Brutal Brewing Hale To Nothing Eco Ale

Brutal Brewing Hale To Nothing Eco Ale

Think about it. If nothing wasn’t here to keep things apart, everything would be one big, stressfull, balled up, messy thing. Probably boring too. Which is why pausing to enjoy nothing is a very good thing. With Hale to Nothing, of course.

There’s nothing artificial or phoney in it. Only good stuff.
Like organic malted barley and hops that give this ale its own, individual refreshing taste.
We think that’s something special.
So relax.
Enjoy.
Nothing in particular

We use echological Pilsener- and Munchenermalt. For hops, we use echological Perle plus Centennial and Fuggles. It has a flavoury taste with a slightly hint of citrus.

Hale is somewhat malty and well balanced.
2.4
190 reviews
Grängesberg, Sweden

Community reviews

3.1 Bottle. Amber color with white head. Aroma is earthy, buttery, grapefruit. Taste is buttery, earthy hopspice, some grapefruity flavours. Oily mouthfeel with low carbonation. Alright for me (it is a bit buttery though).
2.7 Bottle, pale gold, grassy HP's and sweetish malt nose, crisp grassy bitterness with a touch of lime or lemongrass and a thin malt body, simple and easy drinking, like a Pils/ale crossover.
2.3 33 cl bottle, BB May 10th 2018(?). Clear, golden amber, thick slightly off-white head, lively carbonation. Aroma is bready and biscuity, not much hops to the nose. Mouthfeel is bitter, resiny and a bit dry. It tastes almost like a pilsener or light lager, without the sharp bitterness to it. I see no reason why I should bother to buy another one...
2.5 Bottle at KØ17. Bready aroma. Hazy golden colour. White head. Grainy flavour, OK malty. Tastes lagered, but not necessarily old. Rough bitterness in the finish.
2.6 Skunky not enjoyable. StrongHop flavor but just of bitter. aroma is grain only. Some sweetness. Nothing enjoyable .
2.1 Bouteille de 33 cl ramenée de Suède via le Systembolaget. Bel orange/rosé à peu de mousse cependant. Odeurs : orange, fleurs ou légumes. Flaveurs : sur les fleurs et les épices. La bouche est fraîche mais timide, pas très affirmée : un peu de caramel, un peu de poivre, de fruits et de savon. Plutôt banal : comme de l’eau + quelques épices.
2.2 Pours golden, with a head that pulls a disappearing trick. Aroma of pilsner, metal and some flowery notes. Taste is malty, biscuits, honey and a crispy bitterness. Kind of boring blond ale.
2.6 Bottle from Systembolaget Hansa, Malmo - golden pour with whit head. Sweet malty and grassy hoppy aroma and taste, vague light citrus lemony hop notes, straw, bready malts, grassy bitter finish.
3.0 Clear orange with a small white head. Aroma is wood, oranges and malt. Taste is caramel, lime and grapefruit.
1.8 Ei minkäänlaisia asioita. Valitse toinen. Jos haluat käyttää myös tätä, katso peiliin.
3.0 Bottle. Pours orange with white head. Aroma and taste is sweet with hoppy notes.
2.6 A light coppery colour, a head is small and blond. Aroma has caramel, wood and some ripe fruitness. Quite fresh. Taste has caramel, wood, hay, the bitterness is slightly harsh. Almost medium bodied. Harmless beer.
2.8 330ml bottle from Systembolaget, Hornstull. Clear dark golden, medium size head that disappear quickly and completely without leaving any lacing. Biscuits aroma with grassy hops. Light dry mouthfeel. Mild grassy taste, bread and biscuits.
2.2 Hale to nothing is, well, hale to nothing! A rather bland English style ale with hints of bread, malt and not much else in the aroma/taste. I did not have any prior expectations before drinking this beer.
2.0 330ml bottle from Systembolaget Stockholm, quaffed in our hotel. Pours clear amber, small white head. Bready aroma. Taste is, as the label describes, of nothing in particular. Pale malt, bready, light bitterness. Rather boring.
2.0 Ljus och klar. Smaklös och trist. Har inget som sticket ut. Metallsmak är det man minns
2.5 Small bottle I should’ve jettisoned in Stockholm. Brassy orange with a narrow white collar retreating to a halo. Meagre polished conifer, boiled sweet orange aroma. Overly fizzy with notes of monkey nut, orange, weak stewed leafiness. Sesame hints. A bit bland and cooked to death. Dull.
2.8 Bottle. Clear Amber, small white head Aroma of tobacco, peach Taste bitter water, fizzy. Grape fruit but not fresh
3.3 Bottle, 33 cl, Sherlock’s, Uppsala. Decent ale, though a bit too hoppy. Intense initial taste, small bitter finish.
2.0 Barwa złota, klarowne, średnia średnio i grubopęcherzykowa piana, krążkujaca. Aromat bitterowy, nieciekawy, nieco chmielowy, lekki mokry karton. Smak słodowy, woddnisto-biszkoptowy, ścierka/szmata, lekko chmielowy, niska nieco zalegająca goryczka. Butelka 02.06.2016
1.9 Backlog from lost & found notes: Aroma of paper and bread with some rye. Somewhat grainy in the taste with sublte hints from hops and citrus. Slightly thin.
2.7 Gylden med aroma og smak av sitrus, gress og malt. Smaken er samme. Kort ettersmak..
2.4 Flaske fra Systembolaget Vasagatan Stockholm, delt med Einar: det hjelper ikke med en fancy etikettdesign, dette er en heller kjedelig engelsk bitter uten sjarme eller særpreg. Litt gress og malt, men ikke mye. Særdeles kort ettersmak.
2.4 Bottle from Systembolaget. Light golden pour with a frothy head. Notes of sweat, plastic, some burnt rubber, grains and grass.
2.6 25.05.2015. 0,33l Bottle. Systembolaget Strömstad. Golden yellow colour with white head. Unclear. Bitter with ripe apples. Aroma of apples and cabbage. Bitter . Medium body. Aftertaste is apples with a sligthly sour note.
2.2 Bottle sample at a tasting at Dancing Camel Florentin. Pours yellow to brown with a small head, aroma of marmalade, toffee, caramel, flavor is bitter with bread, slightly acidic, light bodied.
1.9 Golden color, quickly falling down frothy head. Unbalanced aroma of herbs, tea, hay and lemon. Strange herbal, hay taste, medium carbonation. Not good at all.
2.4 Bottle at home. Pours a slightly hazy, dark orange color with an off-white head. Has a fruity and sweet aroma with apricot, bread, dried fruit and sweet candy. The flavor is pretty tame and feels a bit unbalanced with a strange bitterness in the end. Pale malt and hay dominates and there’s a slightly sour touch. Has a slick and light mouth feel, and a light bitterness. A sweet ale but has light and weird flavor.
0.6 For fuck’s sake... Found the bottle at Systembolaget, stupidly fell for the nonsensical text on the bottle and decided to try it. Missed the part where it says Spendrups is making this - a brewery I think it would be complementary to call mediocre. It’s disappointing from the get-go: Looks like the corporate piss it turned out to be right away, with that cheap lager look and a head so rapidly dissipating you’ll miss it if you blink. Not promising, but judge not a book by its cover. Judge it by its smell. ...Which isn’t particularly good either. It has a skunky, metallic taste. If brewers want to make their bottles beer taste "just like draught" they could take a page of Brutal Brewing’s/Spendrups’s book - Hale of Nothing has the distinct smell and look of a shit lager served from the filthy, uncleaned draught lines of the licensed pizzeria or "kvarterskrog" where the local alcoholics go to kick back a few pints every afternoon. And the taste to boot as well - metallic, weak taste with weak carbonation and a notable lack of anything resembling hoppy or malty flavours. It even provokes the nasty mouthfeel one of the cheap lagers give you. All in all, the "pale ale" promise turns out to be false advertising - there plenty of mass-market ales and even lagers that pack more flavour. This beer is borderline fraudulent, and an excellent lesson about the "crafty beers" created by big producers. No thanks.
2.6 Organic pale ale from Sweden. Medium, egg-white, slightly lacing and reasonably stable head, leaving a steady rim around the edges; pure and warm, clear ’old gold’ colour with low sparkling - this looks more like a pale lager than like a pale ale. Somewhat skunky aroma (lightstruck hops) so, even if this comes from a brown bottle, this must have been exposed to light for a long time; other impressions I get are toasted bread, sweaty and sourish grains, a suggestive hint of dried orange peel but not to the extent where it suggests to actually having been used, flour, weeds, cigarette tobacco, iron. Minerally onset, dryish, sourish grains as in a cheap pale lager, some subdued bready malt sweetness underlying this, very low fruitiness though a faint suggestion of dried fruits is there, lightly nutty, somewhat metallic, with grassy and leafy, ’low’ hop bitterness setting in rather quickly and leading to a drying, relatively long, bitter finish, not unlike an English bitter - or indeed pale ale; lightly honeyish and nutty malt sweetishness lingers as well. Lacks body and character in the malts department to be a credible pale ale, though. Quenching and acceptable alright, but I can’t help feeling I am actually tasting some more-than-averagely-hopped lager. Not too good for this style, not really bad in isolation of style. Don’t know what to think of this one... In any case: big thanks again to Sabine for buying me this in a Systembolaget in Sweden!