Berentsens Jule Avec (2009-)

Brewed by Berentsens Brygghus
Style: Old Ale
Egersund, Norway

Serve in English pint, Snifter

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330 ml bottle. Dark brown body with a thin beige head. Aroma is mild and smooth malty with dry fruit and spices. Flavor is sweet malty, slightly roasted like burnt brown sugar, dry fruit and spicy in a Belgium style. Ok bitter finish. Nice balance. Better than 2007 version.

Bottle, 33cl, from Vinmonopolet, Oslo. Very dark reddish brown colour. Head quickly settles into a thin ring. Aroma of malt, figs, caramel, soy sauce, blueberries. Sweet taste, full-bodied, slick and slightly fizzy mouthfeel. Finishes with cloves and liquorice. Slightly bitter, lasting aftertaste. Very good.

Dark brown. Liquid sticks to the glass side. Aroma is yeasty and alcoholic. with some roasted malts and oak. Sweet and bitter. Roasted with alciholic and bitter finish. Oily texture. Medium bodied.

Medium brown head. Just barely translucent dark red body. Fruity wild berry aroma with spicy toffee notes, fairly mild. Meaty vanilla notes as well. Sweet-dryish brown sugary and roasty meat and soy sauce taste with earthy musty notes. Really unusual. Feels like something odd has happened to the yeast. Full-bodied. Mild, sugary mouthfeel. Leaves sticky sugars on lips. Sweetish soy sauce and licorice aftertaste with salty notes. Too sweet to drink much of. Second bottle had less of the sweetness, meat, and soy sauce, and felt more normal. Numeric rating is a merge of the two. Didn’t enjoy first bottle much, second was quite good. (0.33l bottle, wine monopoly.)

27.12.2009, 0,33l Bottle. Black colour with a thin layer of tan dense head. Aroma is rich sweet malts. Its dark and dry like bitter dark chocolate. Very nice bitterness and very well balanced. A relly nice christmas beer! Merry christmas!

330ml bottle. Dark brown color with beige head. Aroma of caramel and malt. Taste of caramel, raisins and some licorice.

330ml, dark green bottle. Deep, dark ruby body. Just a tiny ring of off-white bubbles at the top. Decent lacing on the glass. Aroma of chocolate malts with an herbal touch. Roasted, sweet malts added by dark and dried fruits. Notes of prunes and apricot and anise. Bitter dark fruits to the aftertaste in fusion with a solid punch of warming alcohol. Fine Christmas spirit in this one (Tromsø 23.12.2009).

Alcohol edge, brandy-like. Sweet fruit, nuts, malt, dryish finish. Fizzy beer, but the carbonation disappears fast.

330 ml green bottle, ABV 9%, from Vinmonopolet. Very dark reddish brown colour, nearly black. Huge to big tan head. Nice aroma, notes of dark malts, hints of dark syrup and burnt caramel. Rich mouthfeel. The flavour is very malty and moderately roasty, notes of burnt caramel again. Sweet, but not over the top. The alcohol is not disturbing. Moderate hops in the finish, I wouldn’t mind if there had been more of them.

Bottle @ Cardinal. Pours very dark brown, with a small off-white head Aroma is sweet caramel, roasted dark malts, alcohol and raisins. Taste is medium sweet , roasted caramel with a dark touch. Ends with the typical warmth of alcohol and roasted malt .