Nøgne Ø God Jul

Brewed by Nøgne Ø
Style: American Strong Ale
Grimstad, Norway

Serve in Snifter, Trappist glass

Bottle. Pours a dark brown body with a tan head. Dark fruits, caramel, spices, alcohol latent fruit. Vanilla and coffee to finish.

Wow was this different from what I was expecting. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Taste is all roasted toffee and sweet candied fruits with a hefty hearty coffee backbone. Burnt coffee. Completely shocked by this one. Hoppy sweet coffee and toffee and plums and pears and banana...too complex to list. Just fantastic. Taste is remarkably similar to Hair of the Dog’s Adam.

Poured a dark brown with a light tan head. Aroma of chocolate, malt, some fruit, and hints pine hops. Taste was mostly of malt with hints of chocolate and spice. Finished with hints of hops, coffee, and fruit. Very smoothe.

Poured from a 500ml bottle labeled as Winter Ale and served in a snifter. This beer poured muddy dark brown with some caramel highlights and a thick, lasting cap of tan foam. Excellent lacing. Looks delicious sitting in the snifter. The aroma consisted of cocoa, raisins, plums, and some light hoppy citrus notes. The flavor was rich and malty and included caramel, chocolate, pine, oranges, and also some dark fruits. Tons of flavor going on here. Layered and complex. The mouthfeel was full-bodied and had a moderate amount of aggressive carbonation. Malty and full of American hops. A well executed winter warmer.

Dark, with a big foamy brown head. Deep aroma of licorice and sweet malts. Creamy flavor with bitter notes of the hops used. Roasted but balanced and a good level of carbonation. More malty on the finish, even a bit sweet too.

pours a jet foamy black with a medium size foamy khaki head, some lacing too. smell is of dark fruit, cocoa, spice, and a whiff of caramel. taste is smooth, chocolate, some spice, coffee, some caramel, a little licorice, sweetness is hiding in the back. overall very stoutish

Bottle. Pours a dark, opaque brown, almost black. A sizable beige head lingers and leaves plenty of sticky suds on the glass wall. Aroma is fruity, citrus, dark fruits, chocolate, herbal spices and some smoke. Nice. Initially sweet, with loads of sweet fruits and spicy notes, with a solid citric and herbal hop finish. The 09 batches are perhaps a bit too fresh still. A tad too aggressively hopped. Will rerate with a 08 bottle later on. Thick and full bodied, with smooth carbonation. Very good.

Pours deep black with thin tan head. Wonderful nose of dark chocolate, vanilla and alcohol. Flavor is coffee, chocolate, and a touch of smoke. Very nice.