3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20Bottl 50 cl, SB. Pours clear deep amber with a good bubbly creamy beigish head leaving lace. Aroma is malty bready toasted a bit sweet grassy and fruity. Flavor is malty bitter fruity herbal sweet peppery spicy getting more bitter pungent towards the finish. Drinkable and very nice.
2.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
330ml bottle. Golden yellow body with some copper tones. White uneven crown. Medium bitter with orange and grape peel, dark bread and herbs. Medium, brief lasting, carbonation. Thin body and a pretty simple straightforward type of beer.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
0.5 L bottle, brought home from Systembolaget, Strömstad. Foggy pale amber. Low big-bubbled blond head. Earthy and black currant fruity hop nose along with some fresh, light biscuity malts. Sweet refined flavor, both fruity and malty. Berries, with a certain tartness to it, and a fine peppery/spiced malt flavor. Light astingent mouthfeel, in a good way. Well-bodied. Spicy, dry/tart fruity endnotes. A nice one.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
500ml Bottle - Amber/gold with a foamy head. Tangerine, lemon, tea and malt in the aroma. Hoppy and bitter taste with notes of tangerine, biscuity malt and apricot.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle.
Dark golden with an off-white head leaving lacing.
Aroma: sweet malt, berries, fruity, popcorn.
Taste: malty, grass, floral, grapefruit, toffee, quite bitter, medium dry finish.
Medium bodied.
The bottle looked very nice. Not much of a Christmas feel to it, but enjoyable.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Aroma: Smelling of bread, apple, honey and grass.
Appearance: A clear dark straw colored beer. A high off-white head with good lacing and some curtains.
Taste: Tasting of brown bread, bitter orange marmalade and grape-fruit peel.
Palate: Medium carbonation, a soft texture. A good body with a very dry finish.
Overall: A pleasant, more than expected hoppy, ale.
Note: Bottle 500 ml. Reviewed 2013-01-02.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark golden colour with a fine off white head. Caramel malt and hoppy aroma. Medium body. Moderate sweet and rich bitterness. It do not reming me much of an christmas beer. Well anyway it was a solid british ale. Nice hoppy flavour with a solid caramel malty background.
[Bottle from systembolaget in Strömstad, Sweden]
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Smells just right. Tastes a bit. The aftertaste remains for a long time. Just enough good beer. Maybe not världes tastiest but I think this was worth buying anyway.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottled, from Systembolaget. Hazy pale amber, rich head. Fruity niose with lots of hay. Dryish with medium body and soft mouthfeel. Ripe fruits and lots of hay-like hops, notes of dough. Really bitter finish. Soft and accessible really bitter bitter.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Gyllengulöl med ett medelstort vitt skum. Doft av malt och skorpor. Örtig humlearom. Samma återkommer i smaken. Torr och balanserad beska.
En bra standardlager.
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