Haandbryggeriet Nissemor

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

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.

Bottle 0.5 l. Pretty much opaque brownish black with a foamy dunkelweizenlike head. Nose is fruity with spices and malts. Nice and fresh, but hard to pick up anything specific. Flavor is a bit sweet and sour (baltic porter style) with a dry roasted finish. Very foamy carbonation (bottle conditioned?). Ashiness and sourness of a good porter combined with fruitiness and mouthfeel of a belgian double. Very interesting and damn good.

Nissemor is good-looking beer with big and long-lasting beige head. Aroma is very great: sweet and roasted malts together with some fruits. Flavour is very roasted, slightly sweet and also lot of hops are found. Quite easy to drink and lot of carbonation that comes lower quite quicly. There are lot of hops and roasted malts, but sweetness balanced roastiness nicely and aroma is absolutely great.

50cl bottle. Batch 104 from Vinmonopolet. It poured a dark black colour with almost no head whatsoever. A rather disappointing start. The aroma is dominated by coffee and roasted malts, but spices and hops is also present. Hints of alcohol and nuts. The flavour is heavy and is also dominated by coffee and roasted malts. Spices are also present as is liqourice, hops, nuts and some alcohol. It has a long and lingering aftertaste. A very nice christmas beer indeed.

Bottle 0,5 l. Batch # 190. Pours almost pitch black with a moderate tan head. Strong dark roasted malt aroma,prunes. Taste is moderate sweet, good roasted malts, noticeable liquorice, and a long lasting dry taste of strong espresso. Happy X-mas

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)

Dark red/brown coloured - almost black. A large brownish head clinging to the bottle. Pleasant aroma of roasted malt. Flavour has also plenty of roast malts, moderately sweet, with coffee and dark bitter chocolate in the long aftertaste.

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.