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Nose: Mildly hopped aroma with sweet’ish hints. Golden light brown in colour. The taste is relatively sweet and surprisingly distant from a lager- more like a very light amber ale. Lightbodied with maltfeatures which really shows it’s significance midway through. A little shortlasting/light for my general taste, but I’d be happy to give it another shot sometime.
Totally clear, light golden transparent with small hat. Aroma is typhical lager. Kind of tastes like that too, but a really good one. It’s like, a blitz of freshness, before all the tastes of the ingredients strikes at once. The malts vaguely shows itself too, but only for a split second and it’s gone again, like nothing just happened.
Pours quite dark with nice hat. The low key aroma is a turn-off, but… It starts off with nut-taste, going into some strange, spicy pattern. First, just… Nutty, then to nutmeg- like taste, which which also grows by the 2nd sip. One can barely get some hints of the malts before it’s gone, so shortlasting it’s almost hard to detect. Kind of good taste in there, sorrounded by an attempt on good taste, with an ugly bitterness to it.

Dark brown colour. Pours nice small hat, carries aroma of well mature caramel, raspberries, raisins and plum. Very fresh at first, evolves into immense fruity taste before really showing it’s beauty. On the second sip, the fruits are even more present, but this time, the later elements involves a somehow woody, nuttish finesse to it. Also a small tease of quick acidity at the tip of the tongue. Great spectre of variating tastes here, and well passed the “good enough” or average- mark. I’ll be happy to repeat having this one.