Slottskällans Nisse

Brewed by Slottskällans Bryggeri
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Uppsala, Sweden

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Dark, malty, bready and almost yeasty. Spicy as well. Not as much sweetness as theese kinds of christmas beers usually have. There is a fine bitterness in the finnish along with a warming sense of alcohol. A bit thin.

500ml bottle. Deep, copper brown body with declining beige foam. Momentary aroma of anise and caramel. Sweet malty and dried fruity notes in taste. A bit smokey. Highly carbonated and rather anonymous for a julöl (Nordic Sea, Stockholm, 01.12.2006).

Amber color with an off-white foam. Unmalted barley and malty tones. Light body with a barleysweet finish. Terrible !

Bottle. Clear amber colour with a small fast disappearing off-white head. Malty caramel aroma with some hoppy hints. Sweet malty caramel flavor. Dry malty finish with a bitter aftertaste.

Pours red/brown. Wet malt and grain in aroma. Lingonberries. Dark sour bread and green pees. Discusting grainy taste with a light body.

UPDATED: NOV 24, 2006 Aroma: bitter, old-fashioned, soap, sourish, cloves, julmust, Seville orange, worty. Appearance: lingon & brown, pretty light, appetizing. Brown beige head. Flavor: mm, some cocoa, malty, ginger, some sweetness, thin but complex. Palate: fooddesigned, no dessert beer. But it is what it should be!

Bottled. Brown with a medium sized head. A bit too thin and sterile. Malty and notes of christmass spices.

UPDATED: NOV 19, 2006 First rating.
Draught at Bishops Arms (Avenyn) in Gothenburg, Sweden. December 2005.
Pretty boring for a Christmas beer. Nice dark color, but thin body, lacking in scent and flavor.
6/4/5/3/10=2.8

Second rating.
(50 cl bottle from SWedish Systembolaget).
Very sweet grainy sticky, too damn sweet, scent. Clear dark brown color, tan head. Unfermented wort mixed with raw grain. Thin, grainy yogurt, burnt taste. Thin mouthfeel. Very unpleasant, almost like I want to puke. Disgusting! My mouth feels raped! Never sell or brew this again, at least not like this! And above all to the rest, don’t drink it.

UPDATED: DEC 13, 2005 Keg @ Akkurat, Stockholm
Lots of ginger cookies (pepparkakor, in Swedish - a traditional x-mas cookie) in both aroma and taste. Rather thin body with lots of CO2. Some butterscotch taste and low on bitterness. Low to no aftertaste.

Bottle. Frothy good mostly deminishing head, nice dark amber colour. Sweet malty aroma with touch of orange. Desent flavour bur short watery finish and mouthfeel.