Brutal Brewing It Aint Over Until The Big Brewmaster Sings

Brewed by Spendrups Bryggeri
Style: American Pale Ale
Grängesberg, Sweden

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker

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Draught (Stockholm Beer Festival 2011) - Amber in colour. Hoppy aroma with notes of pine and toffee. Hoppy and fruity taste with notes of dried fruit, grapefruit and toffee.

Draught as The Geek at Flying Horese. Pours mahogny with an offwhite head. Aroma of citrus detergent. Taste of resins, metall bitterness (at first when cold) and malt. Rather UK for an APA.

On tap (as The Geek) A clear amber colour with a small off-white head. An aroma of malt, caramel, fruit and grass. The taste medium sweet and light bitter. A medium body, light oily texture, average carbonation and a medium long duration.

Draft @ SBWF2011. Pours an amber color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy aroma with hints of caramel. Fruity malty bitter hoppy caramel flavor. Has a fruity malty citrus hoppy finish.

Sampled at SBWF. Stockholm, September 29th, 2011.
A hoppy aroma with citrus fruits and spice. A slight butter note destroys what otherwise could be a fresh and quite nice aroma. The taste is malty with spicy bitter hops, pretty plain but not at all bad.

UPDATED: MAR 11, 2012 (Draught at Stockholm Beer Festival, 1 Oct 2011) Reddish amber colour with frothy, beige head. Malty, slightly toasty nose with grainy malt, elderflowers, grass and citrus. Malty, slightly hoppy taste with notes of citrus and grainy malt. Slightly metallic with a decent citric bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with balanced sweetness. Quite nice. (Rerate: draught at Flying Horse Odengatan, Stockholm, 29 Feb 2012, as "The Geek") Reddish amber colour with brief, frothy, off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with notes of orange peel, grapefruit and red fruit. Malty, fruity taste with caramel, orange peel, grapefruit and a generous citric bitterness in the finish. Medium body, with balanced sweetness. Nice one. Same rating as before.

Draught@SBWF2011. Deep amber colour, small off-white head. Aroma is caramel malts, some fruity and grassy hops as well as mild toffeeish notes. Flavour is grains, hops, mild earthy and some caramelly notes. Feels like the hops have disappeared quite much from the flavour.

Draught at Stockholm Beer Festival. Clear pale brown, small head. Aggresively dry hopped with pears dominating. Sweetish with an exceptionally pungent chemical flavour of bicarbonate. Rock hard and edgy with terpentine and vile chemicals in the finish. WTF?

Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival 2011. opper/golden beer, small offwhite head. Malty aroma with citrus. Hoppy flavor, grassy, swimming pool, some tropical fruits.