Herslev Strong Ale

Formerly brewed at Herslev Bryghus
Style: American Strong Ale
Herslev, Roskilde, Denmark

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

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Reddish, dark, brown colour with a dense white head. Aroma of malt, caramel, and hints of hops. Flavour of malt, caramel, sweetness as well as some sourness and chocolate.

Deep amber colour with a beige head. Malty, caramel sweet aroma with hoppy fruity notes. Malty, sweet flavor with some hoppy fruityness and a light dusty finish.

2007-11-02, Papsoe Blind Tasting
Sweet caramel brew, with some hop fruitness, quite good.

(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of yespr. Slightly hazy, dark amber golden with a creamy, beige head leaving some lacework. Lightly sweet aroma of burned caramel. Medium body, sweetish flavour of burned caramel and roasted malts. Some bitterness in the finish. 021107

From bottle, blind tasting at Papsoes - beer no 33. Pours amber to brown, clear, with a dense off-white and diminished head. Fruity to nutty aroma with a solid malt base. Flavour is slight citric to the solid dry malt base with a bit of bitterness in the finish. Ends with a slight sweetness and some herbal bitterness further into the finish. Slight salty.

Bottle. Clear red brown coloured with an off white head. Aroma of malts, caramel, fruits, spices and hops. Flavour of fruits, hops, spices, caramel and pine needles.

Bottled. A reddish beer with a lazing tan head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of citrus and grapefruit. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of fruit and berries, while the body is thin - surprisingly. Thanks to yespr for getting this seldom beer.

Bottle. A ruby beer with a big beige head. The aroma and taste is of caramel malt, dusty, and hops, light fruity. Medium body with a dry finish.

#33 [Blind tasting @ Papsoe, Courtesy of yespr] Large creamy beige head which mostly lasted. Dark mahogany coloured. Good lacework. Malty base in the sniff. Light caramel and fruit. Light sour notes with toasted malt. Medium bodied with a light dry texture and an average carbonation. Moderated sweet with light bitter flavour. Light dry and bitter-sweet finish. 4 / 6 / 6 / 3 / 12 = 3.1

Bottle. Dark amber co,our with an average head. Aroma and flavour of caramel, malt, hops and dark fruit.