Haandbryggeriet Nissemor

Brewed by Haandbryggeriet (Norway)
Style: Old Ale
Drammen, Norway

500ml bottle (batch 44, bb. Sept.08). Dense, brownish head over a mahogany coloured body. Pleasant aroma of roasted malt. Marked taste of aniseed with hints of dark fruits and burnt malt. Rounded bitter finish. Fits the season well, but the anise is bit too dominant (25.11.2006).

Bottle. Drak brown colour with a tan head. Sweet malty spicy aroma. Malty spicy flavor, hints of licorice. Lots of carbonation. Dry malty finish with some bitterness.

500 ml brown bottle, Vinmonopolet. Batch #46. Bottle conditioned. Dark brown colour. Huge and creamy long-lasting tan head. Pleasant aroma of roast malts, dried fruits, mild coffee and chocolate. Flavour has also plenty of roast malts, moderately sweet, with coffee and dark bitter chocolate in the long aftertaste. Good beer, but Nissefar is even better.

Deep reddish brown colour with a large dense light brown head. Sweet malty aroma with a spicy and fruity note and a light chocolate hint. Malty and fruity flavor with a vague chocolate sweetness.

500 ml bottle. Dark brown with a deep bright red hue. Clear. Small light brown head mainly around the edges. A few islands elsewhere. Nutty caramel aroma. Sweet nose. Nice dose of hop bitterness at first. Then a lightly burnt caramel flavours. Complex sugars leave a very sweet impression. Somewhat sherry-like, oily, dry and slightly fruity, but the flavours are not typically of sherry either.

Bottled. Dark brown coloured with a huge off white head. Yeasty, malty and caramel - way way too high carbonation level - so much in fact - taht it makes it difficult to drink.

Bottle. Dark brown colour with a big beige head. Yeast, malty, dark fruits, coffee aroma and taste, chocolate. Medium body with a light sweet dry finish.

Bottled. A nice, spiced aroma escaped the bottled immediately after opening. Promising. It pours dark brown, with lots of carbonation and a lovely, dense, lasting tan head. Some sediments in the bottom. The nose is spiced at first, with coffee-like bitterness, hops and some sour notes. Quite roasted flavor with sweetness, hops, spicyness, dried fruits and notes of coffee. Some vinous notes as well. Pleasant mouthfeel, fullbodied and drying. The finish is warming and quite hopped, with a spicyness and an alcohol-note that lasts quite long. Nice! Rating: 7-4-8-4-15-3.8.(061106)

Bottle, 2008 vintage, #187. Courtesy of the brewery. Pours a very dark brown body, slightly unclear, under a finger thick, dense, beige head. Licorice, roasted malts, coffee beans, some notes of prunes and subtle resiny, citrusy hops in the aroma. Full-bodied, quite low on carbonation, rather dry, and with flavors of roasted malts, piney and citrusy hops giving a pleasant bitterness, coffee, a little touch of salty licorice and some dark chocolate. A tiny touch of sourness too. Fine roasted finish with a balancing bitterness. Really pleasant this year, but not so very Christmasy anymore. (090101)