Fur Ale

Brewed by Fur Bryghus
Style: Premium Bitter/ESB
Fur, Denmark

Nice hoppy ale, with a smooth palate - not too flat though. Better than the ipa from the same brewery, but not very different.

medium sweetness, medium bitterness, medium body, average carbonation, bitter,

Darker orange beer, quite carbonated; creamy, yellowish-orange head. Mainly hoppy nose, European (noble) & British hops, fresh-smelling. Markedly sourish edge around non-sweet but malty beer. Hopcharacter from the nose all but gone. Citrus - alas in the way a cleaning fluid is ’citrused’ - cardemom, capers, but restrained of course. Rather dry finish. Medium bodied at best; some acids, strengthened by the carbonation. In the aftertaste, some hops return, but no bitterness. Rather pleasing beer, but I frankly doubt if the sourishness is intended. Still, if this doesn’t intensify with age, it’s quite OK with me.

Bottle. White creamy high and good looking head. Clear golden body. Lovely barley malt aroma with a touch of grass and caramel. Mild and well rounded barley malt flavor with a fair amount of bitterness and a long and dry aftertaste.

Deep golden colour, decent head. Moderate aroma with some malts and fruity aromatic hops. Dryish and medium bodied with some melon and evident caramelly crystal malt flavour. Too clean mouthfeel.

500 ml bottle, bought in Hvide Sande, Denmark. Deep golden colour, decent head. Moderate aroma with some malts and fruity aromatic hops. Flavour has some decent hops and notes of toffee, bitter finish. This is an okay premium bitter in my book, but not really outstanding. Like all beers from Fur Bryghus, it is overpriced.

Orange colour. Nice acidicly hoppy aroma. Flavour is fruity with an acidic and fairly long bitter finish. Very soft mouthfeel.

Fruity malt and flowery hops. Subtle rather than strong, but the finish is nice and bitter from the hops. A little yeast in the aftertaste. A very good ale, one o the best from the new wave of Danish micros.