Nils Oscar India Ale

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

Bottle. Pours a golden/orange color. Aroma is grassy and earthy with some flowery notes. Taste is a bit bitter with some hops and fruity notes.

In short: A basic citrusy IPA with a pleasant dry wood finish
How: Bottle 330ml. Consumed as soon as I got it but already reaching expiration date
The look: Clear golden-copper body topped by a very small white head
In long: An aromatic nose with a “fresh” sweetness (candy shop), some perfume and hops resin. Taste is basic caramelized cereals. Some hops with a 2/3 citrusy and 1/3 resinous profile. A little peppery spiciness from the hops. A pleasant dryness in the finish (dry wood & tannins). Nothing very enjoyable here but nothing offensive either. I’ll go easy on my rating since I drank the bottle on the month of the expiration date. As it is I find it a decent Pale Ale. Pretty decent but very much been-there-done-that. If that was a movie it would be a direct-to-video. A beer for the mass, as typical as a politician promise and as easy to swallow.

Pours with a medium sized head of foam, which quickly dissapeared. Has a flowery hops smell which I really enjoy. The taste is similar to the smell with some flowery hops and a delightfull bitterness at the end. It was quite easy to drink and isn’t as bitter as many of the american pale ales.

Bottle. Pours as a medium sized fizzy head with a fair amount of lacing, transparent, visible carbonation, and an orange hue. It posseses a malty, caramel, upfront citrus hops, and fruity aroma. The flavor mimicks the aroma. The mouthfeel was fairly smooth with a light-medium body. This is a nice IPA for those that do not enjoy extremely hoppy tasting IPA’s and therefore it would make for a nice session IPA as it is an easy drinking IPA.

Bottle purchased at Port Royal in Baton Rouge. Pours a slightly hazy golden orange with a small pillowy white head that recedes to a ring leaving a little lacing. Citrus hops are the first thing I notice in the nose with lemons and oranges. There are some bready malts mixed in as well as a bit of caramel malts. The hops is the taste have some citrus character but also add a good bit of earthiness with some bitterness that lasts through the finish. The caramel malts form a solid backbone that balances everything out. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with moderate carbonation and sticky with hops and malt sweetness. This is nice IPA that falls somewhere between and American and and English IPA in my opinion. Very drinkable.

Bottle: Poured a light orangey color ale with an average size foamy head with good retention and good lacing. Aroma of dry and astringent English hops with an average caramel malt base. Taste is also dominated by some English dry hops with a quite dry caramel malt base. Average body with good carbonation. I guess this is somewhat average overall but still too dry for my taste.

Bottled(330ml). -Poured nice orange color with medium sized pale beige head and very aromatic flowery nose. Fresh hoppy, fruity and flowery with notes of caramel. Light bitter finish. Very pleasant and good IPA.

Aroma of orange hops and a malt backing, deep orange, small but firm custard head, some pretty lace.Taste has assertive orange hops, spicy notes, a fine malt underpinning. Medium bodied, very well balanced, delightfully bitter, tongue is treated to a zingy dance. Terrific! I bought this beer in November 2007, it held up incredibly well!