Nørrebro North Bridge Extreme

Brewed by Nørrebro Bryghus
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
København, Denmark

A clear dark red beer with a lasting light orange whipped cream head. The aroma is great hoppy - is it Northern Brewer? combined with alcohol, peach, oil, and caramel. The flavor is great too, with loads of hops and notes of alcohol, oil, grass, and peach before it end with a sharpness from the hops. The bitter bite on the tongue lasts for a long time.

(On tap) Deep amber colour, clear and filtered with a light brown head. Extreme bitterness from the loads of hops used here - my tongue feels numb after having this beer, and I presume I’ll be able to taste this the whole evening, probably the whole night too. It’s a great tasting beer, but the hops kills it’s more subtle features. Probably every hophead’s delight - but I’m more a malt person. 101004

Sampled draught at the brewpub. Clear dark amber,lively head. Rich hop aroma with grapefruit and lychee. The massive hoppiness is balanced by a generous amount of biscuity hops. This is a typical Southern California style one-track mega hop killer ale, and Nørrebro really manages to excel in this class. While for instance the smokey schwarz cannot compete to the Bamberg beers this beer would stand a comparison to the finest US microbrwes well.

Draught at brewpub (40 cL). Clear golden brown colour with white head. Fantastic flowery and hoppy smell. Complex taste of primarily hops. Aftertaste kicks in after a few seconds and blows you away - extremely bitter and long lasting - WOW.

Blind tasting of an almost one year old handbottle from tap, same batch as reviewed above, thanks to Papsoe. Pours golden copper, clear, with a lacing head. Heavy hoppy aroma, with a little caramel note. Flavour is heavy hoppy and with nice malt base. Clean hoppy flavour. Decent bitterness, interesting aging. 8-4-8-4-16

From tap at Ølbaren. Pours dark golden orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is solid pinewood hoppy and mild orange to citrusy fruity too. Smoothhopsjuice fruity, nice caramelish and light sticky flavoured. Lovely wooden hops profile coming up from back of the nose. Sweet and solid bitter finish.8-4-9-4-17=4.2

Draught @ Københavnske Øldage 2007 in Copenhagen. Clear medium amber color with a small fizzy fair lacing off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel,heavy hoppy, alcohol, spices. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texure is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light alcoholic.

Draught. Brilliant aroma of hops and melted sugars. Very nice alcohol flavour, but could use more hop flavour. Nice, bitter finish.

Hand bottled Dec 19th 2006 (thanks Papsoe!). Amber colour with small beige head. Aroma is big time flowery hops with some salted licorace, caramel . freshly cut wood and spices. Flavour is wooden (coniferous woods), grassy, fruity hoppy and some salted licorace lurking in the background. Extremely wellbalanced brew, and one of the best IIPAs I have had. Doesn’t show almost any alcohol at all.

Indeed extreme. This beer has an orange colour with a small, but lasting white head. Nice aroma of malt, plums, caramel and a bit of hops. First the taste is quite sweet, almost like Nørrebro Bryghus’ barley wine – little korkney ale, with notes of caramel and plums. The taste finishes with an extreme bitterness, which lasts for hours.