Grebbestad Koster 3.5%

Brewed by Grebbestad Bryggeri
Style: Pale Lager
Grebbestad, Sweden

A light golden beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of straw and honey. The flavor is sweet malty with a dry bitter and cardboardy finish. The body is no wonder thin.

(Bottle 33 cl) Clear golden with a white head. Malty aroma with a whiff of flowers. Thin and watery, hints of malt and cardboard with basically no bitterness. 180908

Bottled. Hazy pale yellow, creamy head. Light dough aroma. Dryish and light bodied with some metal and light notes of grass and bread. Low-medium bitterness. Anonymous but decent.

Bottle, 3.5%. Slightly spicy aroma. Golden colour, white head. The flavour is not spicy as the aroma suggests. It has some flavour, but mostly graininess and sourness. A hint of fruit which is OK.
Earlier Rating: 8/12/2008 Total Score: 2.1
Bottle, 3.5%. Pale yelllow colour. Small white head. Mild flavour, a little hay and light biscuity malts. Light bitterness, slightly rough. A very light beer.

Bottled. Yellow colour, mediumsized white head. Aroma is metallic, a bit skunky and hoppy. Flavour is better, with a nice malty and hoppy touch to it. Some slight skunky notes also. Flavour is not bad.

Clear golden with medium white head. Sweet malty aroma with yeasty and caramel notes. sweet flavour with fruity and cardboard notes. Ends mild bitter.

Bottled (BB 10/2007)
Pale yellow color, decent white head, lace. Metal, grain, wheaty hops in the aroma. Grassy hoppy, grainy flavor. Bitterish finish. Some rubbery 3.5 % notes, but otherwise quite decent 3½-beer.

Botte. A clear, pale golden beer with a nice white head. The nose has nice hops on a malty background, but with too much pale malt aroma. Some toffee and bread too. Bready, pale-malty flavor with toffee and a decent bitterness. Hints of butterscotch too, but in a pleasant way. Medium body. It finishes as it starts and has a little bitterness lingering. For a Swedish 3.5% it’s quite nice, but that’s it. (081127)