Ölands Tokens Clusterbomb

Bottle at Nya Tröls, Malmö. Hazy orange coloured with a medium sized off white head. Fruity and hoppy aroma of pine needles and grass. Fruity flavour of hops and pine needles with some sweetness and notes of grass and yeast. Dry hoppy finish.

This was weird! Not what I’ve expected since I knew this should be a India Pale Ale. Aroma of banana (!); it feels very weissbier-like when I smell the beer. The taste is of banana/wheat-like notes and a spicy, almost perfume-like hop flavour in a weird way. It’s interesting and feels like a mix of wheat beer and a IPA. Good, but I almost thought that something was wrong first. Nice and fun that Ölands is experimenting though.

Firm light brown foam that lingers as long as the beer lasts. Rather dark brown but not compleatly clear. Freach hops (not citrus) but also hints of rubber. Full bodied with a long nice bitterness that ain’t big but balanced. This beer has big drinkabillity.

Bottle. BBE 2009-04-10. Pours murky brown to dark red. Very much sediment. Phenolic aroma. Smoky. Slightly herbal and spicy. Floral. Medium body. Nice spicy bitterness all the way through. High carbonation. Nice spiciness with herbal and floral edge finishing quite prickly with licorice. Pity about the phenols, otherwise this is very nice.

Draught at The Rover. Hazy amber with a creamy, tan head. Some grassy citrus, licorice and salmiak. Very bitter and dry finish.