Aass After Ski

Brewed by Aass Bryggeri
Style: Pale Lager
Drammen, Norway

Bottle. Fluffy head, probably due to the wheat malt. Some soft wheat character, a little citrus, more orange than lemon. Refreshing, quite all right, should be fine after a long day on the slopes.

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.)

33 cL bottle with almost no head. MIld citrusy and slight grassy aroma. Dry, grassy and carboardish and slight acidic flavoured. Mild bitter and acidic finish.

08.03.2009, 0,33l Bottle. The colour is clear yellow. white head. Aroma is wheat and malt. Round and nice taste. There is almost no bitterness. Weak aftertaste. Refreshing afterski beer!

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of yngwie. Clear yellow with a white head. Some maltiness in the nose. Rather thin and watery with dry malty notes. No real hops to be found. 210309

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 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)