3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 Holmen2 (50) - NORWAY - MAY 23, 2013
Nice and persistend head. Aroma of American hops and grapefruit. Good American IPA taste, but not exceptional. Bitter and hoppy aftertaste.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 gunnfryd (8564) - Kristiansand, NORWAY - MAY 21, 2013
Bottle. Deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is citrus, pine, malt, fruit. Flavour is citrus, pine, malt, fruit, hop. Medium body. OK beer.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 lusikka (4046) - Tampere, FINLAND - APR 26, 2013
500 ml bottle @ WPBF 2013.
Pours a cloudy orange amber colour with a white head. Aroma of grassy hops, hay and some sweet caramel. Flavour of sourish berries, mango, grassy hops, hay, caramel malts and floral notes. Medium bodied, slick mouthfeel and a bitter, mango and caramel. Somewhat messy.
2.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 oh6gdx (18576) - Vasa, FINLAND - APR 26, 2013
Bottled (thanks omhper!). Amber colour, small beige foamy head. Aroma is fruity, mild glue, rubber and rich on the yeast. Flavour is berries, rubber, yeast and some glue.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20 olio (4086) - Tampere, FINLAND - APR 26, 2013
50 cl bottle @ wPBF’13.
Pours hazy copper color with a small head. Aroma of danish berries and mild hops. Flavor is the same with some caramel and dry malts, mild toffee too. Dry palate.
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2.7 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 laiti (3933) - Tampere, FINLAND - APR 26, 2013
50 cl bottle @ wPBF’13
Aroma has some sweet malty notes and cardboard. Flavour is somewhat tart with malty notes, berries, and cardboard. What is this? Not an IPA at all. Quite close to some malty alcoholfree beers.
1.3 AROMA 2/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 2/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 5/20 Bathory (360) - Bryne, NORWAY - MAR 22, 2013
Pours a copper see-through colour with a white head. A bit skunky aroma, maybe from the yeast. Also some malts and nuts. Didn’t smell that good. Flavour is quite the same. This one was not good, almost that there are something wrong with it.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 Geokkjer (4260) - Kristiansand, NORWAY - MAR 8, 2013
Bottle. Pours golden with an off-white head. Aroma of citrus, malt and peach. Flavor is sweet and floral with some fruitiness, malt and citrus. medium body, average carbonation.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20 pentaz (470) - Frederiksberg, DENMARK - FEB 21, 2013
Bottle. Pours cloudy orange amber with a semi lasting off-white small head. Aroma is hay, grass, caramel, corn, light buttery, vegetable, phenols - pepper and spice. Taste is light +sweet and bitter with a sour note. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. Finishes herbal and dusty dry. Surprisingly low hoppyness for an IPA, and this is supposedly an American IPA according to the description.
2.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 9/20 OleR (4247) - Oslo, NORWAY - FEB 5, 2013
0.5L bottle, ordered from Vinmonopolet Nettbutikk. Pours a clear golden brown, with a tall airy head. Earthy and mild resiny hop aroma. Faint caramel malts. Light to medium full. Slick. Sharp mouth-puckering bitterness. Stale cardboardy hop flavor. Lightly sweet, mostely sour malt base. Sour-bitter ending. Not very enjoyable, this one.
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