Nils Oscar God Lager

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

Pours a clear straw gold with a 1 cm white head. Smells very grainy, like horsefeed mixed with honey. This is pretty well a farm field. The mouthfeel is slick with medium carbonation. The taste is very malty, with some unbuttered popcorn and sour citrus. Great, simple stuff.

(Bottle) Pours golden with a small head. The aroma is of white bread, straw, mild honey, light cookie and cracker-like malt with light oily, herbal hop tones up front, but there is also some room for grassy and floral hints. Tiny bit fruity as the beer gets warmer. The flavour is light to medium malty and light to medium hoppy with tones of cracker, bread, straw, grass and some light floral tones. The mouthfeel is clean (almost hard), light dry and light crisp. Light to medium sweet and light to medium bitter. Light to medium bodied. A bit too clean.

A really nice lager with a aromatic malt flavour and some a very balanced bitterness. Heja Sverige!

330 ml bottle. Pours a clear amber, almost no head. Slightly sweet, hoppy aroma. Taste follows after the aroma, with plenty of hops and sweet malts, finishes off bitter and dry. The flavor profile is reminiscent of a pale ale, with less residual sweetness.

Tasted 2008-03-22. Pours clear, golden orange with white head. Aroma: (Dark!) malts and hops. Sugarish bread. Flavour: Slightly breadish. Slightly bitter. Very tasty!

Bottle. Medium head with medium duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt and hops. Oily palate.

Bottled(330ml). -Golden coloured, medium sized soapy head, low carbonation. Malty and very hoppy with fruity and spicy notes. Dry and very bitter finish and aftertaste.

Considering the style, Scores ranging from 1 to 5, 5 being the most intense
Appearance:
Body:   Clear(1)->Murky(5) : 2     Pale Yellow(1)->Dark brown(5) : 2     Still(1)->Sparkling(5) : 3
Head:   None(1)->Large(5) : 4   White(1)->Tan(5) : 1   Lasting: 4   Lacing : 4
Aroma:
Intensity : 3  
Yeast : XX   Bread : 3   Apple : XX   Tropical Fruits : 1   Soap : XX   DMS : XX   Diacetyl : XX Sulfur : XX  
Malt : 4   Biscuity : 3   Hay : 1   Toasty : 2   Caramel : XX   Nuts : XX   Honey : 2   Cereals : 3   Grainy : XX
Hops : 3   Noble(1)->American(5) : 2   Leafy : XX   Spicy : 2   Floral : 4   Lemon/Lime : XX   Grapefruit : XX   Orange : XX   Herbal : XX   Grassy : 1   Pine/Spruce/Resin : XX  
Notes :   Peach/Apricot : 1   Earth : XX   Mint : XX   Butterscotch : XX   Smoke : XX
Flavor:
Initial Flavor : Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 3   Finish Dry(1)->Sweet(5) : 2   Sourness : XX   Bitterness : 2   Complex : XX   Length : XX
Palate:
Light(1)->Full(5) : 3   Flat(1)->Fizzy(5) : 3   Clean : 3   Sharp : XX   Watery : XX   Oily : 1   Chalk : XX   Astringent : XX   Alcohol : XX   Mineral : XX   Oxidation : XX   Metallic : XX

Comments: Excellent bready, structured malt base gives plenty of room to floral, expansive hoppiness. Clean and drinkable – aromatic and refined.