as an alcoholic standard pale lager. I just wonder where those weird sweaty and dogfood-like hints in the nose come from...
Tried on 02 Sep 2026 at 18:50

Alengrin updated a beer: Norrlands Guld Ljus (Alkoholfri) brewed by Spendrups Bryggeri
3 weeks ago

Alengrin (11809) reviewed
FrIPA from Nya Carnegiebryggeriet (Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪)
3 weeks ago
7.3/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
Glutenfree IPA hopped with Polaris, Citra and Simcoe, by this Stockholm craft brewery named after one of Sweden's most famous historical beer brands. Bottle at the marina in Bromma at Lake Mälaren. Medium sized, moussey, eggshell-white, stable head on a misty apricot blonde robe with ochre tinge. Aroma of toasted garlic, armpit sweat or overripe onion, spice crackers, green kiwi, marihuana, dry peppercorns, cucumber peel, stale grapefruit juice. Crisp onset, quite dry, sharply carbonated with an even somewhat numbing effect; vague hints of green apricot and unripe banana, moving into a smooth, cracker-like but still somewhat 'fluffy'-bready maltiness - the breadiness doubtlessly coming mostly from the yeast though. Carbonation-induced minerality runs through the whole, ending in a green unripe guava-, toasted garlic- and pink grapefruit-tinged hoppiness, providing a long, tonic water-ish, extensive bitterness, a bit powdery - but nowhere becoming harsh. Oldskool while at the same time 'timeless' kind of 'generically American style' IPA, balanced and easygoing. Does what it is supposed to do.
Tried on 02 Sep 2026 at 18:40
Alengrin (11809) reviewed
100W from Nya Carnegiebryggeriet (Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪)
3 weeks ago
7.5/10 — Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 8
Old-fashioned IPA hopped with Centennial supported by Mosaic, from the craft brewery in southern Stockholm that only opened in 2014 but named itself after the 19th-century Carnegie Porter, one of Sweden's most famous historical beers, now owned by Carlsberg. From tap at a small marina on the shore of Lake Mälaren - a stunningly beautiful setting. Frothy, pillowy, membrane-lacing, egg-white head over a hazy peach blonde robe with old-golden hue and lone strings of sparkling. Aroma of dried grapefruit peel, toasted garlic, hot olive oil, some sweaty dankness, dry crackers, something lightly sulphurous, grass, bread crust, wormwood, old dry marihuana, minerals. Clean and crisp onset, some very restrained sweetness reminiscent of green pear and unripe peach, fizzy and minerally carb running through the whole, with a full, somewhat oily mouthfeel. Bread-crusty, dry-cracker-like malts strongly bittered by wormwoody, peppery, grapefruity and ever so slightly oniony hoppiness, stretching out extensively over the root of the tongue - powerful, almost tonic water-ish, but perhaps lacking a bit in zesty or spicy aromas retronasally (even if toasted garlic, grapefruit pith and marihuana associations linger a bit after swallowing). Unspectacular for an IPA loosely intended as a West Coast 'original style' example, a tad too sulphurous too, but certainly tasty and effective. Enjoyed it - but the green setting on a Swedish lakeshore may have influenced the experience...
Tried on 02 Sep 2026 at 18:34

Alengrin updated a beer: 100W brewed by Nya Carnegiebryggeriet
3 weeks ago

Alengrin updated a beer: Oude Piro brewed by Brouwerij Strubbe
3 weeks ago

Alengrin updated a beer: India Pale Ale brewed by Theresianer Antica Birreria di Trieste
3 weeks ago