UPDATED: APR 20, 2024 Bottle at share: pours copper with white head. Aroma toffee, lemony, lightly funky, some malt. Taste smooth, fruity, funky. Excellent. Aged well.

UPDATED: APR 20, 2024 Bottle, at share, 2017 vintage, thanks to Julie. Pours amber. Lemon, biscuit, apple juice, pear, toffee, prune. Nice spritz. Excellent.

UPDATED: APR 5, 2024 Hazy medium brown with a foamy white head. Aroma is red wine vinegar, berries, dried cherries, and honey. Taste is light sweet, light/medium sour, and light/medium bitter.

UPDATED: OCT 24, 2023 Barrel aged ‘bière de mars’ (an originally 14th-century but now forgotten seasonal beer style from northern France, also called ‘bière de printemps’) by Hill Farmstead, one of their ‘ancestral’ beers, because Norma is the first name of the brewer’s maternal grandmother apparently. Medium thick, moussy, pale greyish white, stable head on a misty ruddy-bronze-tinged deep amber coloured robe (amber being the correct colour for bière de mars indeed). Aroma of pickled peaches, balsamico, redcurrant, sherry vinegar, old oxidized sparkling wine, old oak wood, oloroso sherry, passionfruit. Tart fruity onset, a bit lemony and slightly puckering at first, softening down further on, with notes of redcurrant, cranberry, medlar and passionfruit, over a vague touch of balsamic vinegar. Fizzy carbonation, supple body consisting of a hazelnutty and hard-caramelly malt character dried by lactic sourness, which retains its lively fruitiness throughout; woody tannins accentuate the drying effect even more, with these passionfruit, balsamic and sour red berry flavours lingering. Quite layered and elegant, with a strong retronasal effect of old oxidized (oloroso) sherry; they can call this a bière de mars and I am sure that is what it was like before it went into the barrel, but the bacterial microflora applied here has turned it into a sour ale – which, in combination with the nutty, darkish-amber malt character, has more in common with Flemish red (‘oud bruin’) than true French bière de mars. Regardless, this is a sophisticated sour ale by this famous yet somewhat elusive and fascinating craft brewer.

UPDATED: OCT 22, 2023 2017 bottle. Pink color. Raspberry and floral notes in the aroma. Sour flavor with raspberry, tannines, lots of oak and red berries.

UPDATED: AUG 19, 2023 0,75 litre Bottle, at a share in Brumunddal. (As 2018 vintage) Reddish brown with little white head. Fruity, oak, sweetness, Smooth! Really Nice!

UPDATED: MAY 23, 2023 2017 bottling. 750ml. Amber beige head.  Malty bready nose.  Some oxidation notes, maybe the caramalt, cherry and date and some medicine.  Flavors same with neutral wood.  Tart and dry, long finish.  Maybe a bit old.  Not their best.  7 4 7 3 13

UPDATED: FEB 26, 2023 750ml bottle. Tartish and slightly malty with hints of honey and oak, mild funky farmyardy notes. Quite balanced

UPDATED: JUN 29, 2022 On tap @ Toronado. Opaque dark amber beer with an off-white head. Sour dark fruits like plum, grape, and cherry. Some raisin, oak, and a damp funk to it. There's a nice mix of sweet malts and fruits along with some lactic tartness and a hint of balsamic. Just a hint of warming spice in the background.

UPDATED: MAR 26, 2022 A hazed dark reddish amber ale with a thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light fruity esters, light Brett, light lactic notes, pleasant. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with light banana esters, light Brett, light lactic notes, pleasant. Bottle from 2011.