Nina
Penyllan Brewery
- From:
- Penyllan Brewery
- Denmark
- Style:
- American Amber / Red Ale
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.98 | pDev: 2.76%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 29, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 04, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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This cuvée of three beers (a sour brown fermented with wild yeast, a blonde ale fermented with brettanomyces yeast and a clean saison) has been matured in a 2400 liter chianti foudre for 18 months before release. After maturation we only packaged two thirds and left the rest of the beer in the barrel, where it was topped up with fresh beer. A form of simplified solera system, that provides complexity and aged notes to the beer in a year or two.
Nina is an amber beer with white head and a complex aroma of apple, wet forest and a touch of vanilla from the oak. The flavour is light tart, with notes of red berries, plums and fresh dough complemented by toffee from toasted malt. Finish is dry with light caramel notes.
Nina is an amber beer with white head and a complex aroma of apple, wet forest and a touch of vanilla from the oak. The flavour is light tart, with notes of red berries, plums and fresh dough complemented by toffee from toasted malt. Finish is dry with light caramel notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by DraftMonger from Denmark
3.83/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 2 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.25
3.83/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 2 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.25
Copenhagen 17/4 2020. 75 cl bottle from Ølkassen webshops. Yellowish label drawing of a lady looking a bit bored on the label. 2015 batch.
Pours unclear orange with a medium-sized, bubbly, white head. Settles as thin patch of lonely foam unable to cover he surface of the beer. No lacing.
Aroma is medium intense with a light sweetish fruitiness a stronger sourness and a funky whiff. Caramel, cider and peach. Citrus and unripe gooseberries. Funky, bretty odor lurking in the background.
Light carbonation. Thin, oily, tingling texture.
Flavor is intense with a light sweetness and a strong, tart sourness. Aftertaste is tart and a bit unforgiving. A bit of wood and funk in the finish.
Not exactly well-balanced between the sweet and the sour. But sour, dry and funky. Without overdoing it. Good one.
Jul 29, 2025Pours unclear orange with a medium-sized, bubbly, white head. Settles as thin patch of lonely foam unable to cover he surface of the beer. No lacing.
Aroma is medium intense with a light sweetish fruitiness a stronger sourness and a funky whiff. Caramel, cider and peach. Citrus and unripe gooseberries. Funky, bretty odor lurking in the background.
Light carbonation. Thin, oily, tingling texture.
Flavor is intense with a light sweetness and a strong, tart sourness. Aftertaste is tart and a bit unforgiving. A bit of wood and funk in the finish.
Not exactly well-balanced between the sweet and the sour. But sour, dry and funky. Without overdoing it. Good one.
Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois
3.96/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Had on tap. Poured a burnt orange with very little foam if any. Smell was herbal and field forward, with funky yeast, sour oak, acidic grapes, grapefruit and orange following. Taste was more dialed into the grassy field and funk elements with a kiss of the wine barrel and grapefruit. Decently bitter on the finish. Interesting beer
Oct 04, 2018
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