Ægir Julebrygg 7.0% (green label)

Brewed by Ægir Bryggeri
Style: English Strong Ale
Flåm, Norway

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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500 ml bottle at Cardinal, Stavanger. Pours deep brown with a small off-white head. Aroma is sweet fruits, sour notes, yeasty and barn. Taste is sweet malty, but turns quick to a very bitter hoppy bite at the end.

50 cl bottle at Patricks, batch 117JGB-B. Best before 2011-01-15. It poured a black colour with a medium big off-white creamy head that settled down fast in the glass. Aroma is sweet with notes of malts, yeast and plums. Some hints of pine and chestnuts as well. The flavour is slightly bitter, but in a pine-way, not loaded with hops. Notes of malts, pine, chestnuts and medium dark caramel. it has a short aftertaste.

Bottle. It looks nice in the glass, with an almost clear, dark amber to brown body and a small beige head. Roasted malt, caramel-sweetness and some fruityness, dried fruits, nice hops and a saison-like scent in the aroma. Brown sugar, roasted malts, some spicyness, dried fruits, hops and a nice herbal bitterness in the flavor. Lasting finish with the initial flavors blending nicely with bitternesss and a touch of alcohol warmth. Full body and a pleasant level of carbonation. A nice one, seemingly with inspiration from several big brewing nations, and dangerously easy to drink. (081128)

500 ml bottle. Dark brown with a red hue. Clear. Medium white head that clings to the glass. Rounded raisiny aroma with a yeasty note. Soft maltiness. Toffee, a little chocolate and lots of burnt caramel. Complex, but nicely drinkable.

500ml bottle served at a comfortable drinking temperature at Olympen, Oslo. Nice mahogany body. Thin, off-white head. Modest aroma of sweet dark malts. Satisfying Yuletide feel in flavour with honey, dark malts and a bit of Christmas spices like cinnamon beneath. Ending up with a decent touch of bitter liquorice. Smooth in the mouth. Medium bodied. Food friendly [Lunch with Hjelle and Kolby company, 16.12.2008].

Bootle. Red amber colour with a beige head. Aroma is caramel, malt. Flavour is caramel, malt, acid, dry, burned, brown sugar. Nice beer.

50 cl bottle at Cardinal, Stavanger. Hazy dark brown color, fine beige head. Aroma is malty and fruity with a hint of sourness. Flavor is sweet and malty, caramel and dried fruit.

UPDATED: NOV 27, 2009 500 ml bottle at Olympen, Oslo. One-finger fully lasting beige head. Translucent, mahogny colored body. Initial aroma of sourish dark bread. Followed by dark fruits, plum marmelade, chocolate and Christmas spices. Also some yeast notes and a whiff of marzipan. Flavorfull. Sourish-sweet, toasted dark malts and dark dried fruit with an acidulous twist. A fine bitterness is lurking under. Medium to full body. A complex ending with malts, dark fruits, spices and a gentle bitterness. Really nice stuff.

Medium darkish beige lasting head. Deep dark translucent red body with light carbonation. Deep yeasty tropical fruit aroma with vinuous notes. Dry-sweet tropical fruit taste with vinuous vinegary notes. Soft and smooth mouthfeel. Fullish body. Dryish licorice and soft metal aftertaste with fruity notes. Quite nice, and quite sweet, but possibly lightly infected. Need to rerate. (0.5l bottle, Olympen, Oslo.)

From bottle at Kontoret, Bergen. Deep ruby red with a big, creamy tan head. Rich, complex fruity aromas. Hints of spices, raisins and plum pudding. A good English old ale that adds complexity to the Norwegian Christmas beer scene.