 Gr0ve (1091), Oslo, Norway
Jul 12, 2008
330 ml bottle. Copper coloured. Tall fine-laced off-white head that falls down slowly. Crisp papery hop aroma with some grainy notes. Clean nutty malty flavours. Delicate and soft, but there is a lot of carbonation there that makes the initial softness end in a fizzy burst. Light nutty flavours with a papery feel. A little too light-bodied and fizzy to make it enjoyable.
oh6gdx (5904), Vaasa, Finland
Sep 6, 2008 Bottled (Thanks Sandra!). Golden colour with white fluffy head, that disappears quite fast. Aroma is hay, malts, rice and maize with some mild grassyness. Flavour is quite much the same with focus on maize/rice.
gunnfryd (2743), Kristiansand, Norway
Aug 24, 2008 Bottle. Golden colour with an off- white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, hay. Flavour is fruit, malt, hay, caramel. Thin beer.
KnutAlbert (2178), Oslo, Norway
Aug 14, 2008 It looks like they want to push this as a premium beer. "Lagered for 50 days", according to the label. Like the Danish "classic" pilseners, a little more caramel malt, and actually more taste, too. There are hints of the usual Grans’ cardboard, but there is actually both a decent malty body and a little crisp bitterness here. There is, indeed, hope for everyone!
Finn (1085), Tromsø, Norway
Aug 10, 2008 Bottle 0,33l. Golden colored. A shortlived fluffy head. Bubbling. Sweet perfumed aroma. Flavor with hint of prunes. Some bitterness in the aftertaste. Unvaried and uninteresting.
Sigmund (1938), Hafrsfjord, Norway
Aug 1, 2008 330 ml green bottle, from REMA 1000. ABV is 4.7%. Clear brown colour, decent off-white head. Unpleasant "industrial" rubbery aroma, some malts and caramel but also some of the sickly "boiled" notes (over-cooked vegetables, baby porridge) that you normally find in n/a beers. The flavour has some caramel, but is otherwise very bland and boring with minimal hops and a "dead" and slightly metallic finish. In a blind test I would probably have guessed that this was a "malty" variety in Ringnes’ n/a Munkholm range. Grans are obviously persistent in their aim to brew only beers that belong in the "soggy bottom" end of the Norwegian beer market.
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