 tarjei (1131), Bryne, Norway
Jun 22, 2008
0,5 l bottle at Cardinal, Stavanger - shared with Roger. Batch # 109. Dark brown color, nice beige head. Aroma is smoked malt and dark fruit. Flovor is smoked, sweet malt, chocolate, dark fruit. Balanced and lovely beer. Not my last bottle Norwegian Wood!
roder_60 (871), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Aug 20, 2008 Poured a hazy brown color with forathy tan head. Aroma is brown sugared beef jerky. Flavor sweet caramel chocolate beginning that transforms into a smokey jerked meat flavor with a bitter finish. Overall, very good.
mdm46410 (545), Griffith, Indiana, USA
Aug 17, 2008 Poured from a 500ml bottle (Batch 86, Brewed: Aug. ’07) and served in an English pint glass. This beer poured a hazy copper brown with a lasting head of tight, tan foam. Some nice lacing was left behind. The aroma of the beer was made up of burnt wood, smoke, toasted caramel, spicy and fragrent juniper, and also some earthy yeast. The flavor included smoked meats, campfire, dark fruits, burnt caramel, and a solid dose of lasting juniper at the finish. Definately interesting. The mouthfeel was medium-bodied with mild carbonation. Despite the strong smoke presence, the juniper really shines through. Tasty and unique, but not something I would drink all the time.
daknole (644), Plantation, Florida, USA
Aug 17, 2008 bottle from knightly spirits...and from Eric Sanchez, thanks RICO! Brown pour with a tan head. smell is balanced between malt and smoke. Flavor is smokey and malty. Hops at end. Reminds me of a jerky beer. Interesting and pretty good for a smoked beer!
RudeLead (1), Oslo, Norway
does not count  Aug 14, 2008 Perhaps the first (as far as I know) commercial beer in Norway after the reinheitsgebot disappeared that has utilized the old Norwegian tradition of spicing beer with juniper as was common before hops found their way to Norway.
Slightly hazy, colour ranges from amber’ish brown to niqoutine yellow.
Nice foamy cream white head (reminds me of something in between a stout and a Belgian dubbel, which tells me there might be some candi in there..).
Sweet malty caramel’ish, piny, resinous aroma with a touch of smoke and a fruity hoppy hint.
Nice acidic, slightly vinous attack on the palate. Discreet bitterness Pretty dry & medium bodied. Slightly short aftertaste.
The taste is vinous (red, think zinfandel/shiraz) on the attack as well with a bit of caramelly malt, but the smoke (although not too strong) takes too much attencion. A pity, since i know that there are some juniper berries there as well as a nice malt profile that gets lost in the smoke.
Overall a nice beer though, but i hope they’ll amplify the juniper and cut down on the smoke on next batch.
Batch 148, by the way.
fb (46), Norway
Aug 12, 2008 Bottle, batch 142. I heard of this beer during a visit to the brwery a couple of years ago, it was a pleasure to taste it today.
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