Haandbryggeriet Påskegodt

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

500 ml bottle. Puours beutifully orange-brown. Medium head is very creamy. Liquid is hazy orange with shades or brown. Sweet fruits and spices in aroma. Malts are grass-like sweet and slightly roasted. Bitterness increases toward the finish, which is long and well balanced with maltiness and clues of alcohol. This should be driked quite warm, otherwise the alcohole comes through too much. Very enjoyable nutty arromas in the finish also and maybe a bit sourness. Flavors are medium sweet malts and fresh bitteration. Sweet and slick texute, but bitterness makes the finish dryer and sticky. Quite stron carbonation supports the body well and raises up aromas. Overall an excellent beer.

50cl bottle from Alko, Finland. Batch #124. Extremely lively, almost explosive on openning; cloudy amber with a thick cream head; rich buttery peach aroma with spicy yeast undertones; thick, smooth and spritzy in the mouth, with mellow fruit and a sherbert yeasty fizz; rounded bitter finish, with warming alcohol and some gingery spice. Very pleasant, but would prbably have been a lot better if I’d allowed the bottle to rest for a couple of days.

Batch #124. Dark amber, foamy beige head. Nose is orange marmalade, spices and glue. Intense spicy and hoppy flavor with little caramel malts. Finishes with peppery bitterness, raw yeast and alcohol. Medium bodied, coarse strong carbonation. Spicy, but raw and homebrew like. Pouring in the yeast makes it almost undrinkable.

500ml Bottle-Copper coloured with a bit of a haze which may be the sediment from the bottle or it may be intentional. Peachy, biscuity aroma with a hint of raspberry and a soapy element. Tangy on the tongue at first with a nice initial malty taste which turns pleasantly hoppy. The peach and biscuit again feature in the finish which gets increasingly fruity.

500ml bottle (alko)
Slightly hazy orangy-red, tiny head. Starts with a big fruity bitterness - both from hops and also from yeast. Also some evidence of alcohol. Subtle carbonation in the mouth. Some quite harsh zing from hops and yeast though. Slightly sludgy taste - too yeasty, that’s for sure. Pine and juniper try to lift it, but don’t quite succeed. In some ways it does veer towards a Belgian blonde with its combination of aromatic and bitter hops, and reliance on yeast. I can understand others really liking this, but it just doesn’t do it for me.

0.5 l bottle. Hazy amber color with vanishing head. Wheat and banana dominate the aroma. Malty, toffeish, yeasty and fruity flavor with notes of banana. Allthough decanted carefully, the flavor is too yeasty with unpleasant yeasty fruitiness and bitterness.

Bottled. Tart and expressive redberry aroma. Some smokyness as well. Not that strong, but intriguing. A bit hazy orange-red, thick off-white head with both small and big bubbles. Taste tart as well, quite dry, with a slow-starting hoppyness in the finish. The taste is initially berries, juniper perhaps. Later it turns almost woody. Balanced and complex, altough the tastes represented in this are not the my favourite.

Color is hazy orange. Head is big bubbly and bubbles fast away after which remaining foam is long lasting. Aromas are very fruity and little bit grassy malts and yeasty. Taste is spicy, fruity, wheat malty, yeasty and elegant bitterness stays long in the aftertaste. Medium bodied, foams softly in the mouth, clearly carbonated.