Nils Oscar Kalasöl

Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Vienna
Nyköping, Sweden

My first Swede. Nice, tight package. Some fruit, notes of rye, Pour is clear orange/amber. Very refreshing. Clean crisp beer with enough malt to keep you interested and a snappy hops finish. For some reason I thought of Bisquick. Yum.

a hoppy dry malty and slight fruity amber beer. dry caramel and hoppy flavour with crisp and hoppy finish. near perfect palate.

Bottle from Marilibusi in our first trade, a bonus bottle mind you. Shared wtih my girlfriend Cyn pre 1200 night. Pours orange witha nice big 3 finger tan head. Nose is sweet with toffe notes. Taste is sweet, bitter, biscuity. This is an interesting style and a complex brew.

A vigorous pour yields a three-finger thick, pale tan colored head. The beer is an amber color that shows a brilliantly clear, deeply reddish hued, copper color when held up to the light. The aroma is a nice mix of dry & sweet malt notes and a touch of spicy hop character. Ample toasty malt, biscuit notes and bread crust aromatics mix in with notes of caramelized malt sugars, and a soft, berry like fruitiness. The hops seem to accent the berry notes as well as provide a touch of herbal character. This is most definitely a malt dominated beer, but I like the mix of malt notes here and the hops add just a little something to the aroma.

Quite spicy tasting, much more so than the aroma would have suggested; the beer has notes of grassy herbs, woody black pepper and an underlying spicy herbal note that is quite noticeable throughout each sip but most noticed up front.. This is still a substantially malt driven brew though as flavors of toasted biscuits, toasted whole grain bread, browned soda crackers and lots of spicy rye notes. This has a light grain / malt sweetness to it that is a touch caramelized in character. That berry note is here in the flavor too and still seems to be derived from a mix of malt and hop notes. This has a light-medium heft to it that keeps this from being a beer you could pound. It is a touch viscous and this really adds a nice texture, which in combination with the grain makes this a chewy brew.

This beer is quite spicy, I think this is driven by both the hops and the rye, either way it makes this beer quite interesting. One of the tastier O-fest beers I have had in a while and even though the rye is non-traditional, I really like its addition to this brew.

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Transparent golden amber with minimal head and lacing. The brew possesses toffee, buttermilk biscuit, and herbal notes. Love the backstory here. Just wish they made better beer.

A light amber color plenty of off-white head. Sweet biscuit malts on the aroma with a faint citrus tinge. Light malty body with a biscuit character to it and a faint hop bite on the finish.

Pours amber with a tall, semi spritzy froth. Good head retention reducing to a full dusty canopy leaving snail tracks down the glass. Aromas of caramel malted biscuits. Nice! Medium nectar with ample residual effers creating a soft cottony texture. Bright and crisp, this brew is alive. Well integrated flavors of caramel, citrus peel, biscuits, herbs, and a bit of mineral. The finish lingers with perfect bittering. Highly recommended.

Pours darker amber with a soft khaki head. Toasty malts up front, caramel and sweet bread. Finish is earthy, solid hops to ease up the malts.