Nils Oscar Kalasöl

Brewed by Nils Oscar
Style: Vienna
Nyköping, Sweden

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.

Appearance: Pours a clear, dark amber body with a foamy, bubbly white head. Smell: Aromatic toasted grain nose with notes of caramelized sugar, flowers, and citrus. Taste: Sweet, sugar-encrusted grain flavor with a bit of toasted nuts. Hint of flowers. Candied citrus rind with a gentle bitterness. Dry finish with a mild, lingering bitterness. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Slight stickiness to the mouthfeel. Drinkability: A fine beer that’s very drinkable, though, sadly, at $5.10 for a single 11.2oz bottle, it’s a beer experience I don’t see myself often repeating.

Draught at The Rover in Gothenburg.
Even better taste than the bottle. Dark amber to brown color, beige-brown lasting creamy head. Fruity scent and taste. Quite big bitterness, but it fits and is balanced well.
Once more though, I like the draught one well better than the bottles I’ve had.

330 mL bottle. Copper-orange with a small, short-lived head. The aroma, is appealing and complex, containing some fresh fruit (peaches, apples), a touch of chocolate, sweetish malt, and some earthy hops. The fruit drop out of the flavour, and the hops step up. Crisp, slightly bitter finish. A very good beer.

Orangish copper with an amber hue to it. Small tan head. Malty flavor with a dry finish. I was impressed with this beer. I just picked up the Nils Oscar Imperial Stout and cant wait to try that. Good Scandanavian beer.

Reddish brown. Above aevrgare body, complex, almost playful hoppiness, roasty. Bitter finish. As always from this brewery an interesting high quality brew.

Best before August 2005 33cL bottle consumed on 12/4/05. Sent to me from Bogdi1, thanks Juha!
Pours a deep cherry pie meat red, with some burnt ambers, light beige and auburns swirling about, and a mostly diminishing off-white head that is retained well at cover and provides ample lacing. Plenty of sediment in the bottle and appears to be bottle conditioned.
Aroma is sweet and creamy, with only light fruits (cherries, raisins, light berries) and mainly a sweet caramel and vanilla cream. Fresh toasted barley malts, with even some green, leafy, lightly spicy hops. Full and round, it’s one of those aromas that really fills up the senses. Flavor is unlike any other Oktoberfest I’ve had. Lacking the grainy, drying, bready maltiness that is so dominant to the style, this one has a more reserved, creamy sweetness, toffee and caramel with vanilla and a fair amount of hop flavor (green, leafy, lightly spicy floral notes). Moderate bitterness on end as well complements the creamy sweet malts. Relatively low roast character, a slight dark brown bread sort of aspect is passing, with more earthiness and light spice. Low, natural carbonation and a creamy, fluid texture. The hops are amped up a bit in this example, moreso than traditionally done, but not too much so that it ruins the balance. No alcohol apparency, surprisingly light yeast apparency.

I didn’t thougth that the swedes was able to brew a proper beer. I was wrong. This beer has a fine roasted aroma and taste.