Aass After Ski

Brewed by Aass Bryggeri
Style: Pale Lager
Drammen, Norway

Big offwhite head. Yellow body. Apple, malts, and butter aroma with grassy notes. Dry-sweetish buttery malty taste with grassy notes. Light-bodied. Soft, mild mouthfeel. Dryish papery grassy aftertaste. Very heavy on the paper, but still a decent enough beer. (0.33l bottle, Centra, Oslo.)

330ml bottle picked up at Fenaknoken in Oslo. Airy, white foamy head over a bright golden body. Pale malty smell with notes of fresh fruits. Hints of citrus fruits in flavour, partly overrun by notes of wet paper. Dry and sweet in the mouth. Overall an insipid stuff [at my hotel room, 16.12.2008].

Bottle. Golden colour with a white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, hay. Flavour is fruit, malt, hay. Thin body. Thin beer.

330 ml clear bottle, thanks to Ole_R. Pale yellow colour, big head. Heineken-like aroma (an American would say "skunked") - Heineken is slightly better though, hints of citrus and maize baby porridge. The flavour is slightly lemony and wheaty, and could probably be called "refreshing" if drunk colder than I did. Minimal hops. Soft and thin mouthfeel. After a long day of skiing (or other open air activities) I would want a better beer than this one, that’s for sure.

Bottle, thx to Ole_R. It pours a clear, rather pale golden body, with a small, dense head. There’s a crisp hoppy touch to the aroma, and an almost bready maltyness, which surprised me quite a lot, I expected a beer with almost no aroma. It’s grassy and grainy too, and some lemony notes. Thin on the palate with a flavor of lemon doing a fair share of the work, along with grainy malt and some grassy hops giving it a little bitterness. Sweetish towards the finish, with both lemony sourness, pale malt and a little bitterness. Sure, I can imagine the beer being a refresher in the sun after a long day in the snow, but if I have a choice, I doubt this is the one I will choose. And one more thing, I hope they’re not thinking the design will help selling the beer. Or is it just me?(080422)

330 ml bottle. Pale golden colour. Medium-sized white coarse head. Mellow malt aroma with some crisp floral hops. Rounded grainy malt flavours at first then sharp carbonation and more floral hops. Light-bodied. Finishes with a distinct drying hop bitterness. Easy-drinking lager, but there is way too much carbonation in there. The malt flavours and the hops are quite nice though.

330 ml bottle. Biggish white head with medium duration. Crystal clear, yellow golden color. Light wheaty aroma with distinct notes of artificial sweetener and lemon. Some dusty hops detected. Weak taste. Almost hopless and low on the malts. Medium sweet with notes of lemonade. Light-bodied. Dry and watery mouthfeel. Short, light sour and lemony end. Insignificant.