Kvasir
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

 

Found a bottle at my shop on sale for 5 bucks into a pint glass. Pours a brown reddish hue surprisingly with a bit of carbonation in the glass just a ring with sticky lacing. Smells sour musky wood some grape and herbal hops. A strange beer indeed sour but herbal mixed slightly sweet bitter at the same time. Some noted cough syrup flavors and I could kind of see that. Body isn't bad I got no stinging alcohol it has aged out pretty well.

Overall not my favorite beer I picked up. Would I have paid 15 bucks for it 9 years ago? Probably not. Worth the 5 dollars not? While not skunked its definitely something I really don't enjoy. Purchase with caution!

 

 

 

this was an excellent experience. love this series of reviving ancient brews

This murky, amber bottle pour with tan cap, hosts a candy sweet aroma with some tart fruit notes. The flavor is herbal. Light molasses and slightly sour grape flavors balance each other. There are woody aspects too.

 

Look, I rate these history beer higher because this is what they are supposed to taste like

Aged 2 years so may be a shell of former self although it seems to be on par with other reviews.

L: tea like cranberry juice
A: cranberry, licorice, tea, birch, and wet basement
F: gueze lambic like, tarty, juice, thin to medium, almost like a tea with some alcohol added
T: cranberry, birch, licorice, lambic, tea, honey, lemon, wet basement, slightly boozy along with some raspberry rootbeer
O: not too bad of a brew, reminded me of a not so good lambic but good in its own right.

 

 

Got this in a flight of 4 aged beers at dogfish head
Bottled 2013 drank 2017
Look - thin dark golden color with no real head
Smell - light fruit punch
Taste - lacking much taste, super super super light fruit punch. Kind of like when you forget to add enough powder or suger to your fruit punch
Feel - medium bodied syrup with no real carbonation
Overall - needs more taste

Orange /bronze color.smells tar,sour,various fruit,and alcohol. Definitely the alcohol comes out in the taste as well as the fruit and sour tart taste.. otherwise it also had a taste that reminded me of wine if all things. It can get a bit sour but otherwise I found it to be very different in a good way.it's something to try when you want to get out of the box

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09/23/2014

Aroma: Sour fruit,
Appearance: Reddish orange Clear look.
Taste: tart cranberries, orange rind.
Feel: Flat.

Not a fan.

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Look: Pours a cloudy, unfiltered burnt orange color with a thick two finger head of off white foam.

Smell: Delightfully tart with aromas of cranberry and sugarplums, even raspberry. Herbal notes of english tea and honeysuckle.

Taste: Hmm... this one is hard to describe. Upfront, you're greeted by the warmth of the alcohol. The heat from the ABV combines with the flavor of sour cranberry and sweet birch syrup to give the beer a slightly medicinal and bitter, pleasantly tart and sweet Ludens cough drop-esque taste. There are some herbaceous notes of tea in the background, dancing with sweet notes of honey and very, very mild caramel. Finishes bittersweet with more notes of wet tea, tart berries and alcohol.

Feel: Noticeably boozy but not extremely hot or alcoholic on the palate. Medium body with low carbonation.

Overall Comments: Very intriguing. My only complaint is that the medicinal, bitter flavor can get a little too much at times. Otherwise a really unique beer with an incredibly interesting flavor profile.

 

 

Sample while checking out the expo at HomeBrewCon.
Slightly hazy light copper color with a decent off white head. Tart berries light earthy herbal something to counter. Weird for sure but it kind of works.

 

An odd one from DFH, but interesting anyway. Not overwhelming in any of its attributes, most of the aromas and flavors are subtle. Enjoyable but Its probably not going to get me to do a cartwheel lol.

 

 

 

Large botle served in a Belgian snifter. Bottle Date: 8/6/15

Appearance: slightly hazy copper-amber; not much lacing gets left on the glass, though.

Aroma: fruity, moderately strong and pleasant. Suggests both tart and sweet elements. Hints of honey and berries.

Taste: tart and sweet in about equal measure, with a bit less bitterness. Cranberry is pretty obvious; lingonberries less so; birch syrup not at all. Suggestions of plums and faint cherries.

Feel: Near medium carbonation. Medium-full body; near puckering tartness.

Overall: very interesting; engaging and complex but not challenging. I'm glad I got to try this.

 

 

 

The beer was poured into a tumbler at about 40 degrees.

Appearance - a slightly cloudy, bronze colored brew. Definite hints of reddish color. Carbonation was lively, and an aggressive pour produced half a glass of foam that quickly fell to a cap. Some cling.

Smell - honey is right in the forefront on this beer. Then some herbal aromas that I will assume are from the yarrow and other herbs used in this concoction. I don't know specifically what these things smell/taste like, but suffice to say there are herbal/floral smells. I get a faint fruit in the aroma, and a wheat/biscuit undercurrent. Very mild fruit/berry note on the nose.

Taste - honey and sweetness on the initial taste. The honey is dominant but somehow fails to overwhelm. There are herb-like flavors (again, assume they are what they claim), and not too much in the way of actual berry or cranberry flavor. Since this beer is an ancient ale, supposedly 3500 years old, not sure how cranberries would be in the recipe since true cranberry is a native North American fruit, but OK it has some red berry flavor. There is a significant bitter punch to this beer that subsides quickly to be replaced by a sensation of sweetness (not sticky) and the phenolic mouth feel characteristic of cranberries. I get a sensation that reminds of of a gose - I swear there is a sense of saltiness. There is a mild tartness thanks to the berries. It is an interesting, if somewhat jumbled, combination of flavors.

The mouthfeel - this is where I get more of a sense of the berries. Not so much the flavor, but the "phenolic" feeling cranberry imparts to the tongue (I work with them every day). The acidity reinforces that. The 10% doesn't hide, but it is not obtrusive, either. The beer is light bodied, a bit of carbonation tingle, dry and astringent on the finish.

I like the ancient ales in general as much for the story as the beer, and this one is no exception. But love or hate, they are an experience. This one was a good experience - not great, but enjoyable enough. I don't think it can be judged to style - nobody alive knows what this brew actually was, but gruit is probably as close as it gets and it fits the rather loose definition, maybe a bit loosely. It's not a smooth drinker, but it does contain enough interesting highlights to make it worth a try for the slightly adventurous.

Belgian yeast with cranberry, fruit, nutmeg, and spices.