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

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RATINGS: 740   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.82   SEASONAL: Winter   IBU: 19   EST. CALORIES: 255   ABV: 8.5%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
In the US this is called "Winter Ale".

A dark ale brewed specially for the Christmas season, with a rich, complex taste of caramel. This is a strong, dark and rather sweet Christmas Beer – just the way we think a Christmas beer should be.

Recommended serving temperature 12°C/53°F. Great with cheese or nuts. Ingredients: Lager, Munich, caramel, black, and chocolate malt; Chinook, Columbus, and Centennial hops; English ale yeast, and our local Grimstad water.

19°P, 30 IBU, 8.5 % ABV.



3.8
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
TreborWhip (297) - Reading, Pennsylvania, USA - MAR 18, 2011
Bottle pours a murky black with small brown head. Aroma of coffee and toasted malts. Flavors are molasses, coffee, chocolate, and black licorice.

3.8
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
Mjollnir (322) - Canberra, AUSTRALIA - DEC 23, 2011
500mL bottle. Pours thick opaque dark brown with a bit of suspended sediment and a dense tan head. Aromas of molasses, chocolate, coffee, wood and some alcohol. Medium sweetness and bitterness, roasty with a little smoke. Full bodied, soft carbonation, fairly slick with a burnt bitter and slightly astringent finish.

3.8
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
grapengrain (125) - Havelock North, NEW ZEALAND - MAY 26, 2010
Delicious – rich, malty and hoppy but warm and mellow. A very in-sync if huge brew… E

3.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
Benjii (1686) - Edinburgh, SCOTLAND - OCT 23, 2011
In bottle at The BrewDog Bar, Edinburgh. A black beer with a thick, light tan head. Aroma of Ovaltine, coffee, caramel and chocolate. Quite smoky overall with flavours of chocolate and caramel again. Lingering tar and smoke with an oily mouth-feel and mild carbonation. OK, surprisingly smoky.

3.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
DutchDrebus (1112) - Oirschot, NETHERLANDS - JUN 21, 2011
Pretty dark beer, hard to look through. Bit sweet, caramel in the smell and taste. Pretty hoppy also. Good winterbeer.

3.8
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
Rasmus40 (3016) - Beder, Aarhus, DENMARK - FEB 1, 2011
Very dark brown with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, heavy malty, roasted malt, dried fruit, spicy and hoppy. Flavor is very sweet and light bitter. Too spicy. 121210

3.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 15/20
ABS (142) - NORWAY - NOV 1, 2011
Today, Christmas beers over 4,75 ABV were released at Vinmonopolet. I checked their website from work in the morning, comfirming that only one of the stores nearby had this beer in stock. 48 bottles to be precise. Knowing that these beers disappear quickly, I felt kind of nervous leaving work at four pm in the afternoon, an hour before the store closed. And rightly so - out of those 48 bottles, only one remained. And that beer is in my glass now! Merry Christmas!

3.8
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
bmerz (108) - New York, USA - DEC 16, 2011
Dark red ale with great viscous lacing and a nice initial head. Very full and complex aromoa mostly of spice, malt, alcohol, and dark bitter chocolate. Flavor is malty toffee sweet the spicy, and of bitters like in a good Manhattan. Really well put together.


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