New Glarus Norski

Formerly brewed at New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Heller Bock
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Fresh organic honey aroma, warm and fruity. Sweet a bit thinner texture than Staghorn. Dry finish . Alcoholic finish.

Poured "apple juice" (great description BTW) with thin white head...smelled malty and sweet, though not with honey...definatey grains...taste was very grainy with an overpowering cloying sweetness of honey...sour finish...not bad, but not my cup of tea...

Bright apple juice golden color with a medium egg white head that dissipates. This beer seems to be a bit of a contradiction. Aroma is mainly oatey grain with a kindof sweet undercurrent which makes since now that I have read the descprition, its the honey stupid. Flavor is also grainy but also sweet in a honey sortof way. I’m not sure if I dig any of the honey beers, especially since I don’t care for this from New Glarus, one of my favorite breweries.

Sparkling apple juice body with medium-large off-white head. Aroma is moderately sweet, apple, honey, some corn, light herbal. Taste is medium sweet, apple, honey, some herbal, grain, floral, light peach. Light-medium, lightly sticky body -- good heller bock characteristics. Ok, but not up to snuff for this fine brewery.

Gold, small but sturdy head. Nice toasty aroma. Fruity, kind of herbal flavor throughout. Slightly oily mouthfeel. I was unaware of any honey until I read the description, and I could not detect any in the aroma or flavor. A pleasently filling beer nonetheless. Thanks to Marinaro500 for this trade!

12 oz bottle: bold pour with a large off-white cream and clear golden hue…the head dies into a patchy film that looks like white algae. Sweet melony malt aroma with a slightly metallic, sour component. Malt dominates the flavours with honey, sweet grapes, almonds and some flower petals. There is a small hop bite at the very end of a short finish. Drinkable, but not remarkable…

This is one of the somewhat rare beers where I really needed the whole bottle to figure out what I thought of it. At first I was really disappointed with it. Yellow color, some clinging lace. The aroma is, at best, a moderate version of many malt liquors and Coors Light variety beers that I’ve had. Really unremarkable; it wouldn’t stand out in a blind taste test. This didn’t change. But the flavor did. The honey sweetness was noticeable and it worked oddly with the obvious bock maltiness. But then I started eating a homemade quesadilla and it all clicked--it worked really well. I had a sense of balance and usefullness for the honey. I wasn’t sure by the end, again, as the palate seemed to fade considerably. Even some alcohol seemed to pop through. So, all in all, I think there are some uses for this beer in a beer-food combination but solo I thought it had little to distinguish it except for some flavors that aren’t to everyones’ taste.

Golden body, creamy white head. Light bready aroma. The flavor boasts yeasty bread, slight lactic acid tartness, and minimal hops. Good light mouthfeel, carbonation seems appropriate.