Ringnes Pilsener

Brewed by Ringnes Bryggeri (Carlsberg)
Style: Pilsener
Oslo, Norway

Canned. Golden colour, minor white head. Beer gone flat due to small leak. Aroma is sweet malts, some mild notes of grains and hops. Flavour is quite much the same. Rather bready as well. Would be nicer with carbonation (which it probably should have)

Can (BB 03/2010)
Courtesy of Alfa, thanks! Can has got some hits, so no carbonation. Golden color, small white head. Grainy, a bit papery nose. Flat (because of the leak). Malty, cardboardish, some buttery notes, grassyness. Some good qualities, more bad qualites...

(Canned) Slightly hazy, paleish golden with a small, but firm head. Sweet and corny aroma with cardboard and plastic. Flavor of plastic, sweet and corny malt with a touch of herby-aromatic hops. Light to medium body, lowish and soft carbonation. A simple, sweet and adjuncty pilsener. Somewhat similar to Saku Kuld Export.

(Canned) Poured pale golden and clear with medium sized and white head. Aroma is mostly metallic with some grassy notes. Thin palate wih medium carbonation. Metallic tasted contained also some graininess, bitterness and light sweetness. Very short and mildly bitter aftertaste.

(Draught at Gardermoen Airport, Oslo, 6 Nov 2009) Golden colour with frothy, white head. Malty nose with bread and a touch of citrus, slightly sourish with some boiled vegetables. Malty taste with notes of grass, bread and slightly grassy hops in a finish with moderate bitterness. Light body, with balanced sweetness. Fairly clean. Drinkable but boring.

330ml can - swap with Alfa - thanks!
Pale. Smells like a sugary LA, that weetabixy grain aroma. Yup, those LA grains in the taste too. Slightly metallic. Shitty, and sweet. Fortunately minimal aftertaste - I wouldn’t want that metal hanging around. Later, I get some very gay fruitiness too.

International lager style - no flavors that are nice. Had one at the peak of Kebenekaise (didn’t bring it myself).

On tap at Radisson Hotel in Bergen. Boring, bread, metallic. Yeah you know how it is. So incredibly thin and watery beer that one wonders how its possible.