Närke Äljäjl

Brewed by Närke Kulturbryggeri
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Örebro, Sweden

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Draft. A hazy dark golden beer with a lazing white head. The aroma has strong notes of spices - odd. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and lots of spices, leading to a dry finish. Weird on my palate.

Draught @ 4th Borefts Beer Festival 2012, Brouwerij de Molen, Bodegraven, Netherlands.

ABV: 7.2% (Program) Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, mint, tea, band-aid, herbal. Flavour is moderate sweet with a average to long duration, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120928]

Poured hazy, with a golden color and a lacing off-white head. Grass, hay, green apples, in the somewhat floral aroma. Somewhat bitter taste with a bit of caramel sweetness.

@BBF12. Pours golden with a white head. Aroma is malt, hay, straw and light banana. Flavour is malt, straw, flower and perfume

Draught at Ölrepubliken during "Närkevecka", on February 27, 2013
Hazy golden color, fairly big lasting cream colored head. Sweet, floral, summer meadow, weeddy flower scent after rain, bubblegum, curious and unusual, though not bad, scent. Sweet, herbal, floral, sugary, flower stems, some red berries, dew or rain infused meadow character taste. Sweet, herbal, bubblegum, floral aftertaste. Smooth mouthfeel, frairly moderate co2 level. Pretty low bitterness.
Since "Älgört/Älggräs" (Meadowsweet) was a farily common herb to use in flavoring of beer in sweden before hops became common this is an extra interesting beer for me. I now feel I want to pick some and make a beer of my own in this "old style" Swedish beer.
Uncommon but very nice and interesting scent and taste indeed.
After a while getting used to the first impressions I pick up loads of cinnamon on both and scent and taste that I didn’t get at first.

From tap @Borefts 2012. Near clear gold colored. A finger og white head. Lemon zesty nose. Some herbs, some mild spices and hint of sulphur. Crisp citrussy and spicy flavor. Some hard to pin-point herbal notes. Light sweet malt body. Balancing bitterness. Fresh herbal and citrussy endnotes.

On tap at Tröls. Poured yellow with a 2 finger white head. Smells like chlorine and mead wort. Taste is as above, not very pleasant at all as chlorine is takes over hand - Mead wort is nice but is not a forward taste in this brew at all. The person who was number 3 in line after me handed his beer back as is only smelled like chlorine. First bad beer I’ve had from Närke.

Intensiver Kaffeebeginn. Trockene dunkle Malznoten, konstant. Trocken, würzig auf mildem Niveau. Gelungene Kaffee Alternative. 11/11/11/12//11

The head is ok, the body blond. It smells different fruity, vegetables, spicy, grappa-sugar. The taste is grappa-sugary, grappa, a bit sugary-bitter. Nice and interesting! 12/12/11/10/-/12

Draught at Pikkulintu, Helsinki. Colour is light orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours are spices, herbs, yeast and some malts.