<i>Bottled at Monk’s Café & Bryggeri, Stockholm. </i> Hazy amber, small head. Careful floral resiny hops over cardboardy caramelly malt. Light-medium bodied with rounded spritzy mouthfeel. Mid-strength resiny bitterness.

Bottle@Proeflokaal. Caramel malts and herbal/floral hops. Amber color, off-white head, good lace. Caramel and toffee notes, herbal hops, bitter, good balance. Very nice session beer.

Bottled, Pasteurised. Brown amber with good head. Nice smooth easy drinking bitter with a surprising fresh malty taste and late hop bitterness. Smooth finish, quite nice.

Aromas are biscuit malts and peppery hops. Tan in colour this pours with a dense head of foam. Flavours are hoppy to almost IPA levels. Nice smooth malts with a chalk dry finish.

Bottle. The beer is a bit unclear, dark golden colored, and topped by a small, white head, almost like it would look from cask. Not much, but quite pleasant aroma, with a light note of dried fruits, something reminding of a room where tobacco have been stored for a long time, and caramel. A little roasted note as well. Some vague hoppiness in the far background. The flavor is quite subtle and a bit vague, almost what I would expect from a casked, English bitter. Tobacco, caramel, a tad fuityness, and some bitterness. Malty and biscuity as well, but quite weak, as the rest of the beers impression. A bit watery body, and a finish where the hops linger and lasts for a good while with a little peppery note and a vague bitterness. And lightly roasted malt. <br /><br />This is certainly a beer that needs more than a sampler to disclose all its layers, and it needs a higher temperature than is found in a fridge. Now I miss sitting in an English pub drinking bitters, but what the hell, I know I get tired of them rather quickly. I need variation, but this certainly could be my regular bitter. If something like a regular bitter were an issue here in Norway. A part of me wants to give it a higher score, but somehow it doesn’t deserve it. It’s so damn quaffable and enjoyable that it could easily be a 3.7, but the aroma, appearance, flavor and mouthful on their own doesn’t deserve more than I gave.(070520)