Nils Oscar God Lager

Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Dortmunder/Helles
Nyköping, Sweden

Bottle. Shiny golden. Small white head, mostly diminishing. Mellow and alluring aromas of floral hops, malt and (sweetish) citrus. Discreet, medium sweet malt flavors. Well balanced with gentle hops. Smooth. Healthy body. Semi-dry, slight hopbitter finish. A delicious lager.

Golden with a nice head. The aroma has notes of malt, flower and a bit of honey. The flavour is fresh and nice with notes of caramel, fruit and flower. The bitterness is nice and perfectly balanced. A really nice lager - just like the name promises: a Good Lager!!

Bottle Systembolaget. Another winner in my book from Nils Oscar. Nice madarin orange colour and decent head. Big nose of dough and caramel and honey. Tasty too, with a fat, creamy mouthfeel, low carbonation and chewy malts. Nicely balanced and moorish.

0.33 l bottle. Golden to amber color with small head. Good malty aroma with fruity and herbal hops, some caramel, british hops. Malty flavor with caramel, toffe, honey, fruity hops and moderate bitterness. Well made and balanced with good maltiness.

Bottle. OK hop aroma. Sweetish flavour, quite malty and roasted/smoked.

nice golden color, light whtie head. Aroma with hints of honey and citrus . Malty sweet taste, some honey notes. A very nice beer, which i will enjoy.

Bottle from Engelsmann, Best Before Oct 2006, drunk on 9/30/06.
A very deep pencil-yellow combines with a healthy copper-maize hue to create quite a colorful body. Thin, but creamy white head is retained, precariously at cover, and leaves wisps of lacing down the glass as it recedes. Medium-sized bubbles rise aggressively at first, but soon quiet down. Clarity is medium-high to high.
Sweet honey and chewy graham crackers in the nose rise up, almost on par (in strength) with the saazy dryness that emanates forth as well. Clean and well-lagered, but the malt produces an near-caramel-like character that seems much overdone, when I would think the hops should be doing most of the talking. Still, a snappy yeast is not lost, picking at the malts as the hops slowly fade in to a dry, leafy, almost herbal-like afterthought. Settles out to some light dough and honey, upon warming.
Very sweet up front. Like dropping a glob of honey in your mouth. The palate is recovering from that the rest of the way, locking on to some light hops and dry yeast crispness, but not enough, in my opinion. A bit loose in texture, thanks to the very low carbonation, which also does not help with the sweetness. But there is some bitterness, the more I drink, just nothing to match the malt. Still, attenuation/carbonation issues aside, it’s a delightfully clean, well-brewed lager that just takes a little getting used to. With their wonderful mashing/extraction techniques, I think these guys are a little bit better accustomed to producing sweeter beers, but still, this is nothing to shake a fist at. No alcohol noted in flavor or aroma.

Bottle. Golden color with a white head. Fruity malt aroma. Flavour is fruity malt with some hints of hops.