Nils Oscar India Ale

Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Nyköping, Sweden

Got this purple labeled bottle titled "India Pale Ale" at Sam’s in Chicago a few months ago. Not entirely sure it’s this same beer here. Anyway, poured with a nice ight tan head and a little lace. Color is a slightly hazy deep medium amber. Aroma is an earthy hop with some citrus. Flavor’s about the same. Seems like a cross betweem a British and an American IPA. Not bad, nothing special. Body is good as is carbonation. Bittersweet finish. Could be a session beer.

330ml bottle, labeled India Pale Ale. Sweet, caramel malt aroma, toasty, lightly hoppy and fruity with notes of orange and honey. Hazy medium amber color with a fading head. Maltiness carries over surprisingly strongly to the flavor as well, bringing plenty of caramel sweetness, biscuit and toasted grain character, along with a light-moderate dosage of bitterness and spicy, citric hop flavor towards the finish to help dry it out a bit. Thin and a bit watery on the palate, body is medium. Definitely a modern British-style IPA, nothing to do with the American take on the style at all from what I can tell. Not bad, though.

This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a large sized head of foamy fine to medium sized off-white colored bubbles that were and left behind a slightly hazy softly carbonated golden brown colored body and thick foamy lacing. The mild aroma was hoppy and caramel malt. The mouth feel was tingly at the start and strongly tingly at the finish. The balanced flavor contained notes of hops and caramel. Delicious and one I would certainly buy again.

Bottle. Light amber coloured with a nice off white head. Aromas of caramel, malt, cereal and a floral hoppy finish. Malty flavour with notes of grain and nice bitter hops in the finish.

Bottle. Pours a yellow-orange body with yellowish white head. Aroma of sweet malts, sugar, caramel, and light citrus hops. Flavor is the same with a light, bitter hop finish. Medium bodied, but rather watery. Far too malty for an IPA; I can barely taste the hops.

Bottle. purple label. Pours a golden yellow orange. Sweeter malts dominate the aroma. Mild hop presence in the aroma. Taste is more malt presence. Mild to medium bitterness but the malts are the story here. Caramel sweetness. Very balanced & tasty. Good beer; subpar IPA at least in the Hoppy American version sense

Bottle @ Mondial de la Bière
Appearance: amber light look with mid light creamy top. 3-
Nose: malty front feel , caramel with hoppy finish.
Flavor/Palate : Medium bodied. Solid mid malty character with top as well in finish green clean hops. Good session bitter ale with proper malt backbone.

Bottle. Moderate malt note of bread, light to moderate hop aroma of herbs, slight leather small for the yeast, with hints of date and other dried fruit and spice. Head is average sized, frothy, white, with fair lacing and good leg, and is mostly diminishing. Color is Sparkling clear amber/copper. Flavor starts lightly sweet and acidic, then finishes lightly acidic and bitter. Palate is on the lighter side of medium, oily and has a soft carbonation. More malty than I usually expect from an IPA, but still a good drinking beer. Not worth the $5.50 a bottle though.