Aass Ice Beer

Brewed by Aass Bryggeri
Style: Pale Lager
Drammen, Norway

50 cL can, thanks to Papsoe. Pours clear and golden yellow with a lacing white head. Light sweet corn aroma. Flavour is mild sweet corn with a light bitterness. Ends light bitter into the far finish.

500 ml can. Pale golden colour. Tall fine-laced white head that clings to the glass. Lots of bubbles rising to the surface. Clean, but subdued, malt aroma. Grainy flavours, much like found in their non-alcohol Uten. Light-bodied and very clean. The graininess is appropriate as it increases the complexity of this otherwise non-complex beer. Floral hops with a decent hop bitteness. OK, but of course entirely meaningless as its other cousins.

Smallish, normal-laced white head, which subsides quite quickly. Pale copper body with some solitary bubbles floating upwards. Hardly any aroma; can faintly detect some caramel malts, but that’s it. Very faint and watery taste; only in the aftertaste can a vague malt and hop taste be detected. Very, very boring.

(Can 50 cl) Clear, pilsener golden with a white head. Sweetish, malty aroma. Fairly sweet mouthfeel, medium body with malty and lightly fruity notes. Very limited hoppiness in the finish. Quite a decent lager with lovely Emperor penguins on the can. 181106

Handsome penguin-adorned silver tin swigged in Vigeland Park. No idea what the contents looks like. Slick creamy m/f, hay, flour, discreet honeyish aroma. Clean and faint with grass and almond milkiness, some clinging....erm, hop? Bitterness, anyway. Not digging the slushy fat feel of this at all. Watery, nitrogenous, but generally so inoffensive it’s barely there..

Can in Oslo. Bonus points for the cool penguin label. Another lager, not much that sets this apart besides wanting to be served ICE cold. Sweet, malty taste.

Another one to forget. It’s not bad. It’s not good. Almost no taste at all.

Can: Light yellow colour, with a nive big head. Aroma of mild hopy nose,with a mild anonymius maltynes. Water mouth feeling,Thin body, and short finish.