Ink & Dagger
Amundsen Bryggeri & Spiseri

Copenhagen 1/2 2024. 44 cl can from Meny, Borups Allé, Frb. F. A usual colorful Amundsen can with a drawing of a triangle containing a snake impaled by a dagger.

Pours unclear, pale yellow with a mod-sized white head. Stable. Settles as thin, patchy layer of foam. Clinging to the sides of the glass.

Aroma is moderately intense with a sweet odor of malts and Stone fruit with citric notes. Sweet pale malts, bread and peach. Thin scent of lime. Moderate lacing.

Medium strong carbonation. Thin, oily, lively and tingling texture.

Flavor is moderately intense with a medium strong sweetness followed by a lighter bitterness. Aftertaste is sweetish and thin. Lingers shortly. Finish is watery.

Not very impressionable for a beer sporting an impaled reptile.

 

Good American IPA from a Norwegian brewery. Drank a pint at the Gastropub outdoor venue in Oslo Norway. Golden amber color with a fairly fast fading foamy white head. Both tropical fruit and piney aroma and flavor. Nice bitterness level but balanced with malt presence. Crisp a d medium bodied, this one goes down nicely.

April 2017: 330 ml can, from Vinmonopolet; Nettbutikken. ABV is 6.5%. Deep golden colour, slightly hazy, moderate white head. Aroma of pine, spruce, grapefruit and mango Well hopped flavour with same elements as the aroma. Not too sweet, good bitterness, easy to drink. Might well buy again.

 

2d American review out of 8, my first of brewer and it's centerlane but fresh and delicious, discovered at Bee Beer in Madrid, got the t-shirt.
a) Peppery lace over persistent head over yellow body, slightly hazed.
s) Lemon, pineapple, almost a lemon lollipop.
t) Follows smell and doesnt add enough difference, bread alone.
f) Peppery, puckery, clean but too citric.
o) Mid-pack but very clean fresh and powerful aroma.

 

 

 

 

4

Served on keg via electric pump at the Head of Steam on Wilmslow road East Didsbury
Serves a slightly hazy lemon jello coloured body with perfect white head
Aroma is diluted by being icy cold but I can detect grapefruit and pineapple
That’s the flavour but with a sour edge
Slightly thin

Pours a slightly cloudy, golden amber coloration with a small, fizzy head. Smells of light biscuity malt and quite floral hops, with tropical notes notes of papaya, guava and pineapple, with a light grassiness as well. Taste follows the nose, with some light biscuity malt and quite grassy, floral hops, with tropical notes of papaya, guava and pineapple, as well as just a hint of pine and a slightly odd, earthy/musty note. Finishes with a light bitterness and some tropical fruit and peanuts lingering in the aftertaste. Smooth mouthfeel with a medium body and carbonation.

This is certainly an odd one, and not in a good way, really. While it does have some nice, almost juicy tropical notes, it's just way to floral and grassy for my personal taste, with an odd earthy/musty note that I've never really encountered in an IPA like this.

 

 

 

 

Pours a fairly clear yellow, with a massive head.

Smell is refreshing and juicy, with notes of peach, tea, pine and pineapple.

Taste is refreshing as well, with pineapple, floral hops, tea an pine sharing your palate with ease. Finish is very dry.

Mouthfeel is medium, well carbonated.

Overall, a very good and interesting IPA, that tastes pretty unique.

 

Can. Very cloudy, rich yellow with just a hint of orange. Big head that falls off but never disappears.
Ripe banana and mango. Lighter than it sounds.
Tropical fruit with a dry, slightly dusty finish.
Light body but good level of bitterness that enriches the mouthfeel.
Really appreciated this AIPA brewed in Norway. Fruity rather than piney with a really solid, bitter edge. Very enjoyable.