Aass Jubeløl (Jubileum 175 år)

Brewed by Aass Bryggeri
Style: Vienna
Drammen, Norway

Can. A dark amber beer with a lazing light tan head. The aroma has notes of caramel, malt, and some over ripe fruits. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, caramel, metal, and a bit of nuts, leading to a dry metallic finish. Thanks Papsoe for sharing.

Can 50 cl. Courtesy of yngwie. Pours a clear amber with an off-white head. Sweet caramel aroma. Medium body, sweet roasted malts and a litle burned caramel. Hardly any bitterness. 091109

50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden orange with a small light tan head. Aroma is malty and sligh roasted. Dry and malty flavoured. Light sweetness. Lingering malty finish.

Clear amber with a large beige head. Sweet aroma with toasted malt, caramel and mild hoppy notes. Flavour had grassy hops, toasted malt and caramel notes. Finished bitter.

Can. It pours a clear, dark golden body with two fingers of off-white, lasting head. Caramel-sweetish nose with some hops in the background, giving a fruity touch. Sweet, caramel flavor with some hoppy bitterness, but not much. A little too gazzy I think, but with good fullness. Medium lenght finish with the same flavors found initially. It’s a quite decent beer, and for the regular Aass drinkers I bet it’s borderline too much. If it was me, I wouldn’t be proud to make a mediocre beer for my 175th anniversary, even though it’s flawless. Yes, it’s sort of tasteful, but only in comparison to a pale lager. Actually it’s rather one dimensional. Wouldn’t have much trouble downing a few though. (090407)

Can . Dark golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is fruit, malt, caramel. Flavour is fruit, malt, caramel, hop. Medium body. OK beer, but also a little bit boring.

Canned. Nice dark color, candyfloss head. Decent malty body, but the hops probably had a day off when they brewed this one. Short finish. A puzzling design flaw - the can does not clearly say the name of the beer . I doubt this will survive 2009.

Big offwhite shiny head. Reddish amber body with carbonation. Papery rubbery aroma with fruit and pepper notes. Strange. Sweetish-dryish papery caramel taste with watery dusty fruity strawberry notes. Slick, watery mouthfeel. Thinnish body. Boring, not very good. Feels like they forgot to add hops. (0.5l can, Centra, Oslo.)