Gledelige Lervig Juleøl

Brewed by Lervig Aktiebryggeri
Style: Amber Lager/Vienna
Stavanger, Norway

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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0,5 l can from Ica Maxi, Sandnes. Three fingers thick foamy head on a clear chestnut colored body. Wooden, caramel and tobacco nose. Sweet, toasted, metallic and medium bitter. Medium body. Dry tongue.

UPDATED: NOV 20, 2005 Rerate, 2005, 330 ml bottle: This is the first year that this beer is actually brewed by Lervig in Stavanger, but they haven’t changed the recipe much since it was contract brewed by Mack/Trio. "Gledelige" has been added to the name. It is still a very unpretentious "klasse D" juleøl, but I somehow think the hops are slightly better this year. Easy drinking, not offensive, OK with a meal, but not a "big" beer in any way. Original rating, 2003: (330 ml bottle). Norwegian "klasse D" Yule beer. Copper coloured, good head. Malty aroma with hints of caramel and oak. You don’t expect much from the grocery store versions of "juleøl" - and (at least in this case) you don’t get much either. Nothing offensive about it, just a one-dimensional beer with some maltiness (but not too sweet) and just a hint of toffee and oak - hardly any spices. Okay to wash down a meal, but for Christmas you want something better than this!

500 ml can (thanks to Sigmund). Shiny amber color. Low greyish head quickly reduced to some tiny islands of foam. Nice toffee/cream-caramel aroma. Also notes of sweet dark fruits. Sweet-flavored with caramel and toffee again. Medium bitterness. Slim body. Sugar and mild bitterness in the ending. Enjoyable, but a bit thin.

500 ml bottle. Crystal clear brown colour. Tall light beige fine-laced head. Floral hops aroma with hints of nuts and raisins. Some chocolate. Crisp carbonation level. The beer is quite bitter for a Christmas beer like this, but it is not any less interesting because of that, quite the opposite. If feels refreshing and lively on the palate. Reminds me a lot of a clean and tasty brown ale.

Bottle. Dark amber colour with a big beige head. Caramel malty aroma and a sweet caramel malty taste. Medium body with a light dry finish.

Bottle b.b 17.07.2009.Pours red brown with an off-white head.Aroma of malt , dark fruits, brettanomyces, sourish and funky.Probably not intended from the brewer, but kinda interresting.Flavor is sour and malty with some sweetness.Probably kind nice fresh , but more interresting with age.Nice.

(Bottle 33 cl) Pours a dark orangey brown with a small, off-white head. Light aroma of caramel and burned nougat. Medium-bodied with dry caramel notes and some bitterness in the finish. Very decent. 150906

Can. Brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is caramel, malt, roasted. Flavour is roasted malt, caramel, hint of hop. A little bit ordinary beer.

Bottle. Clear orange coloured with an off white head. Aroma of malts and caramel with notes of roasted malts. Sweet flavour of malts and caramel with notes of roasted malts.

Huge beige coarse head over darkish red-brown body. Light, sweetish grainy aroma with caramel notes. Taste is soft sweetish caramel without too much depth. Dry aftertaste. Decent, but boring. (0.5l can.)