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Norwegian beer

Beers rated February 2000
Your's truly went to Norway to see friends, and took the chance to do some beer hunting in Oslo on the way there. Sadly I failed locating beers from any of Oslo's two microbreweries and had to do with what the big compnaies could offer. The Norwegians do have a good tradition in brewing bock beers. Aass Bock which we have tried earlier might be the best example, but also Borg Bokkøl is a nice, coffeish and malty beer. they also do stronger dark beer for Christmas which are almost in the same style, and are a worthvile wrink. As one of the rigid laws controlling brewing in Norway eased off Ringnes took the chance of making a terrible lager beer at 10.2% which now claims to be the strongest in the country. Norwegian style pilseners have nothing to do with their German or Czechish counterparts, but are crisp, light bodied and lightly hopped. We also tried Marney's Red Ale which (if you disregard the label which was full of nonsense and half lies) was an OK brown ale, quite like Newcastle Brown Ale.
Place	Beer	Country	Score	JZ	PS	CG	FH	OH	ABV	Style
906	Hansa Juleøl 4.5%	Norway	3.03	3+	3+	2+	3	3	4.5%	Lager, Dark
1047	Borg Bokkøl	Norway	2.95	3-	3+	3-	3-	3+	6.6%	Lager, Bock
1175	Aass Fatøl	Norway	2.80	3	4-	2+	2+	2+	4.5%	Lager, Light
1439	Lundetangen Pilsnerøl	Norway	2.55	2+	2+	3-		3	4.5%	Lager, Light
1441	Frydenlund Juleøl	Norway	2.55	2	3+	2+	3	2	6.5%	Lager, Bock
1452	Hakon Fatøl	Norway	2.53	3	3+	2	2	2	4.0%	Lager, Light
1474	Ringnes Julebrygg	Norway	2.50	3-	2	3-	3+	2	4.5%	Lager, Dark
1477	Aass Pilsner	Norway	2.50	3-	3-	2		3-	4.5%	Lager, Light
1517	Frydenlund Bokkøl	Norway	2.46	4-	3-	2-	2+	2-	6.5%	Lager, Bock
1533	Marney's Red Ale	Norway	2.44	2+	3	3-	3	1	4.5%	Ale, British style
1556	Melanders Öl	Sweden	2.41	2-	3	3	2	2+	5.3%	Lager, Light
1599	Hansa Sterkøl	Norway	2.37	2+	2	3-	2+	3-	6.5%	Lager, Bock
1601	Aass Bayer	Norway	2.36	3-	2	2	3-	3-	4.5%	Lager, Dark
1625	Seidel Pilsner	Norway	2.34	3-	2	3-		2	4.5%	Lager, Light
1631	Gull-Mack	Norway	2.33	2+	3	1+	2	3	6.5%	Lager, Bock
1789	Hakon Pilsner	Norway	2.14	3-	2	2+	2-	2	4.5%	Lager, Light
1815	Husets Juleøl	Norway	2.11	3-	1+	3-	3+	1-	4.5%	Lager, Dark
1825	Ringnes Ekstra	Norway	2.08	3-	1+	2	2	3-	5.2%	Lager, Light
1956	Mack Isbjørn Pils	Norway	1.89	2	3	1		1+	4.5%	Lager, Light
1976	Lysholmer Double Ice	Norway	1.86	2-	2+	2	2-	2-	4.5%	Lager, Light
2174	Viking Pilsner	Iceland	1.30	2-	1-	1	3	1-	2.3%	Lager, Light
2188	Three Hearts Strongest Brew	Sweden	1.24	1+	2-	1+	1+	1-	10.0%	Lager, Bock
2200	Eagle Super Strong Beer	Norway	1.20	1+	1+	1-	2	1	10.2%	Lager, Bock
2264	Aass Vørterøl	Norway	0.43	0	1-	1-	2-	0-	0.0%	Special
Rated by: Johan Zetterlund, Per Samuelsson, Cecilia Gårdebäck, Fredrik Huldt and Oscar Hansson,

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