Nøgne Ø Saison
Bottle: Unfiltered
Ingredients: Wheat and lager malt; East Kent Goldings and Crystal hops; Belgian ale yeast, and local Grimstad water.
One of our most refreshing brews, made for those hot summer days, but satisfying year ’round. Recommended serving temperature 8°C/45°F. Goes well with seafood, particularly oysters.
Ingredients: Wheat and lager malt; East Kent Goldings and Crystal hops; Belgian ale yeast, and local Grimstad water.
One of our most refreshing brews, made for those hot summer days, but satisfying year ’round. Recommended serving temperature 8°C/45°F. Goes well with seafood, particularly oysters.
3.5
866 reviews
Grimstad, Norway
Community reviews
Fine beer, nothing special though. Yellow and muddy, some hops, citrus, little bit of spices. Crispy and refreshing.
(jaune pâle, nez fruit jaune, bouche ample sur fruit jaune, ~ronde, à boire l’été sans penser, ~gourmet, 0-transcendance)
Couleur orangée, légère mousse. Nez sur la mandarine, leger savon. Gout sur agrume-coing-vert amer astringent. Corps épais sans carbo avec des notes sucre vieux fruits et forte amertume astringente "verte" en fin de bouche. Saison not my style
27.01.2018 (Brewed 26.06.2017) RATED 3.2 (AROMA 6/10, APPEARANCE 4/5, TASTE 5/10, PALATE 3/5, OVERALL 14/20).
Slightly hazy gold colour. Small head.
Nose: Very fruity, lemon, orange, yeast, sweet cereal, some caramel. Nice.
Taste: Quite fruity, soft citrus, cereal, some caramel. Medium body. Appetising. Fruity, smooth exit and medium long aftertaste.
12.07.2013 (7 year old, brewed February 2006) RATED 3.3 (AROMA 5/10, APPEARANCE 4/5, TASTE 7/10, PALATE 3/5, OVERALL 14/20).
Colour: An orange-brown copper colour, with just slight hazyness. Nose: Typical bottle-mature notes on the nose but also clearly hops and (light) caramel. Taste & Palate: Mild, rounded, mature. Medium body. Still refreshing with citrus fruit and a nice touch of bitter from the hops. May have lost a little weight and some carbonation from ageing but otherwise still going strong in its 7th year and still a good summer / seafood beer. And, rather unusually for well aged beers, here the taste was better than the nose.
Bottle 50cl, a cloudy copper beer with good head. Nose is orange, quince. Taste is quite sweet with a vegetable astringency. Aroma is on apple and sugar notes, floral background, slightly honey notes, old apples finish.
0,3 litre Bottle from Tax Free Store Gardermoen. Cloudy light Golden with medium white head. Wheat aroma and taste. Smooth
330ml bottle from M&S for £1. Hazy straw colour. Flat, no head. A light refreshing beer with grainy malts and citrus fruits without being acidic. Nice mellow summer ale.
Bottle brought from M&S. Nice deep orange appearance with a white head. Very wheat and citrus nose. Tropical palate with a dry finish. One of the better Saisons I've had!
Bottle. Reduced to a Quid at M&S, Byfleet. A musty hay and citrus. Apple skin. A hazy amber. Thin bubbly white head. Light bitter tinged sour. Hazy acidic fruit. Marmalade. Light bodied. Thin but slick. Average carbonation. Low key finish. Restrained. Pleasant enough.
Goudgeel, troebel, voldoende koolzuur en witte schuimkraag.
Aroma: Moutig, tarwe, Citrus, fruit, banaan, peer. Meer zoetig dan het licht zure van een saison....ik vermoed de Belgische gist die het verschil maakt.
Smaak: In de smaak komt wel iets meer grassig en zuur naar voren maar toch ook weer iets zoet. Duidelijk zure van tarwe, fruitig van appel, peer en banaan en veel redelijke bitter met een scherp randje van spicy hops.
Prima dorstlesser.
Onder medium body, voldoende prikkel van koolzuur, zacht en redelijk vol mondgevoel, afdronk is spicy, grassig en redelijk bitter.
Very tasty beer with hoppy, almost floral notes. Goes down easy. Not like other saisons that I have tried; more similar to a smooth pale ale, I would say. I've not been diss appointed by this brewery yet. Sublime.
Amber with medium white head. Nice aroma with yeast notes. Good hops bitterness medium old fruits sourness and just some sweetness on the background. Bitter and sour aftertaste. Simply nice!
Off white rocky head stayed on a hazy golden body.
Sweet citrus, yeast, fresh, earthy aroma.
Medium bodied, highly carbonated on the palate & dry on the back. Very soft.
Sweet fruity tastes with haribos, banana & yeast followed by bitter dry finish
Bottle. Brewed Mar 2016; BB Mar 2018; Drank July 2017 - Hazy yellow gold in colour. Small foamy white head. Good lacing. Good hop bitterness, grassy hops. Lemon and orange citrus fruity. Spicy; coriander. Yeasty; sedimented. Toasty malts, wheaty. Moderately bitter hoppy fruity spicy throughout. Quite dry. Dry bitter hoppy finish. Liked this. Nice hoppy saison. (2017-07)
Pours a very thin layer of fizzy head and has a cloudy orange yellowy appearance. Weak lacing. Mild grains, toasty and nutty malt aromas. Very light earthy hops, barely noticeable, as well. Flavours of barley malts, wheats, tangerines and blood oranges. Some spices make an appearance in the finish. Medium bodied. faint carbonation. Slight prickly sensation and a slick warming mouthfeel. Odd combination of malts and hops. Pretty good but one bottle is sufficient.
Very sweet in taste, refreshing, hazy and golden in colour. Light/small head
A good refreshing saison. Crisp, light and refreshing. I enjoyed with a curry where it offered a better counterbalance than a lager would. A really nice beer and would drink again, especially in hot weather.
Blond colour with light haze and thin head. Aroma is fairly sweet and yeasty. Tastes fairly yeasty and dry. Light fruitiness. Some apricot.
Bottle at home. There was a definite saison "bite" to the beer, but it was quite muted. It was a very pleasant beer, but I was expecting a bit more from it. Nice looking, good head, low carbonation, good flavour and a nice mouthfeel. Just a bit Meh!
330 ml bottle @home.
Bread aroma,golden/amber hazy colour.
Clove/yeast taste. Dry and refreshing.
Good.
Aroma:
Medium aroma of malts, caramel, Saison yeast, fruit, bread and hops.
Appearance:
Turbid/opaque golden/amber beer with a slight/medium off-white head.
Taste/Palate:
Starts medium sweet with malts, caramel, Saison yeast and fruit; ends slightly bitter and dry with bread and hops.
Overall:
This beer is rather intense, complex and balanced. Decent Saison flavour with a tat more hops than your average one. Perfect appearance, but the palate is simply okay and nothing more. The aroma could have been stronger as well.
Bottle in garden, 18th June 17. 31 degrees today and a great day for a saison. Pours clear and straw colour. Aroma is yeast, citrus farmhouse ale. Taste is clean, yeast, clove spice, citrus. Really refreshing and just the job for the heat.
330ml dark bottle, unfiltered. Probably from Tesco, but I can’t remember. I like saison, so I especially look forward to drinking a beer that describes itself as a saison, and then get disappointed when it doesn’t deliver in those areas I most identify with that style. This is a fairly lacklustre example of a saison, lacking life and character and zest, replacing that instead with hop bitterness. In this case the hops are English, so the style I like, but for me they sit uncomfortably in a beer I associate with zest and fruit and a delightful malt and yeast character. The hops here are heavy and dirty and twiggy, and they bring the beer down. This is unfiltered but the beer lacks life - there’s no head, just a light scummy foam. Each to their own when making a beer, but if you are to make a beer and then name if after a certain style, then at least make more of an effort to brew it in that style.
So, forget that this is a saison and I can handle it a bit better, but I would still be uncomfortable with the thin body for a 6.5% beer, and the flat bitterness of the hops (not aromatic, simply bittering). This is not a beer I’m enjoying or am likely to want to try again.
I swirled it at the end in order to rouse the yeast and give the beer some life, body, zest, character, whatever, and it did lift slightly with some honeyed sweetness touched with lemon and coriander, so I can see there is potential here, and perhaps I just got a tired bottle. Am willing to try this again.
Bottle. Cloudy straw yellow. Small white head. Stays as a thin layer on beer. Aroma: apples & pears, spice, wheat, blossom, earth & hay. Light to medium body. Soft carbo. Dry flavour. Spicy yeast. Earth, grassy hops. A bit floral. Not bad.
Bottle. Pours medium golden weizen with some opacity and a thick white foam subsiding slowly. Scent is dense notes of caramel, light dusty properties, honeycomb wax. Taste is medium notes of pepper, light frothy texture, and medium sweetness. Perfectly matured. Finish of floral properties. Very great.
Think this must be my favourite saison to date limited I know. doughy with a nice Belgium yeast refreshing
Perus-saison. Tasapainoinen. Ruma. Mutta hyvän makuinen. On ollut parempiakin.
Bottle. Farmyard yeasty aroma, smells spicy. Crisp, well attenuated and very dry. Tasty and refreshing, its a fine take on a Belgian saison, albeit not quite as good as Dupont.
330ml from bottle bought at M&S. Yeasty aroma, sour notes in it, pours a decent head. Overall, it produces a weird feeling, not usual to the previous saison that I have drunk, more negative than positive
Blonde bien dorée et translucide avec une légère mousse blanche. Le nez est printanier voir estival : céréales chaudes, cacahuète, paille, foin, herbe juste coupée, champ de colza, muguet, citron, pamplemousse et mandarine, un parfum légèrement aillé et poivré, muscade, noisette, caramel, abricot, ananas... C’est frais, vivifiant, léger comme une brise de juin. Carbonatation vive, texture ronde et souple presque huileuse sur le fond de la gorge, beaucoup de corps pour une simple blonde avec quelques sucres résiduels bienvenus, levures discrètes mais droites, amertume légère mais probante. Les flaveurs sont équilibrés entre les notes de malts, la fleur, les agrumes et l’amertume. Cette dernière se révèle efficace et offre un contre pouvoir intéressant aux sucres très présents. De manière surprenante, ce sont ces sucres qui démarquent cette bière. On croirait boire une bonne Lager, avec le même plaisir léger, mais en fait elle est beaucoup plus riche et complexe et accompagnera tout aussi bien un repas qu’un apéritif sous le cagnard. L’alcool aide en cela car les 6.5% masqués par le douceur s’avèrent efficients et portent bien les arômes. Le final est un peu un mix de tout cela, amertume, alcool, malts, houblons, agrumes et sucres, avec une longueur intéressante pour ce type de bière. Pas le produit du siècle, mais une Saison de très bonne facture et typée qui, comme précisé par le brasseur, accompagnera parfaitement un plat de crustacé à la manière d’un Chablis ou d’un Sancerre. Une fois de plus Nøgne Ø fait mouche ! Bouteille 33cl, Boissons du Monde, Saint-Egrève.