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Hvalur 2
Brugghús Steðja
- From:
- Brugghús Steðja
- Iceland
- Style:
- Smoked Beer
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- Needs more ratings
- Avg:
- 2.54 | pDev: 53.94%
- Reviews:
- 1
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 20, 2019
- Added:
- Feb 21, 2016
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 3
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This beer is specially brewed for the Icelandic midwinter festival called "Þorri" (pronounced 'Thorri'). What makes this beer special is its ingredients: Pure Icelandic water, malted barley, hops...and sheep dung-smoked whale testicles. Yes...testicles. Icelanders have used dry sheep dung for smoking for centuries, due to a lack of trees on the island. In creating this beer, we chose to prepare the whale testicles in a similar manner, by smoking the meat before using it in the brew. This gives the beer an excellent smoked taste, as well as imparting a unique flavour to the beer....
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by Mvp1628 from Iceland
5/5 rDev +96.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
5/5 rDev +96.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
Very good tasting beer.
Feb 20, 2019
Reviewed by Stevedore from Oregon
1.62/5 rDev -36.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
1.62/5 rDev -36.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
12oz bottle. Thanks for Hjortur for generously gifting me this one. I think. Anyway, pours a light brown body with a one finger white head, short retention and no lacing. Smells like a very malty brown ale; a little bit of smoke, but otherwise relatively heavy on caramel. Flavour is excessively bland; not much to taste here. There is a bit of smoke and earthiness, but otherwise the body is light and the flavour is lacking any substance to it. Was worth the novelty to taste, especially after our visit, but not something I would ever recommend to anyone.
Feb 12, 2017
Rated by Dita from Slovenia
1/5 rDev -60.6%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
1/5 rDev -60.6%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Using whale parts for beer is terrible!
Mar 02, 2016
Rated by aderd from Russian Federation
1/5 rDev -60.6%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
1/5 rDev -60.6%
look: 1 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
Disgusting. In Russian it is called "otvratno".
Mar 02, 2016
Hvalur 2 from Brugghús Steðja
Beer rating:
2.54 out of
5 with
9 ratings
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