Søgaard Loa

Brewed by Søgaards Bryghus
Style: Dunkel/Tmavý
Aalborg, Denmark

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Draught @ Brewery Pub, Aalborg. Clear light amber color with a average fair lacing off-white head. Aroma is light to moderate malty, caramel, light hoppy. flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft, finish feel is light metalic.

A hazy amber beer with a fluffy orange head. The aroma is acidic combined with notes of fust and fruit. The flavor is acidic with notes of wood dusty, fruit, malt, and stored fruits, leading to an acidic end.
Earlier Rating: 11/20/2005 Total Score: 2.5
A hazy orange beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with light notes of caramel, while the flavor has notes of straw, herbs, and caramel. But the body is thin.

50 cL bottle. Pours hazy and deep orange with a dense off-white head. Dry munich malt aroma with a mild fruity note. Flavour is breadish malty, mild sweetend and with a solid bitterness. Long lasting finish. Good.

UPDATED: MAY 21, 2007 (Bottle 50 cl) As "Søgaard Loa". Slightly hazy, amber golden with basically no head. Lightly sweet malt aroma. Medium-bodied with notes of caramel and overripe fruit. A fairly solid hoppiness in the finish. Rather heavy carbonation. Not ugly or unpleasant as such - but not much of a Dunkel. 151206

(On tap) As "Søgaard Naverbryg". Amber coloured, slightly hazy with a small, creamy, off-white head. Somewhat caramellish, roasted flavour. Thin-bodied with a solid hop-bite in the finish. Score 2.7 250605

Bottled. Amber colour, white mediumsized creamy head. Aroma is grain, fruit, grass and quite mild and weak. Flavour is fruity and flowery hops along with caramel and some earth.

Draught at Københavnske Øldage. Amber colour, minimal head. Sweet, roasty and nutty. Medium bodied with notes of lingonberries. Lightly piney/resiny finish with medium bitterness.
Earlier Rating: 4/10/2006 Total Score: 2.9
[Re-rate: Draught at Købehavnske Øldage] Cloudy amber, creamy head. Caramelly and buttery, fairly sweet. No trace of the earlier infection. Medium bodied, gentle malty finish. Old rating 2006-04 - Bottled. Cloudy orange/amber. Infected acidic apple aroma. Medium bodied with soft mouthfeel. Fruity, but infection kills every possible flavour, rendering the beer to be near undrinkable (1-2-1-1-3 = 0.8).

Bottle. Cloudy amber coloured with a white head. Aroma of malts and caramel. Flavour of malts, caramel and hops.
Earlier Rating: 11/6/2005 Total Score: 3
Draft at the brewpub. Amber coloured with a white head. Aroma of malts, caramel and hops. Flavour of malts and hops. Bitter hoppy finish.

Bottle @ chriso’s Pre-GBBF Shindig 2008. Pours a clear golden color with a small off-white head. Has a sweetish malty and slightly fruity caramel aroma. Sweetish malty fruity caramel flavor. Has a sweetish malty fruity caramel finish.

Red browny with disappearing white head. Pilsner and caramel malts. The aroma is hard to smell/feel. The finsih is very short and easy bitter! Very weak!

<i>Draught at the brewpub in Aalborg</i>
Hazy amber color. It’s quite perfumy, with honey, Saaz, also some cereals; it has a strong, dry, caramel flavor and a powerful hopping, quite aromatic, with some resins and fruitness. The final is a bit too bitter and harsh, strong, but not wrapping. Rough but pleasant.