New Glarus Norski

Formerly brewed at New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Heller Bock
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Pours a deep gold with little head that disappears quickly. Taste if full of malt and honey as the aroma suggests. This was a great beer for a hot night in Iowa, which is weird since it's supposed to be a winter brew.

Medium yellow hue with an good head and lace. The aroma hints of toasted malts, aromatic hops, citrus, wheat fields and honey, Very floral on the nose. Sweet and silky taste with a lighty bitter and fruity undertone. Thin-bodied with a minor mettalic feel. Not a true bock but more of a hybrid, doesn't fit any style and doesn't really excel at any charcteristics either.

I like the Bock beer style, but unfortunately this one fell a bit short. It poured an average sized white head with fine-small sized bubbles that mostly diminished. The body was slightly cloudy with soft carbonation observed. The hue was pale yellow. The nose was malty, sweet and fruity. The flavor of this beer was sweet from start to finish with a tingly, smooth, thin-watery texture and light bodied. There was a fair amount of lacing.

This brew poured a large head of fine to medium sized white colored mostly lasting bubbles that left behind a good lacing and a carbonated weak urine yellow colored body. The aroma is mild and sweet malted. The mouthfeel is smooth with a slight tingling sensation in its finish. The flavors are mild with notes of fruit and malt. Not a good example of a bock in my book. Ein sehr gut bier bitte!

Sweet, fruity, clear. The bottle says to drink it ice-cold and I believe the reason is the sweetness becomes a bit overpowering at a temperature much above that. A bit of wheat and tart hops redeem the flavor somewhat. Still, I wouldn't recommend sipping it slowly.

This is a very good Beer. This is a very nice surprise. Wasn't sure what I was getting myself into when I grabbed this. Glad I grabbed it. If it was sold in my town I would regularly stock it.

medium golden, with a slight haziness. small but ample (i feel as though i'm talking about breasts here) head that leaves excellent lacing. big fat grainy aroma with a hair of fruitiness. ya know, i really dont detect a bit of honey in this one. fairly dry in the flavor..and i think maybe i'm beginning to understand hallertau hops.

Glassy pale golden capped with a dollop of creamy white froth. Big grainy aroma with notes of white grape, mineral, toasted pale malts, burnt honey, and softened tea leaf. Faintly hay-like with a subtle noble hop dusting. Silky carbonation. Creamy medium-light body. Subdued sweet flavors of toasted pale malts and crabapple. The slight acidic quality is quickly cut off by the sweetness. It's both doughy and floral with the noble hops lending some very subtle perfumey aspects. Finishes metallic and honeyish with lasting pale malts and a continual Hallertau tease. This is much more a Maibock than it is a Bock. Nonetheless, the Hallertaus are detectable, but no signs of Saaz. The hop and malt flavors are certainly refined, but one or the other is either overstated in the aroma or understated in the flavor dept.