Nils Oscar Farm Ale

Formerly brewed at Nils Oscar
Style: English Pale Ale
Nyköping, Sweden

Bottle from omhper or henrikb. Pours copper with a thin white ring of bubbles. Smells of spices, roses, tea and earthy malt. Taste is of tea with touches of chocolate and sweet malt. Mouthfeel is watery. Finish is nutty.

Bottle shared by puddintane. Pours a med brown color with not much head at all. Flavor was a lot of sweetness and spices. Tasted like it has some rye and brea to it. Kind of a weird beer. Defintely not a farm ale.

(Bottle) Pours amber. Fruity, toasted, light caramelly and tiny smoked aroma with subtile clovey and hoppy notes. Tiny hints of liquorice. Nils Oscar graininess also present. Grainy, malt flavour with notes of bread and hints of toffee/caramel. A bit sweet and light bitter. Tiny fruity and maybe some smoke in the flavour as well. Light to medium body.

Bottle shared by puddintane: Dark copper in color with an off white head. Aroma of spices, caramel, yeasty. Flavor, caramel and some pale malts, with some slight funk to it.

Bottle. Pours a beatiful amber colour with medium, quickly disappearing head. Roasted, earthy, grainy, hayish malt character, some hops as well. medium bodied. Bitter finish.

Bottle from Lagomswedish, thanks Darren! Best Before April 2007, drunk on 3/7/07
Nils Oscar’s lower gravity beers are a prime example of why brewers with great talent should NEVER filter/force carb their beers. This beautiful hay-straw-golden beer is sparklingly clear, with tons of bubbles rising initially, to form a white head. But the carbonation comes out of solution quickly, reducing the head to partial cover/ring very quickly and providing little/no lacing.
Very crisp hops are complemented by immensely succulent, crisp straw-like maltiness with notes of hay and barley grains. Just a slight toasted hint that adds no acidity or breadiness but gives it that much more appeal. Honey is lightly noted, as well as a bit of light fruitiness (nectarines, pears) that adds complexity. This would be one of the better 4.2 abv beers I’ve smelled, but due to the filtration, there’s no yeast to take up the diacetyl and it’s left to wreck havoc on what would otherwise be a fantastically charming aroma.
Very much the same situation in the flavor. It’s not a diacetyl bomb, far from it, and the malt and hops are so well done that it’s easy to finish the glass. But in delicate beers like this, even small amounts of diacetyl have very significant effects on the overall flavor. The buttercreamy flavors work against the overall crispness/brightness of the beer, leaving it somewhat soggy in flavor. The forced carbonation runs out of steam pretty quickly too, leaving the beer watery and loose on the finish after only 5 or so minutes. Lovely graininess, with soft, but zesty fruitiness and crisp, aromatic and flavorful herbal/grassy hoppiness.
This beer (like the god lager and lundgrens lager) has SO much potential, if they just would bottle condition it. As Per says, the bottles don’t do it justice. Hopefully I can try it on draught sooner than later!

Bottle. Amber brown with a medium beige head. Sweet aroma, malty and fruity. Flavour is sweet with a good toasty maltiness, fruity and hoppy ending with a dry finish.

Bottle. Clear amber colour with a small off-white head. Fruity apricot aroma. Roasted aroma with a synthetic touch. Medium bitterness, short finish.