Spitsbergen Pale Ale
Svalbard Bryggeri
- From:
- Svalbard Bryggeri
- Norway
- Style:
- American Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 4.75%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 6.15%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 24, 2025
- Added:
- Jun 18, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
3.28/5 rDev -8.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.28/5 rDev -8.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
330 ml can, at Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 4.7%. Orange colour, moderate white head. Aroma of fruity and floral hops, also notes of caramel. Light bodied. Medium dry flavour, only a hint of caramel, medium bitter hops, but not so much hop flavour besides the bitterness. Still quite refreshing and okay to drink.
Jan 29, 2021
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.79/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.79/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
At only 28 IBU, this was a very pleasant pale.
Spitsbergen has an interesting best-of-both-worlds tactic with the brewers modeling it after the Burton on Trent (the malty softness, I presume) and then concocting a medley of American hops. Amazingly, Svalbard pulls off these opposite approaches to refreshment and flavor. Had out of a can at 35,000 feet on Norwegian Air after 5 weeks in the UK, this seemed like an appropriate metaphor given that I was going back home. I was going to have a second can, but I had just put myself on a beer diet... and I did manage to restrain myself after a long second thought. But if I was under normal rules, a second can would have been in order. Recommended.
I went on Svalbard's website and see that they brew just south of the North Pole. I do not believe it is possible to inhabit further north long enough to brew. So this is a once in a lifetime experience. I also want to applaud Svalbard's persistence.
But living up there follows the dictate of 3 Floyds: "It's not normal."
Jun 22, 2019Spitsbergen has an interesting best-of-both-worlds tactic with the brewers modeling it after the Burton on Trent (the malty softness, I presume) and then concocting a medley of American hops. Amazingly, Svalbard pulls off these opposite approaches to refreshment and flavor. Had out of a can at 35,000 feet on Norwegian Air after 5 weeks in the UK, this seemed like an appropriate metaphor given that I was going back home. I was going to have a second can, but I had just put myself on a beer diet... and I did manage to restrain myself after a long second thought. But if I was under normal rules, a second can would have been in order. Recommended.
I went on Svalbard's website and see that they brew just south of the North Pole. I do not believe it is possible to inhabit further north long enough to brew. So this is a once in a lifetime experience. I also want to applaud Svalbard's persistence.
But living up there follows the dictate of 3 Floyds: "It's not normal."
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