This is a Swedish beer which has long been a favourite of mine: dark orange-gold in colour, while the nose is soft and sweetish, reminiscent of gently toasted white bread; there’s also a sort of dry biscuit/cracker character on the nose as well, with a restrained citrus orange in the background. A breakfast beer perhaps? Initial impressions in the mouth are of its intense bitterness and a lasting dry finish reminiscent of the breakfast cereal Grape Nuts; or imagine a hay barn in the summer when it hasn’t rained for a while and you can almost taste the dryness in the air. The beer delivers a vigorous piney and resiny palate-scrubbing effect to the palate, there’s also a light bittersweet side; it’s a sexy Marilyn Monroe of a lagered beer, a beer that sways onto the palate expressing big bold flavour colours as well as soft and seductive notes. In other words I like it — should you? I do.
A 5.3%ABV breakfast? I like the way you think!
ReplyDeleteNext step, a beer for brunch! Possibly a Marzen or a Maibock.
ReplyDeleteIn that case you could do far worse than a bottle of Primator Maibock from Pivovar Nachod, used to be Primator Exklusiv, but the new owners re-branded it.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds superb, there should be a beer for every moment of the day.
ReplyDeleteThe perfect round off for the day would have to be Unibroue's simply magnificent La Fin du Monde from a brandy style snifter.
ReplyDeleteyou used to be able to get that in the UK and also in little corner shops in the southwest of France.
ReplyDeleteI first got it in a L'eclerc in La Souterraine, just a few miles from my parents' place.
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