Närke !

Brewed by Närke Kulturbryggeri
Style: Old Ale
Örebro, Sweden

Draught, 8.2% at EBF08. OK hoppy aroma. Clear dark brown colour. Small stable creamy tan head. The flavour is quite bitter and quite rough.

Tap at EBF. Hazy amber with a red hew & a creamy lasting head. Warm, sticky, roast, vinous, caramel, complex, dark fruits, hops. Creamy mouthfeel. Nose is a bit weak - but taste is super powerful!

Tap @ EBF, 2008, Carlsberg.
Pours slightly muddy ruby red with a good, creamy, yellowish head. Aroma has some cardboard notes, good maltiness and toffee and liquorice. Wonderful, super-creamy mouthfeel. Flavour maintains the cardboard notes, which don’t seem yeast based, more malty. Good viniousness, chocolate, caramel and a good pine-hoppy finish.

Draught Deep red-chestnut, medium yellowish head. Hops, with a rather crude, aggressive hoparoma - like from extract? Some liquorice. Liquorice again and more aggressive hops. Harsh flavour, ending on hidden spice. Burning MF, very slick and viscous, alcoholwarming prominent. this is an over-the-top one, for sure. Too aggressive by half.

<i>Draught@EBF</i>
Dark nut brown color, creamy beige head, some lace. Woody-oaky hoppy aroma. Sweetish, barley malty, a bit oaky flavor. Flowery hoppy finish. Some licorice. Kind of liquerish palate.

Tap @ EBF 2008. Brown color. Vinous aroma with raisin. Firm earthy peppery oily hopbitter flavor. Earthy bitter aftertaste.

From tap. Pours clear and golden amber with a lacing tan head. Aroma is fruity and dense hoppy with a mild caramel note coming through. Flavour is smooth hoppy and fruity on top of a solid caramel malty bse. Sweet and hoppy lingering finish. Quite tasty.

Clear deep amber with medium beige head. Sweet aroma with toasted malt, caramel and hoppy notes. Hoppy flavour with malty, caramel, piney and a bitter end.