Nøgne Ø India Pale Ale

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

Opaque dark yellow with off-white lacing foam head. Aroma is quite strong dominated by bitter hops. Taste likewise, a good IPA with a bite to it. Lasting aftertaste. (Bergen 201310)

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

Hazey honey brown with a creamy short cap floating on top. My gawd this smells good!! Big floral hops, sweet toasty malts, copper, more stuff that remind me of other things. Tropical fruits, some pine..... strange the smell is running out and getting harder to find. Drinking this way to fast...... its 10:30 at night and 30° in kitchen and this beer is going right to my dehydrated head. Nice bitter, great hop to malt ratio, pine, floral, lime or maybe just plain citrus, something else. Good earthy after taste with a lingering bitter. Daaaaaa I want more!! I could drink this constantly but its to dam much money.

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

From Brewery Creek. Pours a rocky white head - terrific lacing with this one, and ahazy, dark gold body. Aroma was delightful, with hop and pine needles to treat the npse. Flavour was every bit as good. Better than decent mouthfeel and finish.

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

500 ml capped bottle, batch 501, best before 05 05 2013. Poured an unfiltered hazy mahogany or old red-copper or burgundy-brown coloured I.P.A. with a three fingers thick beige creamy foamy head that had a very long retention and tons of micro bubbles. Lively carbonation. Good lacing. The aroma is aromatic Cascade hops, aciditic fruits, grapefruits, citrus, flowery. The flavour is a solid malty base, notes of caramel, fruity, grapefruits, citrus, a faint but real touch of spice, pepper, a magnificent persistent bitterness. The mouthfeel is well balanced. This full bodied I.P.A. has a lingering soft floral hoppy finish. The aftertaste is great aciditic fruits. A very nice and tasting I.P.A., not aggressive at all. A wunderful brew with, at least, a hiden warming effect.

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

pours a dark orange with a thick head. aroma is spicy hops, lots of malt and some citrus. feel is full and thick for the style. flavor is pretty malty, but with a heavy bitter dry finish. a little different than the norm, but pretty good.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 9

What a superb job done on a style that is sooo easy for me to enjoy, especially on a sweltering, but beautiful California summer day. I could drink pints of this and be a very happy man, but alas I only had a two bombers to enjoy. And that I did.

The beer pours out a clear medium amber/burnt orange color sitting underneath an off-white creamy head. Aroma chock full of floral, pine and citrus notes with a healthy dose of toasted malts and caramel to round it all out. Flavor doesn’t hide the fact that it’s gonna punch you in the face with it beautiful burst of grapefruit bitterness, sweet apricots and peaches and biscuity bready malts. Long bitter finish. The beer really does resonate with me and represents what a high quality, highly quaffable summertime beat-the-heat, cool-ya-down beer can be.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

Thanks goes out to Phil B for the bottle.
Batch 349, brewed on 31/03/2008, best before 31/03/2013. Poured out a huge light tan head that lasts forever, good ropy lacing, hazy amber beer with slight red hues. Great retention as I've yet to see my beer through the surface. The aroma has blown me away: very fresh mix of really sweet citrus with ruby red grapefruit leading the way, apricots and freshly rubbed spruce needles - something here reminding me of a juniper bush too, flowers, caramel. It's the prominent spruce or whatever that has me loving this aroma almost like no other IPA before it. The first taste that hits is a blend of evergreens and sharp grapefruit followed by soft caramel, apricot skin, almonds (weak and only on the finish). The malts are there, I can tell. However, they only keep this balanced and probably help dilute the besieging hops without leaving much of a lasting impression of their flavours. I guess that a more defined malt taste would only add to the enjoyment of this beer but I'm very happy the way it is right now. Never ending flavour and permanent bitter / spruce aftertaste. Very foamy in the mouth. Man, this evergreen / grapefruit taste gets me every time - I love it! How is this fresh? ..... So, half an hour later I've gotten bored with this beer. The hops became way more dominating than I really wanted. Still a fine beer but it didn't hold the craving for it throughout the entire bottle.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 6

Pours murky, dark copper; mine left a lot of debris in the glass. The head is short but lasting. Aroma is spicy with evergreen topnotes. Also, a sort of candy-sweetness comes through. The flavor is piney and the finish is aggressively bitter and dry. Medium bodies with strong carbonation. Good international sampler!

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Sampled from bottle. Pours cloudy copper with a bunch of yeast sludge, a frothy white head. Pleasant floral aroma with some pine, citrus and bread notes. Pleasantly bitter with resinous hop flavor. A bit of caramel, peppered fruit too. Smooth. The yeast sediment is distracting, but otherwise an enjoyable beer.

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

I was curious about this one, especially because of the Chinook and Cascade Hops. The thought of Norwegians brewing an American style IPA made this one a no-brainer to try. Poured an amber color with a huge, three finger, foamy head which lasted quite a long time. Nice, but subduded hoppy taste on the palette followed by a creamy, malty finish. Mild citrus overtones. Not overpowering on the hops, mildly bitter finish. A pleasant surprise. The price will probably keep me away from buying this one again, but I had to try it. Recommended.