Nøgne Ø Tyttebær

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

Pours a light reddish brown color, with ok head. The smell is sweet and funky. The taste is sweet but then the funky hits which is great. This beer is best when cold, but gets funkier as it warms, the only problem is that there is some bad funk in the aftertaste as it warms but a good and different beer.

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

22oz bottle -

Aroma - mouth-watering funky-ness and acidity, quite eye-opening actually. Leather, wet tomato-plants, earty....loved it.

Appearance - copper/burnt orange body, fluffly dirty-white head, nice retention.

Taste - a resounding sour taste, lacticy, musty, barnyard with a subtle sour candy/cherry angle I was diggin’.

Palate - medium bodied, high carbonation, mouth stripping acidity

Overall - extremely enjoyable, and so glad I stumbled on this beauty. Not quite Cantillon or Girardin in acidic insanity, but what is...damn good.

Aroma: 10 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Bright honey brown body with a very strange but beautiful pinkish tan crown. Brew was very hard to pour it kept over foaming no matter how hard I tried to be gentle. This cap is so think the last drop of beer are hitting and instead going through it just spreads out over the top. First aroma to hit me was a pungent rooting floral smell with possible lemon grass? Dry sour hibiscuses? I don’t really like the stink of this beer, it’s very unique so I do like that but it just stinks. Sour dry funky taste with a funky floral cranberry bite. The taste is so light compared to the aggressive aroma. Clean yeasty funk taste very farm housesk. The cranberry taste is perfect for this beer I’m really digging it. took a while but I finally pinned down the aftertaste it reminds me of a over ripe almost starting to rot bitter orange, but in a good way. Great brew very different have never had anything even remotely like it before.

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

where's the love...this beer was surprisingly awesome. i'm stuck between 4.2-4.3. the cranberries are not as tart as expected and impart a slightly mellow sweet character to the fairly funky woodsie brew. very nice and very refreshing, yet complex. well done!

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

This beer was strange and delicious. This was one of my first forays into the world of wild ales and this beer is definitely wild! For starters, this beer is not for the feint of heart. This beer smells like a horse stable that hasn't been cleaned for weeks with additional notes of cranberry. The taste isn't much different - it is funky and sour at the same time. Funky from the Brett and Lactobacillus and sour from the lingonberry/cranberries. This beer is intense to say the least. If you are into the wild beers, give this a try. I enjoyed this beer very much. As a comparison, I would say it is much akin to a Flanders Red, but anyway you dice it, this beer is a WILD ale (btw, not a "Fruit" beer as indicated in the description of the beer). Overall, a fantastic collaboration between the Mikkeller and Nøgne Ø breweries. t.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Sampled from bottle. Pours red-copper with a sudsy head that lingers due to high carbonation. Berry fruit and leather in the nose. Complex flavor is dominated by wild yeast and berries. A good dose of barnyard. Some bready and caramelized malts in the finsh. Dry for an 8% ale. High carbonation. Very intriguing and tastey!

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

Sampled on 9/18/2009. This sour ale pours a cloudy dark amber/copper color from a 500ml bottle. Medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is cranberries, malt, funk and must. A medium bodied sour ale. The malts are fruity and tart. The berries are semi-sweet. The hops are earthy. Lively carbonation. Nice balance. The brett is fairly obvious, the nice funk and the very dry finish. The lacto is not so much. This beer is getting drier and funkier as it warms. I like this one a lot. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean, smooth and dry. Aftertaste is slightly sweet and fruity.

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

500 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 8%. Despite being brewed with some brettanomyces and bacteria, this is a Fruit Beer, not a Sour Ale. Starts pouring out of the bottle by its own will. Brownish red colour, moderate head. Pleasant aroma of "tyttebær" / lingonberries (= a kind of wild Nordic mountain / forest cranberries), also notes of "old farmhouse attic". The flavour has distinct notes of tyttebær, and is fairly dry, with a very moderate acidity (much less than expected). This is no fruit lambic. The finish is a bit "empty", I’d like some bitterness there. The 8% alcohol is nowhere to be found though - untill you rise from the chair ... If I did not know the ABV, I would recommend this as a nice refreshment beer after hard work, fridge cold. As it warms up, it does not improve, and while still being definitely drinkable, it does not quite live up to the high standards of Nøgne Ø. Should (and will) not be a permanent beer in the Nøgne Ø range.