Hales OBriens Harvest Ale

Beautiful caramel color. Seemed a bit thin and watery. Sharply bitter that faded quickly.

355ml bottle carried all the way from Seattle to Tromsø – courtesy of Elisabeth and Stefan. Bottle conditioned beer, ABV is supposed to be about 6.5%. Cloudy, dark amber content topped by an off-white, low level head. Nice sweet, hoppy aroma with notes of biscuits. Hoppy fruits in flavour, developing in the direction of brittle caramel notes. Bitter finish. Crispy in the mouth. Fairly standard amber [Sampled at a beer session in Tromsø 29.01.2009].

pours a semi-clear, amber-orange with a small beige head that dissipates quickly, not much of a lacing. smell is of caramel, hops, and a slight whiff of malt. taste is watery, hops, touch of citrus, some caramel, a pine aftertaste, with a bitter ending.

The hops are smoother, blends well with the malt, a nice caramel. A little sweet but pours pretty.

2008 Bottle - Pours amber with very little head...aroma is sweet malt, citrus, not as floral as some of the other fresh hopped ales, flavour is straighforward and enjoyable, freshness of the hops does however come thru in the taste, well balanced caramel malt...finishes bitter in the mouth but sweet on the lips...good brew...

Bottle. Pours clear copper with lacy a light orange head. This beer is pretty much citrus and floral hops from beginning to end. Lightly sweet caramel taste, a bit of pine in the finish. Not bad, but doesn’t really knock me out.

This has an excellent hoppy aroma. Great flavorful beer. Interesting that they made a harvest amber. First rating, 3.6 A quite fruity aroma. This is strange. Fruity and malty with a bitter finish. Little to no head. Interesting.

Bottle. Poured deep amber red with almost no head. Aroma of malt, biscuit and vanilla. Malty flavour, with a bit of edge of tongue hoppiness. More bitterness in the finish. A lekker amber.