 Ole_R (1167), Oslo, Norway
Jul 17, 2008
330 ml bottle. Nice apperance. Big airy near-white head. Clear, deep golden color. A sweetish grainy aroma up front, a scent of vegs, dough and dusty hops to go. Taste is bready, sour-sweet, with a modest, earthy hopbitterness, and some sugar-fruity tones in the background. Light to medium body. Grainy, light bitter finish. Almost decent.
KnutAlbert (2163), Oslo, Norway
Aug 14, 2008 It looks like they want to push this as a premium beer. "Lagered for 50 days", according to the label. Like the Danish "classic" pilseners, a little more caramel malt, and actually more taste, too. There are hints of the usual Grans’ cardboard, but there is actually both a decent malty body and a little crisp bitterness here. There is, indeed, hope for everyone!
Finn (1072), Tromsø, Norway
Aug 10, 2008 Bottle 0,33l. Golden colored. A shortlived fluffy head. Bubbling. Sweet perfumed aroma. Flavor with hint of prunes. Some bitterness in the aftertaste. Unvaried and uninteresting.
Sigmund (1896), Hafrsfjord, Norway
Aug 1, 2008 330 ml green bottle, from REMA 1000. ABV is 4.7%. Clear brown colour, decent off-white head. Unpleasant "industrial" rubbery aroma, some malts and caramel but also some of the sickly "boiled" notes (over-cooked vegetables, baby porridge) that you normally find in n/a beers. The flavour has some caramel, but is otherwise very bland and boring with minimal hops and a "dead" and slightly metallic finish. In a blind test I would probably have guessed that this was a "malty" variety in Ringnes’ n/a Munkholm range. Grans are obviously persistent in their aim to brew only beers that belong in the "soggy bottom" end of the Norwegian beer market.
larsga (2132), Oslo, Norway
Jul 30, 2008 Medium offwhite head. Amber body with vigorous carbonation. Roasty buttery malts aroma with the characteristic grainy, rubbery Grans notes as well as grassy toffee traces. Dry-sweet grainy grassy taste with roasty malty notes and some dried fruit. Light, soft mouthfeel. Dry-acidic grainy aftertaste. Clean palate, and yet some vaguely disturbing acidic-grainy notes. Obviously the best Grans so far, but still not very good. (0.33l bottle, Rema 1000, Oslo.)
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