Nørrebro Saison Lambic Pinot Noir

Brewed by Nørrebro Bryghus
Style: Saison
København, Denmark

First time I had this was a zip from a glass at Ølbaren in Copenhagen when S. Hill was waving Copenhagen goodbye. I really enjoyed it and are looking forward to taste this one. This one is a botlle from Ølbutikken, Copenhagen. The beer is pretty alive when uncapped, take care. The pour is cloudy and deep yellow with a triumphic white head with rather large bubbles in when fading. Citric and wooden notes dominates the nose with some peaches and hay to back it. The taste is really bitter - really like a pomolo fruit but at the same time the palate and mouthfeel is mild and oily. There is sweet notes and not that many horses locked in stables as I remember. There is both fruit and bitchslaps that tends to be very nice combined. The finish is rather anonymous though

Bottle. Pours hazy golden, the head leaves some lacing. Aroma of wet hay, light spicyness and some petrol. Sourness and winous tartness. Rather well balanced but with complexity.

Bottle, bought @ Nørrebro Bryghus.
Pours lightly hazy golden with a great, staying, small, creamy, white head. Aroma is sweet at first, lightl citric, pepper, oak. Lowish carbonation, super dry mouthfeel. Fantastic flavour, gueuze, oak, zesty green apple. Crisp malts, white pepper. Oaky dry finish. Lovely long, dry pepper finish. Top-notch, really lovely!

Bottle, kindly brought by Jeppe. Oak, peach, raspberry and vinous notes in the aroma. Oaky flavor with raspberry, leather, lemon, grapefruit, melon. Very complex, tasty and tart. Delicious.

375 ml bottle, kindly shared by my beer pal Olav, who bought it at Nørrebro Bryghus. ABV 6.5%. Hazy golden colour, big to moderate white head. Nice fruity aroma with lemony notes. Very acidic and lemony flavour, funky notes.

Bottle at Nørrebro Bryghus. Murkey golden/yellow - white head. Dryness, cactus, barnyard, pee, horsey, light flowery, acid, brett, peppery, mould, earthy, citrus, light sourish, tartness, bitterness, yeast phenols. Nice - but a bit too much saison.

A golden yellow beer with orange hues. Quite hazy. A nice big white head develops and stays on for quite a while. Lots of lacings. There’s lots of barnyard funk in the nose and an interesting mildly spicy saison character beneath it. Notes of grass, barrel and sweet and tart grapes. The smell is actually really good - lively and interesting. Unfortunately, the taste isn’t as good as the smell. Here are some mildly tart lambic flavors of lemon and funky mud which soon make room for sweeter fruity notes of grapes and grapefruit along with notes of wheat and malts. Some clove-like and peppery spicy notes and hints of brett, oak and vanilla. The spiciness leads the way to a gentle hoppy and phenolic bitterness in the finish. I don’t really get this bitterness, and I actually think it’s superfluous. Notes of grass and fruits in the slightly too short finish as well. All in all, the taste is somewhat interesting, but it’s too edgy and unbalanced - it doesn’t manage come together as a whole. The body is light and the carbonation is soft. The texture could have been dryer. Quite and interesting beer, and definitely a fun experiment. But in the end, it doesn’t come out as more than a blend of saison and lambic, the sum isn’t bigger than it’s parts. Bottle.