Nøgne Ø Underlig Jul

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

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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2013.03.02 - Nogne Peculiar Yule - 500ml bottle in pint glass. (Vintage). Aroma: What it is, a Christmas ale. Spices, evergreen... Appearance: Pours around 33 on SRM scale. Opaque deep brown mahogany without being all dark or black. Reasonable off white head/carbonation settles to bubbly ring and slick. Taste: Christmas spices, cinnamon, a bit of evergreen, a bit if vegetable. Maybe a trace if ginger. Possibly inhabiting the same ballpark as Bruery 4 Calling Birds. Palate/Mouthfeel: Fairly medium heavy creaminess given that it is not a very high abv at 6.5%. Aroma 5/10, Appearance 4/5, Taste 6/10, Palate 3/5, Overall 14/20

50 cL bottle from the LCBO, served in a goblet. Pours hazy mahogany with a moderate, tan head that fades slowly to a thin cover and leaves a moderate amount of fine lace. On the nose, there are big notes of cloves, ginger and cinnamon, along with coriander and cardamom. Toasted malts linger in the background, with a subtle hop accent. The flavour is lightly sweet with toasted malts along with a huge Christmas spice component from the nose. The finish is long and spicy, with a caramelly note. On the palate, it is full in body with a smooth, creamy texture and soft carbonation. Overall, this is a nice Christmas brew; it has all the requisite spices, but also a nice malt profile. Well done. 2012-12-20

Quite funky taste for a beer. Really fruity, and hints of christmas spices, will go great to christmas biscuits and nuts, but not quite that drinkable all alone. . Dry finish with medium body. Not my cup of beer.

500ml bottle from the lcbo The aroma is spice and perfume The taste is the same perfume and spice not my cupof tea

Dark brown with a airy mocha head. Aroma is christmas in a glass, orange, spices, cinnamon, "pepparkaka", tree, raisins, "glöggig". Taste: slightly bitter and some nice caramel sweetness in there, noes of spices, oranges, pinetree, gingerbread, etc. A nice christmas beer for sure! 2011 bottle

Really nice taste and aroma, this is a good thing to drink. [short review due to it coming from my backlog]

Aroma is of sweet glögg, sweet and spicy. Taste was dryer than I expected. I think the cardamom is a tad dominating. Pleasant enough, it would have been great with something sweet. Like a carrot cake.

Up until recently the most remarkable beer I have ever consumer as Sunturnbrew. It sat as the best beer I have ever tasted with a score at around 4.7. I could not picture a better beer until Westvleteren came along and then it did. I was spell-bound. I bought a bottle and am leaving it to mature and I will see what happens in a year or so. This one reeks of the same producer, but nowhere near the same method. Purplish, tawny port colour and I wish I knew how they did that, Mocha head that sat on top of the beer and then buggered off. Aromas of cloves, plum, currant, mace, garam masala, aniseed, cherry-vite, medicinal tinctures and all sorts of things that ought not to be consumed by themselves. Give me a taste and it was as if I was not suppose to open the package: it was someone else’s medication. Pungent, numbing and strong. I have but few regrets about this beer: I am not drunk, I am spellbound by the taste and I am not moved to like it terribly much as I did the Sunturnbrew. For a beer that ought to rock the world, I swoon and forget about its lead singer before I smell bacon and eggs for brekkers.

Draught at Rake. Gingerbread in a glass. Dark not much head, spicy/piney initial taste then gingerbread throughout. Quite pleasant.

Flaska från Systembolaget . Vacker mörkbrun färg. Härlig arom av nejlika och kanel men smakar mest som kall glögg. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone