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Holy Crap! Where to begin...Danish? Norwegian? English? So much good beer, so little liver capacity...

New Danish Beer:

Norrebro Bryghus - North Bridge Extreme: North Bridge Extreme is the brewers gift to Anders on the 1 year aniversary for the opening of Nørrebro Bryghus. It is inspired from the South-West Californian triple IPA's. It is brewed on English ale-malt, adjusted with different colormalt and spiced with enourmous amounts of hops. A dark golden extremely bitter ale with a distinct hop aroma.

Norrebro Bryghus - Skargaards Porter: An authentic Porter at 6% ABV. The name refers to this being the second Nordic guest brew, that is developed together with Lasse Ericsson from Nynäshamn Ångbryggeri, south of Stockholm. The beer is top fermented and added honey before the fermentation, which results in a soft and creamy coffee black porter with a soft aroma of chocolate, coffee, and nuts. The flavor is dry, light, and elegant with notes of liquorice and dried fruits. The bitterness is low and the harmonious aftertaste is dominated by liquorice.

Mikkeller - Stateside IPA: Mikkellers tribute to american micro-brew. This IPA is brewed with three kinds of american hops (chinook, cascade and amarillo), fermented with an american ale yeast strain.

Olfabrikken - 100 Gram IPA: This is the second in a range of Ølfabrikken special ales.
Starting with the rich and slightly sweet malt profile of a Belgian triple we have added a hop charge every five minutes for full duration of the boil - each hop charge 100 grams larger than the previous one. The result is an immensely bitter ale - a 100 IBU's of course. Ølfabrikken 100 gram IPA is, of course, unpasteurized, unfiltered and bottle conditioned like all of our beers.


New Norwegian Beer:

Nogne-O - Saison: Saison fra Nøgne Ø er flaskemodnet, dvs. upasteurisert og ufiltrert. Denne flasken bør derfor få anledning til å stå rolig slik at ølets naturlige sedimenter kan samles på bunnen. Saison kan nytes både med og uten disse sedimentene. Husk på dette når du heller ølet opp i glasset. Server ølet ved 8 grader C, og la det få bygge en god skumtopp i glasset. Vi anbefaler Saison til sjømat og oster. Translation? It's good.

Nogne-O - Batch #100 Barleywine: A celebration of Nøgne Ø achieving batch #100. We do this by brewing a particularly uncompromising double IPA. With Columbus hops and 80 IBU we can guarantee that this is a beer for connoisseurs!

Nogne-O - IPA: 17,5 degrees P, 60 IBU, 7,5 vol% alk. : Semi-dark, malty and very bitter ale. Copious amounts of Cascade hops gives a long finish of grapefruit and spices. This beer is so robust, it should be enjoyed by itself, but it cam be recommended with mature cheese or with a cigar. Recommended serving temperature 8 degrees Celsius.

Nogne - O - Dark Horizon 1st Edition: Dark Horizon is a ’hybrid’ - an ale that pairs the roasted bitterness of coffee with a wine-like complexity. Dark Horizon is indeed a global brew - with inspiration from the USA, malt from England, bottles from Germany, the name from Japan, sugars from Mauritius, hops from the Pacific Rim, yeast from Canada, coffee from Columbia, and, of course, our brewing skills here in Norway. Do yourself a favour and share this bottle with those you deem worthy. (At 16.5% abv and just over $20 a bottle it's probably best to share...)

Haandbryggeriet - Norse Porter: This beer is a robust porter with lots of dark malts of various kinds with a smooth taste and a nice fruitiness from the hops and a dryish aftertaste that lingers. 34 IBU's


New Belgian Beer:

De Ranke - Pere Noel: A fantastic Christmas beer, but one that defies the universal custom of a stronger, spicier beer for the holiday season. At 7% alcohol by volume, this one is relatively lighter in alcohol than the Guldenberg, and does not pack the hop punch of the XX. It combines some of the best elements of those other two beers – with a fine balance of malt and hops, complex character, a refreshing dryness, and a gorgeous cellar aroma – but is distinguished by its festive copper color. The 1999 Père Noël was a bit of a departure, with a very appealing yeasty tartness that was not readily discernible in earlier years.

Chimay Gift Packs: These great gift packs contains three bottles (1 each of the red, white, and blue label) as well as a Chimay chalice to enjoy them from.


New English Beer:

Ridgeway - Warm Welcome Nut Browned Ale: Yeeow! Especially for the holidays, a brown ale with real attitude! The malts used to make Warm Welcome are roasted to give a hearty amber-brown color and a warm, rounded nutty taste. This fine ale is dedicated to all you curious brew-lovers out there who ever had serious questions about Santa's supposed arrival by way of the chimney. (How does he do that, anyway?)

Ridgeway - Bad Elf: Olde England meets the New World in this strong, warming golden ale, brewed by Peter Scholey. Master brewer for the late and much-lamented Brakspear Brewery of Henley-on-Thames, England, Peter started his own brewing operations in 2003. Bad Elf is a hop-lover’s dream, balancing a generous amount of famous English malt with an astounding 45 ounces of fresh hops – including American Cascade – per barrel.

Ridgeway - Very Bad Elf: "Is it just my imagination," queried old Santa, surveying the scene, "or is my Elf only getting worse and worse every year? What's next? Seriously Bad Elf, I'll wager. Mark my words." This Very Bad Elf is one fine ale - rich, hardy, and flavorful, brewed to an original 1795 Thames Valley recipe, with a very special pale amber malt that is rarely used nowadays, and balanced by a modest addition of English Fuggle aroma hops. 'Ere's to your elf!

Ridgeway - Seriously Bad Elf: "A Rather Serious English Double Ale"

Ridgeway - Santa's Butt Porter: his special holiday porter is made for winter - rich and warming, the way they like it at the North Pole. It was inspired by this famous line from a well-loved children's storybook:

"And Santa sat on his great butt, enjoying a hardy brew..."

In case you find that amusing, the brewer hastens to point out that in England, "butt" refers to a certain sized barrel, in fact, holding 108 Imperial gallons. Back in the day it was quite a normal thing for a brewery to put its beer up in a large butt for storage. Still snickering, eh? Get your mind out of the gutter, or Santa will be skipping your house entirely this year.

Ridgeway - Lump of Coal Stout: Looking forward to a depressing holiday? Here is liquid consolation. This 8% bittersweet chocolate stout is the best you could hope for in these dark times. Come to think of it, considering how bad you’ve been this year, this little coal-black gem is more than you deserve for Christmas.


New German Beer:

Mahr's - Jubelfestbier: I haven't had this one since last year, and other than being classified as a Dunkel by ratebeer I can't find much of a commercial description. Here's a quote from Degarth, one of the people who's ratings I always find pleasure in reading: "Huge concentration of coffee, chocolate and roasty malts. Sort of a german porter in aroma, but with that fresh scrubbed German aroma you get in a lot of bocks and dunkels, offset by the dry fruti notes of cooked prune and raisin. Dark brown with a fluffy tan head that is mostly lasting. Cocoa, coffee, chcolate...all muted followed by toasty grains and a clean water/smoke (think hooka) finish. Very damn good. It just hits me right. I could drink a lot of this."

That's it. Now the hardest thing I'm going to do all day is decide which one to drink first...