Rørvig Bitter Ale

Brewed by Rørvig Bryghus
Style: English Strong Ale
Rørvig, Denmark

Pours a clearish orange with a big off-white head. Slightly soapy smell. Quite bitter with aromas of soap. This one might be bitter as an IPA but it should have much more hopsaromas to balance the bitterness. Very bitter finish.

0.5 l bottle, thanks Timo A! Slightly hazy amber color. Sweet, fruity, perfumed, yeasty, caramelly and nutty aroma with sweaty hops. Toasty, nutty and berryish flavor with fruity-yeasty bitterness. Unpleasantly yeasty.

Bottle. Hazy brown colour with a white head. Aroma and flavour of fruit, malt and hops with a bitter finish.

Bottle in Sune’s Sommerhus. Clear amber - white head. soapy aroma. Grassy, grape fruity, toasted, medium hoppy, light malty, vegetables, light sour/infected, caramel, a bit wierd.

Bottle. Creamy white excellent mostly lasting head. Dark yellow colour. Light malty and hoppy very sour aroma. Sour moderate bitter flavor.Average finish. Oily palate. Strange mesy sour not infected beer.

nice sweetness, okay bitterness. but still quite weak for an ipa. something odd with the carbonation.

Hazy amber with huge off white head. Hoppy aroma with caramel notes. Hoppy and mild infected flavor. Ends bitter.

More like an dark IPA than a bitter... And a very bitter and astringent one indeed! Reminds me of the XX Bitter from De Ranke. The bottle doesn’t mention which bitter hops have been used, but there sure’s a lot of it. But the malty body gives the bitterness something to hold on to. A nice experience!