Sunday, October 27, 2013

Tyttebær













Nøgne Ø Tyttebær is the first ever Lambic brewed by Nøgne using 1000 kilos lingonberries. Brewed by two of the world's best brewers, Nøgne-Ø and Mikkeller a wild beer Lambic made from tyttebær (Norwegian for lingonberries) or (wild cranberry know in US) sometimes referred to as Scandinavian Cranberries.

Lovely red lingon colour to the beer even though the head was a bit on the volcano side and I guess it is due to the yeast and amount of acid in the beer as it was still alive after 3 years. Very sour lingon aroma with little else in the aroma with a bitter tartness on the flavour that was quite refreshing but bighting on the tongue. Wheat usually gives smoothness to a beer, difficult to see that in that being the case in this dry bitter brew. Tarty in the beginning with a crisp sour finish, not exactly my cup of tea but a lot better that some classic lambics that I have tasted in the past that were 100 times even more sour and bitter.

Always nice to try a once off beer from Nøgne that took 9 months to ferment and more than a year to age in bottle. If you like your beer with huge amounts of carbonation and tannin like bitter then Lambic is your best bet, I prefer my beers with little to no acid.

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