Tonight's beer: Nøgne-Ø Peculiar Yule
Cardamom, backed by other baking spices, mostly floral and bright. Dark bread and caramel and toast filling in around with flickers of earthy-grassy bitterness. Maybe a dim image of dark dried/candied fruits. Surprisingly drying into and beyond the finish.
A bit bready-chewy, medium-bodied, with pretty decent carbonation. Drying and refreshing, a little sticky on the finish, eventually ending up in the vicinity of cleansing.
A heavily-spiced beer, but a nicely drinkable one. It's probable that cardamom (along with whatever other spices are in this beer) is more traditional for Xmas brinks and foods in Norway than in America (or in England, whence most such American traditions derive); basically, although this doesn't taste overly like Xmas to *me*, I'm willing to believe it would to a Norwegian. Plenty intense and complex; the spice pretty much dominates, but the beer holds together niftily in spite of that. Yet another excellent beer from Nøgne-Ø.
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| Nøgne-Ø Peculiar Yule |
Cardamom, backed by other baking spices, mostly floral and bright. Dark bread and caramel and toast filling in around with flickers of earthy-grassy bitterness. Maybe a dim image of dark dried/candied fruits. Surprisingly drying into and beyond the finish.
A bit bready-chewy, medium-bodied, with pretty decent carbonation. Drying and refreshing, a little sticky on the finish, eventually ending up in the vicinity of cleansing.
A heavily-spiced beer, but a nicely drinkable one. It's probable that cardamom (along with whatever other spices are in this beer) is more traditional for Xmas brinks and foods in Norway than in America (or in England, whence most such American traditions derive); basically, although this doesn't taste overly like Xmas to *me*, I'm willing to believe it would to a Norwegian. Plenty intense and complex; the spice pretty much dominates, but the beer holds together niftily in spite of that. Yet another excellent beer from Nøgne-Ø.
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