Nøgne Ø / Jolly Pumpkin/Stone Special Holiday Ale

Brewed by Nøgne Ø
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Grimstad, Norway

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Refrigerated 0.5 L brown bottle poured into a shaker. Pours dark brown with small off-white head which dissapates quickly. Little lacing, medium body, super silky texture, and spruce aroma. Taste is complex: roasty, spruce, sage, salty, chestnuts, and a hint of anise. Different, interesting, alcohol is well covered, but I would not make this a go to brew. No spruce.

This great beer was from the bottle sharing at Dark Lord Day in Munster, Indiana. It plopped into my glass a near black with a big tan head. Nose of roasted malts and spices with spruce most dominate . Full body. Good rich mouthfeel .Flavor was really rich with chocolate and spruce again. Quite a beer.

Sampled at DLD 2013. It poured a dark coffee brown color with a dark head. The aroma was of licorice and spruce, with taste was the same. There was some dark unsweetened chocolate on the palate, but that was overpowered by the spruce. Great stuff.

shared by glubgonzo and/or inbreak , at rampkrot. pours brown, very small white foam . smell is reraly sweet, grainy. soft carbo , sugary , sweet. sligthly medicinal .

Sample from 50cl bottle apparrently courtesy of ClubGonzo & Inbreak@kraddel’s Post TdGeuze tasting 04/2013. Some alcohol in the nose. Pumpkin turned into fruity acidity. Mustiness. Sweetened vegetable broth, but balanced broth. ¿Que?

22/IV/13 - 50cl bottle @ Rampkrot (Deurne) - brewed: 18/X/12 - BB: 18/X/16 - batch: 875 (2013-362) Thanks to Clubgonzo & Inbreak for sharing the bottle!

Little cloudy red orange beer, small beige head, unstable, bit adhesive. Aroma: funky, lots of spices, cloves, aniseed, yeasty, nutmeg impressions. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very spicy, caramel, bitter hops, lots of spices, bit bready. Aftertaste: spicy, lots of spices, cloves, aniseed, bit sourish, caramel, overripe fruits. It’s ok, I guess.

50cl bottle courtesy of ClubGonzo & Inbreak @ Post Toer de Geuze tasting. Fresh. BB 18-10-2016 Orangée-cuivrée, col fin beige. Arôme présente ce bouquet sympa d’épice de saison, malt-caramel suivi d’un léger malté caramel. Palais est malté avec ce palais épices rappelant le gingerbread-pain d’épices et baies de genévrier. L’ajout noisette ajoute une certaine complexité et note terreuse de farine de noisette qui se mélange au malté. Palais est épais, caramel avec ce profil épice qui reste en fin de bouche.

Thx to ClubGonzo & Inbreak. 50 cl. bottle sampled. Bottle on 19//10/2012. Dark, light brown amber, little to no white head. Nose is mint, light medicinal, maybe vegetable / pumpkin, bitter medicinal herbs,… Taste is caramel, toffee, light herbs, minty, light burned, light medicinal, light cough syrup, sweet liquorish, burned sugar,… Lightly fizzy carb. Quite odd and not what expected.

Bottle. Pours darkest brown with tan head. Sage, cola, toffee amd molasses aroma. Taste of toffee, treacle, mollasses, spices and sage. Thick and sweet. Bit of an odd sage and cola party. Can’t say I dig this.

500ml bottle. Pours an opaque deep chestnut, with a small beige head, which lasts reasonably well, but does not leave that much lacing. There is a pronounced gin-like aroma, mingled with roasted chestnuts, carraway and the faintest hint of rye bread malt. Sage is the initial flavour, with some peppery hops coming in. A touch of carraway and strong juniper lead into a blend of chestnut and roasty malt in the mid-palate. More juniper, chestnuts and bittersweet chocolate malt create the finish, and there is a gin aftertaste. This is definitely one of the stranger beers I have had for a while. Bizarrely it all works fairly well, despite its odd range of ingredients. The sage and carraway complement the hops, and the chestnuts work brilliantly with the dark, bittersweet malt flavours. The juniper is, however, a little too strong; it dominates proceedings a little. On the whole, though, this is a weird but enjoyable beer.