Oppigårds Spring Ale
A 330ml bottle, 4,6%, best before 2009 06, tasted at 2009 04 25.
Pores a white head, that laces nicely, and a golden amber body.
A fresh hoppy and citrus aroma arises from this brew.
The taste follows along the same lines fresh, hoppy, citrus and pine.
A refreshing session ale, not heavy, but with more enouth to make it worth while. 3.7 /5
Nils Oscar Barley Wine
Bottle 330 ml, best before 2014 03, tasted at 2008 01 13.
Light golden red coloured body, the white head dissipates quickly.
A sweet, fruity aroma.
The taste is also sweet and fruity, light bitterness, some alcohol but not disturbingly so. Overall the beer is light for it’s style.
It will be interesting to see(taste) what a couple of years will do to this beer.
3,4
Black Jack Porter from Left Hand
335 ml Bottle
Pours a dark brown almost orange color or reddish mahogany, with a small head.
Light aroma of chocolate.
A nice chocolate taste, width some sweetness and roasted malt, a bitter and dry finish.
A nice beer, a bit light for a porter, but very drinkable.
Morlands Hens Tooth
Pours with a big head that dissipates slowly, a nice amber body sits under the head.
Aroma of hops, yeast, and some fruit and spices.
The sweet malty tastes all but cancels outs the bitter hop, but at the same time both are still present. It finishes with dry hop, light bitterness.
A bit to much carbonation for my taste, but not a bad beer.
St. Bernardus Pater 6
December 12, 2007 at Bishops arms in Gävle, 330 ml bottle.
Pours deep amber with a tan head that laces beautifully.
Aroma of fruits and calramel with malt mixed in and some hints of chocolate.
The taste are much the same as the aroma, fruity and sweet with chocolate lurking in the background.
While not as superb as its big brothers, but still a very nice beer.
Jämtlands Hell
November 7, 2007 at Bishops arms in Gävle, 500 ml bottle.
Pours cloudy amber with a head that laces nicely.
Not much aroma at first, but it gets better increasingly more hops and straw.
Sweet malt to start of with the bitterness from the hops following up big time. Finishing with semi dry bitterness.
A nice beer, if only the other Swedish lagers could be this good.
Anchor Our Special Ale 2007
This years brew of Anchor’s special ale, greets the eye with a deep clear mahogany body topped by a light brown head, witch lances nicely.
The nose is greeted by spices, Christmas ones are most prominent, cinnamon the most so. Roasted coffee hides in the back.
The taste buds are treated to the same spices as the nos, but not to the same degree. The malt is fare more friendly now, adding flavors of roasted coffee. The spices retreat even more but are still there, the hops steps up to fill the emptiness, adding a lite bitterness towards the end. The finish is dry and dominated by roasted coffee and light bitterness.
The mouthfeel is kind of light, for a winter ale, just below average, i think.
Overall good beer, a bit to special for some, but I like it.
Jämtlands Heaven
A nice locking beer deep brown/red almost black colored body with a light brown head.
The nose pickup roasted malt and light hops, flowery.
Taste of malt, roasted and chocolate flavors, followed by herbal bitterness of the hops, and at the very end, lingering dry bitterness with hints of roasted coffee.
A bit aggressive, but, jet fairly well balanced.
A nice beer, to bad its no longer available at any of my local systembolaget shops, I think this beer deserves shelf space.
A solid 4
On tap at Bishops arms in gävle, on November 28, 2007.
Pours deep mahogany colored body with a light brown creamy head.
The aroma is dominated by smoke, both smoked food and wood smoke with the former more noticeably.
The taste is for malt but above all else smoke both the food kind and the wood kind.
The finish is long, dry and smoky.
A solid rating of 4.
A nice beer, can’t wait to try the other beers from Närke.
A dark amber colored body with a small head, nice lace, generally nice locking.
Aroma of light malt and some citrus
Malty flavored by hops and some dry bitterness finishing up
Mouthful is medium
Overall a nicely balanced beer, not spectacular, but definitely drinkable.
The verdict: 3.2
Tested on November 2, 2007
