Nils Oscar India Ale

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

At The Golden Days. Clear golden yellow with decent white foam head. Aroma is hoppy and some fruit. Taste is full hop bitterness with again some fruit (apple, orange). Short dry bitter aftertaste. (Gothenburg 201208)

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

Bottle at "Mondial de la Bière 200" in Strasbourg. Poured a clear deep gold to orange colored ale with a one finger white foamy head that had a short retention. The aroma is aromatic hops, soft caramel malts and fruity, orange. The flavour is a superb herbal hoppy bitterness, notes of caramel malts, hints of fruits, grapefruit, lychee, orange. The moutfeel is overwhelming by the intensity of the hops. This medium bodied ale has a lingering hoppy bitter end. If you aren't a fan of the bitterness, this ale isn't for you, in the opposite ...

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottle: Poured a light orangey color ale with an average size foamy head with good retention and good lacing. Aroma of dry and astringent English hops with an average caramel malt base. Taste is also dominated by some English dry hops with a quite dry caramel malt base. Average body with good carbonation. I guess this is somewhat average overall but still too dry for my taste.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 4

Tasted at the April Northern California Beer Tasting. This IPA pours a orange gold color from a 12oz bottle. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is caramel and sweet with a touch of hops. A light to medium bodied IPA. The malts are caramel and sweet. The hops are VERY mild, a touch floral and citrusy. Well it’s hopier than a BUD, but its kind of mild and tasteless. It was worth trying, but I can’t say that there is much here. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Pours with a frothy, initially almost three-finger thick, pale tan colored head that leaves some lacing on the sides of my glass. The beer pours from the bottle without a trace of sediment and is a clear, concentrated copper hue as it sits on my desk, when held up to the light the copper becomes much more characteristic with an almost metallic sheen to it. The aroma is quite malt focused, when compared to a typical American IPA, but certainly is hop focused. Aromas of lychee, herbal pine and sweet citrus zest are most noticed. The malt, while secondary contributes aromas of soft caramelized bread crust, biscuit malt and just an overall, really nice malt character. The hop aromatics are surprisingly almost more focused on the herbal / pine notes than the typical Amarillo notes of super fruit.

Nicely bitter from the get go, though not aggressively so. The bitterness seems to soften a bit through towards the finish, but then picks up a bit of green-hop astringency that accentuates a biting bitterness that lingers on the tongue for quite some time. Sweet caramelized malt notes don't nearly bring out the hop fruit character that I was expecting, though there are some soft flavors of grapefruit zest, a touch of lychee and some apricot notes towards the finish. A deep, rich grain / malt character provides a backdrop to the hop notes; it has quite a biscuit character and just a chewy maltiness. This is quite drinkable, almost has the heft of a Pale Ale more than that of an IPA.

Not nearly the Amarillo character I was expecting; while I was not expecting an over the top hopped IPA, I was expecting a much more fruit character that is the signature of Amarillo hops. It makes me wonder if the brewer exercised a very soft hand when it came to the flavor and aroma hop additions, especially since the bitterness is here fairly well. Still this is a tasty brew, though with this great malt character it could have use an excessive addition of Amarillo dry-hopped in the conditioning tank. For all my complaining, it is actually an enjoyable brew that I would be happy to have again.

Purchased: Plaza Liquors, Tucson AZ

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Dark copper coloured, mediusized white head. Weak fruitish hoppy aroma. Fruitish hoppy flavour, wellbalanced, but carbonation is doing a bit too much "biting" on the tongue. OK standard IPA.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

pours a hazy amber colour with a little thin foam; aroma of flowers and orange; oily and with a solid malt backbone, medium bitterness; long dry bitter flowery and hoppy finish

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Sampled RBESG 2006, bottle. Deep golden to amber colour. Lovely hoppy aroma. The flavour is less outstanding, but still good. Not a bad try from Nils Oscar.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottle. Pours out dark golden with firm white head. Weak aroma of citric fruit and Tärnös metsllic mslt character. Not as hoppy as the cask version, it’s rather lame and leaning more to a metallic maltiness except for the finish where you can pick up som really citric hops. The cask version was great. The bottled version was just boring. (Cask at Akkurat, Stockholm) hazy pale amber/orange with low creamy white head. Green hops, orange-peels with a floral undertone in the aroma. Hoppy orangey flavour, hints of grass. Firm medium body. Long orangey bitter aftertaste. Indeed, this is great! Well-made stuff