3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours a nice opaque dark-chocolate brown with a fine-bubbled light tan head that leaves some good lacing. Aroma is not strong, but does invite a taste with malty, woody, and subtle cinnamon and cloves notes. Flavor has a malty core with spice (cinnamon and cloves) hints and a woody, slightly bitter hops undertone. Texture has average body but a fair amount of tingle, leaving a fizzy, woody finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from Systembolaget. Pours dark amber / orange with a medium off-white head. Nose is sweet, bready malt, some fruit (tropical, orange). Taste is slightly bland at first before turning into a long, medium bitter finish. There’s some sweetness in there to balance it up. Body is light with low carbonation. A decent Christmas beer to have with the "julbord" but nothing special.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Clear red/brown - white head. Roasted, nice fruity, nice malty, berries, chocolate, ok hoppy, coffee notes, nice balance.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled. Reddish amber colour with a mediumsized beige head. Aroma is nutty, a bit spicy, fruity and floral notes. Flavour is nutty, spicy, floral, wooden and some slight notes of hops as well. Rather strangely balanced as for the flavour.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
355 ml bottle bought @ Systembolaget and consumed on December 8. Pours deep amber with an offwhite head that slowly dissipates. Smell is slightly sweet and hoppy with some bread, orange zest, grapefruit and pine. Taste is sweet and bitter with orange zest, boiled vegetables and sourdough. Finish is rather dry and slightly bitter.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle from SB. Red-brown colour. Creamy off-white head. Aroma is light metallic, some syrup, bread, actually some red berries and caramel as well. Flavor is mostly medium bitter and little nutty. Dry finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
12oz bottle into a pint glass.
Pours a clear dark red with a 1.5 finger tan head that does not fade away. Great score for appearance.
Aroma is of earthy hops and cedar. Perhaps some ginger thrown in as well.
Taste is much like the smell. The same earthy/weedy hop flavor that comes through on the aroma along with some ginger notes. Not a lot of malt flavor, though and everything is quick to fade into a lingering bitterness. Not terribly complex.
Overall, this is just an ok beer. It seems like it is so close to being very good. I would probably get it again, though.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle from Systembolaget. Classic american aroma, hoppy tones of citrus and spice. Beautiful mahogany red-brown clear colour, with a wheat malt type of head that never really settles. Taste is pretty normal american microbrew brown ale, quite tasty. Hops dominate, as is norm, but there is some caramel malt sweetness and munich malt stamina. Unfortunately slightly watery which pulls down the mouthfeel. Standard US microbrew brown ale, not very x-massy but a good beer never the less. Up the alcohol a bit and there’s a great winter warmer.
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