Grebbestad Jul-Öl

Bottle. Clear orange coloured with a medium sized off white head. Sweet aroma of caramel, burnt sugar, dried fruits and metal. Sweet flavour of caramel, dried fruits, burnt sugar and hops. Hoppy finish.

500 ml bottle. Mahogany with a ruby red hue. Medium-sized light beige fine-laced head that clings to the glass. Nutty aroma with a lot of chocolate. Very mellow aroma. Licorice flavours. Bready ye flavours, much reminiscent of kvass. Distinct hop bitterness that feels sharp and metallic initially, but blends into the soft flavours. A little watery in the finish. Interesting Christmas beer, and quite unlike any other I’ve had. In all it reminds of a kvass.

Bottle 50cl.
Clear medium brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, bread, roasted, old malt, brown sugar. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20081122]

04.01.2009, 0,5l Bottle. The colour is dark brown with a light brown head. Lively carbonated. Body is a little thin. Aroma is malty and a little sweet.

Biggish light brown shiny head. Deep dark red translucent body. Fruity vanilla fudge aroma, mellow and harmonic. Dry roasty buttery vanilla fudge taste with fruity caramel notes. Mid-bodied. Dry fruity metallic roasty aftertaste. Fruityness clashes with the metal, and really spoils it for me. (0.5l bottle, Systembolaget, Charlottenberg.)

Clear dark burgundy with a medium beige head. Somewhat sweet aroma with roasted malt, choclate, hops and caramel notes. Flavour had plenty of roasted malt and chocolate and caramel notes. Finished sweet. Not bad.

Bottle 081129. Faint aroma mainly of raisins with some vanilla-ish sweet malt. Soft velvety mouthfeel with caramel and some raisin notes.

Bottle. Dark copper/brown, medium head. Malty coffee smell, Dry roasted taste. Quite watery and ultimately forgettable.