Närke !

Brewed by Närke Kulturbryggeri
Style: Old Ale
Örebro, Sweden

Bottle at Bishops Arms. Ruby body with a medium longlasting beige head.Aroma is sweet barley, fruit, light hops and caramel. Flavour is lots of sweet caramel, dark fruit, raisins, hops and alcohol. Pretty complex. Creamy texture. Nice one!

Bottle at Bishops Arms. Pours a clear ruby colour with a small dense tan head. Aroma is sweet malt, dark fruits, caramel and hops. It has a nice but sweet flavour with notes of dark fruits and caramel with a hoppy note and hoppy after taste.

[Sampled with the trio: Svoger, Svogergylp and Adenila Foged at EBF, 2008.] Red brew with hoppy vinous aroma. Cream, fruits, caramel, toffee and with a oaked bitter end

On-tap. Bishops Arms, Järntorget, Gothenburg. Red colour with a nice beige head. American hops, sweet malt, fruitiness, caramel, rubber. Hoppy, but not extremly bitter. Dangerously drinkable.

On draught at Bishops Arms, Järntorget. Clear , redish brown colour with steady head. Dense, compact aroma from canned strawberries, American hops and that house character also known as dark plum. Flavour is compact with sweet malts, yet not heavy in a bad sense, American hops, darker fruits such as plums and a bit of rubber ballooon. After is a bit of saltiness that’s lighly reminiscent of salmiac or licorice. That’s subtle, yet clear. All in all a thick, malty, balanced, well hopped in flavour with no sourness and moderate in bitterness. Well crafted again from Närke!

0.25 l bottle (8.5 %) at Stockholm Beer Festival 2008. Dark red color. Bready, caramelly, perfumed, nutty and fruity aroma wiht apricot and green apple. Bittersweet flavor with dark bread, caramel, toffee, lemon and watermelon.

On tap at European Beer Festival, Copenhagen. A nice, clear copper body is topped by a dense beige head. Hops dominates the aroma, with pinecones, resin and fluorine. Malty sweetness and caramel too. Caramel-sweet start on the flavor with a quite intense hoppyness soon running the show. Some alcohol too. Full-bodied, sweet and quite warming. The finish is lasting for a good while, with pine and bitterness. The beer isn’t overly balanced, but still very good. (080913)

Draught at EBF 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark. Unclear medium to dark orange brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, caramel, moderate to heavy hoppy, grapefruit, orange. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [130908]