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Polly 10

• 8️⃣3️⃣8️⃣9️⃣ • leftovers from MBCC’24 • another UNO! • definitely best of show today! • don’t really get significant coconut and cocoa (as everyone else), but when it’s rich, strong, “all in ALL” you really don’t need more…

Polly 10

• happy•holiday•salute with and to the well dressed Thin White Duke of Sorö • last one before The Duke checking out • AND what an exit beer!! • fast lane checkout💨

Single Estate Vintage Ale 2023

• fyraftens•flight • nice try! • overripe apple -, slightly dark smoke -, and oaky nose • definitely sensing the smoked whisky and although not being for the weak one of Gods shepherds, it’s quite balanced considering the style • would def’ drink again!

Power

• backlog | 12/07/24 • “kaste gris”-, card- and board games night at my sons place • Kaste Gris miraculously ended 5-5! 🤯😩🥵 • looked forward to this in a style hard to tame and rare to be seen • actually positive surprised and better than their BWs

Can I Pet That Dawg

• have not/did not see that video, but great information on the name by D&B‼️Optimism rules in these times of the world! • as LP aka Ludvig points it’s way too carbonated of some reason, but flavors are fine as well as the bitterness • quaffable US IPA

Frederiksdal Oude Kriek Foeder Finish

• Germany 🇩🇪 vs Denmark 🇩🇰 0-0 • bottleShare by Bror • sweetly cherries with almond nose • sweetly, lightly sour and dry oaky notes of cherries

Lost In the Sauce

• backlog | 25/06/24 • meetup with Bror Jutte before the 3rd EM-game in Group C: Serbia 🇷🇸 vs Denmark 🇩🇰 • fruity, full bodied, pleasant • grassy, semi dry finish • not bad in these 23 degrees

Lost In the Sauce

• backlog | 25/06/24 • another one… partly in the sun 😎☀️🍺🍺 • a good talk in the sun!

Orkanens Øje

• backlog | 16/06/24 • 1st match Group C: Slovenia 🇸🇮 vs Denmark 🇩🇰 1-1 • BIG disappointment of the Danish team 😔😡 • collab 3 Sons 🇺🇸 • big malty and sweet Barley Wine and too less “American” iMHO • I enjoyed it, but wouldn’t recommend it

Gueuze (2023)

• 5 YEARS birthday bash • • nice palate cleanser 😉 • so beautifully balanced, but should’ve taken a large one to be enjoyed deeper • unintentionally suggested by Rune W. • paired to the beautiful and delightful birthday cake from the hands of Alice

Poltergeist

• unlike the usual hoppy beers from Fredriks hand this is very likable and a bit too soft, too creamy, too silent… • I prefer my Bad Seed DIPAs and IPAs with more edge and a scream • but the drinkability is up there 👆🏽 • replacement beer for the KCBC

Cryo Out Loud

• backlog | 01/06/24 • Champions Legue final 2024 at B9’s • canShare by YT • quite fine • would drink again

Labyrinth of Gold

• backlog | 01/06/24 • Champions League final 2024 • CanShare by lars b. 🤩 • fine specie of a westie! • as Søren B. aka StoutHead says: definitely on the right track of doing the simple yet tough task of creating a solid one

Quickstep

• Pre-dinner beer & pre the Champions League final 🟡⚫️ Dortmund - Real Madrid ⚪️

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• transit in 24* • same rating

SAS - Celebrating 10 Years of Aviation Craftsmanship

• miss that fruity notes they write about, but it’s definitely bitter and citrusy • canShare with AnnaK • can by The Mech’

Hot Fuzz

• rich • with AnnaK

Stolen Red Berries

• 2nd run - wrong pour • ➖0.5

Fou' Foune (2020)

• peach and apricots • sour, some tartness, fruity and slightly acidic • bottleShare by Eric Hophead and Aubrey from Quebec Canada 🇨🇦- thanks!

The Lost Art of Keeping A Secret

• true westie • would prefer a smaller malty backbone

Nath (2023)

Red Wedding

• CPH Beer Week• • 2nd run • bottleShare at the old “tømmerflåde” • weak nose and not impressing anyone 😉 • sip by sip blooming into its right character with BA tannins, chocolate more than coffee and a decent body • could be more evident • ➖0.3

Beer Geek Fudgesicle (2023)

• thin, pretty sweet and… tbh… annoying

KBS Hazelnut

• roasted coffee in a pas de deux with hazelnut wrapped in a quite silent bourbon barrel note • wouldn’t mind a more significant barrel impact, but a lovely coffee flavor keep it up

Just the One - Zappa

• sixty Y b-day gift from coworkers/workplace! • saved this to a special day! • and as the Skjønnemand mentioned it’s worth the wait! Extremely well balanced and punchy 🥊 juicy & tasty! • herbal with a peppery anis note in a fruity bowl 💥 • Zappa 👀

#13 DIPA

• a quick cheap fix to be enjoyed in the afternoon sunshine while heading home… I think Julie name such as a “bench•beer” 😉☀️😎 • fairly decent DIPA in a series to remember: #1, #2, #3… etc • sensing the alcohol, but nothing new to the table flavor wise

Undulation

• raspberry, rhubarb and refreshing • thin and light bodied • fast lane track Sour 🔴🔵

Just the One - Columbus

• canShare with The FILO • he’s not as happy as I am • has to adjust my impression a bit • great can label design - unique simplicity as its own • ➗0.3

Whirl Domination

• as tradition says… after the HARD work at the cemetery we sit down at Gravens Rand (Edge of the Grave) and have a ‘sæt’ • whether he’s here or not, I am! They should not forget us, right… 😉 • Gammel Dansk pairing - not the best 😏

Ice Cold Pilsner

• Easter visit at the graveyard of my parents and as tradition tells us my ‘bror’ and I have a reward of taking care of the place and setting flowers and stuff… except for him not being here🤷🏼‍♂️ • anyway, I poured him a glass anyway and said “skål” 😉

Just the One - Columbus

• b-day gift from coworkers and Christine in particular 🔥 • smashing fresh, hoppy and sweetly grapefruit 💥 • LP was right about the quality 🥸👀

Everything Now

• birthday gift from coworkers and workplace • canned: 06/06/23! • same argument as before: see comments* • regardless this feels good: citrusy, slightly trop’fruity, fine bitterness • another well crafted beer from Fredrik H. • don’t get the ratings 😧

Just the One - Mosaic

• b-day gift from workplace and coworkers 👍🏽 • needed a fresh one after… • canned: 12/02/24 • onions • fresh and nicely bitter’n’fruity 6.0 single hop IPA with a fine presentation of Mosaic and a semi dry finish • looking forward to the Zappa one

#DIPA

• birthday gift from my colleagues at the job • it’s still a VFM DIPA, but I’ve had so many quality DIPAs from USA and such since my last To Øl #DIPA that I have to lower the rating on this • 5th • ➖0.3

First Foot Forward

• earlier this evening • body ✔️ • with Sina

Hop Shop

• birthday gift from Pia & Christian • fairly full flavored trop’fruity NEIPA for a Session at 4.9% • easy, juicy and lightly gives an immediate succes outa criteria for this

Burst

• 60 Y birthday gift 🎁 from the mother of my son and his bonus•dad • not the worst American IPA I’ve had… pretty straightforward • short bubblegum nose/flavor and rather citrusy added a small fruity sweetness • smooth • mine was without grapefruit! 😢

Spontanblackberry

• 2nd run of this • paired to the Danish smørrebrød dishes: stjerneskud og mørbradbøf - provided by B9 and Handschuh / thanks guys 🤩 • tasty and fresh’fruity • tiny tart, more sour, sweet and slightly dry in excellent balance • ➕0.2 • bottle by NiCOlai

Dance Floor Aerobics

• canShare by B9 • sweetly

Spontancarrot

• 2nd run • BB: 23/06/26 • carrot juice opening • more one legged this time (2022) and limited in flavor • definitely less complexity although having a carrot fruity flavor, but also a more deeper and silent fruit lambic • same rating • thanks NiCOlai

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• fyraftens•🍺 • host giveaway (?!) from Roberto & Daniela • 2nd run, but 6 years ago! • labeled as an American IPA and iMHO TTS as that / true West Coast • quite solid bitterness although having a malty spine • smooth • would drink again • same rating

Mikkeller Oude Geuze (Old Calvados Casks Blend)

• thanks nicolai w.

You Sure 'Bout That?

• when it felt so good, you can drink it once again… right, Simon C. ? 😉 • “no Sabro no party…” almost gone in this newer batch • well hidden ABV with a DIPA- and not a TIPA feeling • still holding a pretty hoppy profile earning a run no 4

Wee Heavy

• #fyraftens #drinklocal #supportyourlocalcraftbeerbar • slightly tart and sweet mix of nutty and burnt caramel nose • subtle nutty notes in a caramelly wrap significant bitter and slightly smoky finish • decent attempt in the style although being 6.6%

NZ Slice of Sunshine

• excellentEE company here at the table: The Thin White Duke of Sorö aka Michael M. , Niklas Holmen B. aka MitSchnabel and Mads R. aka The Ganløse Gandhi 🧡❤️💙 • nice bitterness wrapped in a slightly sour trop’fruity cleanliness

Big Doink

•11th check•in • canShare by lars b. • same rating

365 Days of Darkness BA 2023

• initially a very “quiet” opening with only subtle notes • BOCKish flavor for sure, but the Calvados- and Cognac barrel impact are too vague, and it fades into a weak type of BA Bock promising too much… sadly • especially regarding price!

Smooth Operator Raspberry/vanilla

• backlog | 10/02/24 • Søren Ryge Lauget #23th • blindtasting / beer#8 / given style: Fruited Sour • my notes (same beer as beer #6, brought by Jutte): “Strawberry, rhubarb. Well hidden ABV. Rich” • within style: #1/4🥇 • all in all: #2/12✨ • by PerPis

Dank & Juicy

• this har become another classic in the D & B portfolio • it is strangely both solid bitter and quite fruity • not fresh, but you sense the quality and uniqueness nevertheless • same rating

Spontanpassionfruit

• old bottle (BB: 22/11/27), but these often ages well (dates back to 2015 or before) • I assume the oak aging plays a bigger part now • more like apricot and oak in nose • less tart flavor, more round and sour plus slightly dry in the end • 👍🏽NiCOlai

Smooth Operator Raspberry/vanilla

• backlog | 10/02/24 • Søren Ryge Lauget #23th • blindtasting / beer#6 / given style: Fruited Sour • my notes: “Pomegranate red. Strawberry, rhubarb. Sweet, sour, even bitter. Fresh, lightly, summer” • within style: #1/4✨ • all in all: #2/12 • by Jutte

Substrate

• somewhat in the wrong order, but I really was hungry after two days without beer… • Substrate is a 3.5 Session IPA with mostly citrus flavored notes • hoppy ✔️, but also with an oldskool boiled vegetables flavor although getting a bit more fruity

Lean In

• un’altra • grapefruit 😍 both in hoppy flavors and infused • repeating myself: great little awkward and square place here 😍🎶🇨🇺🎵 • #drinklocal

Lean In

• as Julie J. put it: “Fruited IPA…? But why?”, and I usually have the same problem, but foremost when added fruit substitutes and makes up for the lack of real hops • here the added fruit is grapefruit which I love, so… quite good 😉 • collab Polly’s

Kolde Fødder

• backlog | 10/02/24 • Søren Ryge Lauget 23th Gathering • blind tasting / beer #2 / given style: bajer! • my notes: “Unfiltered, golden pour. Citrus/lime, maybe yuzu nose? Fresh lime-ish Lager? 4.6%?” • within style: #2/4 • all in all: #7/12 • by Bomber

X Imperial Stout (2013)

• backlog | 10/02/24 • Søren Ryge Lauget 23th Gathering • welcome beer in the cold in front of Sankt Petri Church and the sculpture “Døden og moderen” from 1892 • 11 years old strong one… deep dark coffee & molasses, tobacco and cellar… almost dying

Backwoods Bastard (2023)

• pleasant batch • with son Roberto

X Imperial Stout (2013)

• some gem to end a horrible January (•we got a King… we lost a queen 🥲 • terrible toxic scandal at Randers) • 11 years old NOT BA, but feels like… cause this is a strong cousin.. (16.0) • molasses, tobacco, cellar, deep dark • on wishlist for years ✅

Imperial Jule Porter

• it’s exactly one month since Christmas Eve, yesterday I got my Christmas decorations away and what better way than to celebrate it with a Christmas Porter… 😉 • mostly hard roasted coffee, less vanilla, less cinnamon, but solid work and body by Fanø

It Grows On Trees

• fruity • with Kate

45 Days of Darkness

• 2nd (1st bottle in October 2021) • BB: 22/09/27 • dark roast coffee, schwarzbrot notes, burnt toffee, nuttiness, malty. • same rating • pretty good bargain for less than 3 €!

Rosé de Gambrinus (2013)

• pairing to my sushi New Year’s dinner 🍱 • 2nd run of this beauty / 1st in 2019 • even better now although the nose faded a bit • elegant and extremely well balanced • floral, vinous, slightly fruity/raspberry, sweet, sour, bitter • ➕0.25 • 37.5 cl

Jul Suffer

• last New Years Eve with Jonny Margrete as our queen in our little kingdom 👑😉 • Happy New Year everybody 🎉🥂🍾🥳 • highly underrated Christmas SIPA ending the Christmas month • hoppy, biting, full of flavor in these 4.6% • 2nd can • same rating

Fou’ Foune (2021)

• puckering tart • apricot

SpontanCherry Frederiksdal (2021)

• 2nd run of this • true Christmas 🎄🦌 style beer to be honest • feels somewhat faded, but keeping the rating • sweetly cherries, almonds, oaky dryness, low carbonation, thin viscosity, fairly good body

Prancer

• eine kleine fyraftens•🍺 • this holiday IPA from the people in the prison • Centennial, Chinook, El Dorado, Columbus, Idaho7, Ekuanot and Simcoe • semi fruity, bitter, dry and as the noble man Søren B. aka StoutHead it is 💯 % Christmas seasoning free

Gorm the Old - Rum Cask Edition (2023)

• backlog | 16/12/23 • quite fine choice and bottleShare to our dessert cheese plate and the rice pudding flavored panna cotta topped with cherry sauce and chopped almonds ✨ • roasted coffee, clear rum barrel impact, dark, good • not too sweet, nor dark

Beer Geek Konfekt

• expected an overly sweet beer out of friends check•ins, but it’s not • marzipan notes and slightly chocolate as well, but quite unbalanced imo with a funny unpleasant bitterness that lingers on • expected much more complexity

The Christmas Tree

• “I’ll raise your 3.5 with a 0.5 ☀️, Mads R. to a big 4.0 and wanna see your cards!” • excellent executed West Coast Double by the dudes at the pale part of The Meat District in Copenhagen • pine, pine and an adequate malty ships mast to balance it!

Future Horizons

• collab FIRST Craft Beer, Hungary 🇭🇺 • decent bodied 7.7% DIPA with Nelson Motueka and Idaho 7 • quite fruity with notes of white grapes, lychee, slightly grapefruit zest • smooth • 👀 the last group match between FCK ⚪️🔵 and Galatasaray • 0-0

Cuvée Oude Henri

• 2nd dance • same rating • fine acidity, dry, balanced • BB: 2040!

Undulate V13

• newest member of the Undulate family: strong one with its 13 %! • overall a dark and roasted flavored Impy with vanilla notes and more coffee than chocolate iMHO • pretty smooth texture • somewhat boozy, but U know me 😍 • could drink again

Brokilde Winter

• of the reasons LP DON’T like Tripels, I DO! A lot! Sweetie ones, but the best: proper balanced with spices and punch! • this is my 3rd within a week! 2 as a gift and now a new pair! • well executed by TOOL and a bargain for the current price! (5.3 €)

Spontanpentadrupleblueberry (2019)

• backlog | 17/11/23 • CPH Megashare • • my contribution to yesterdays share • saved from 2019 to a special occasion and it certainly was! • aged fine: quite intense blueberry flavored Sour Ale at 9.3% • rich, full body, tart, fruity, lovely to share!

Around the Bend

• sweet’n juicy pineapple nose • juicy dankness with 🍍🍋 swept in solid bitterness and a semi dry finish • canned: 26/10/23 • Strata, Galaxy, Citra, Mosaic

Double Dippy Doo

• backlog | 07/11/23 • 9th Double Dippy Doo as a pre-dinner beer • CanShare with Daniela, my daughter in law (to be) • dinner at my place 🍽️🧂 • fresh and slightly burn 🔥 • same rating

Jul Suffer

• Best danish Christmas beer in the upcoming season 2023…! 😜 • punchy 🥊 bitter opening fist in your face! • keeps the bitter uppercut while more mellow tropical fruit appears along a super citrusy coating • canned: 01/11/23 • El Dorado, Simcoe, Citra

I'm Dreaming of A Kveik Christmas

• backlog | 10/11/23 • well deserved fyraftens•🍺 (if I should have a saying) • oaty, but at same somewhat too thin bodied • greater titel than the actual IPA • quite full packed venue such a Friday and great seeing Jakob E. • enjoyed with Mollie 🎩

Obsequious

• been unofficially on my wishlist (1st Gamma BA Impy) • age: 1 year • rather clear intentions of doing a BA coffee Impy (prominent coffee and a good one) • short nose of Bourbon, but vanished now (except in the mix) • barrel impact? No • drinkable? Yes

Stuck In the Snow

• herbal (cardamom and bergamot) Christmas DIPA with a solid bitterness and a kinda OldSchool expression • not bad at all

Big Doink

• earlier today • canShare by lars b. • 10th CI‼️ • same rating

Eclipse

• meh… too much meeeeehhh • slightly sour / hard roasted licorice notes \ some of the big impy-like notes, but somewhat tuu straingge

All Day IPA

• earlier today at my sons birthday family party 🎂🍓🫐🥯☕️🍺 • 6th or 10th All Day Session CI and quite interesting reading my last CI having thoughts about Founders metoo policy with Linnea Dahl • (how did it all ended, Linnea?) • hoppy and drinkable

Viking Chili Stout

• EURO qualification: San Marino 🇸🇲 vs Denmark 🇩🇰 • gift from Børnehuset på Tuborgvej in 2018 • tobacco, chili ninjas in tamed amounts, chocolate with smokey notes • this version from 2018 and it’s like an Old Ale now • nice little gem

Lost Weekend

• bullseye🎯 title for my upcoming weekend with work on a Saturday! 😣😜 • bullseye as well on the barcode… not working! 😉 • like the new label design and info from D&B, but this is a thin bodied 7.7 DIPA quite anonymous flavored… not the level expected

Meditation Disco

• 2-0 at the Derby della Mole at Torino (Gatti, Milik) 🤍🖤 • very nice with Curva Sud back on all valves • new can design at the D&B cans - me likii 😍 • classic IPA flavored NEIPA looking IPA with a solid bitter finish • citrusy, semisweet, bitter

Shaved I(ce)PA

• meetup with The Duke back from Italy 🇮🇹 • soft and malty • hoppy bitterness and medium dry • decent one in a style a bit unknown to me

Månestøv

• Månestøv vers. 2.0 (post 2021) • 4th • 6.0 % American IPA • citrus, slightly fruity, solid dry finish • same rating

Bottle Shop Series: Highball Drifter (2021)

• backlog | 07/09/23 • bottleShare with Bror Jutte • victory is ours although we needed to put double the amount of goals in the net of the San Marino 🇸🇲 goal 🤷🏼‍♂️ • 2nd • same rating

Maxima

• backlog | 06/09/23 • post tapas & red wine dinner in this crazy late summer week in little Denmark • full body DIPA

Maxima

• backlog | 06/09/23 • fyraftens•🍺 and pre barbershop visit ✂️

Tile Cutter

• sunny Saturday and sharp as a tile cutter

Startskud

• backlog | 02/09/23 • Øllets Dag 2023 🇩🇰 • drinkable, but boring • NE style • pretty much the same challenge every time with this brewery… “the brewery is better in doing funny titles than actually brewing” • nice meetup with Rune W. • with AnnaK

Blåt Blod Til Alle

• backlog | 02/09/23 • Øllets Dag 2023 🇩🇰 • taster by AnnaK • thin and no fruity punch

Fools Gold

• Øllets Dag 2023 🇩🇰 • 2nd try, but kegged a week ago… nicely fresh • same rating

Joker & the Thief 2023

• Øllets Dag 2023 🇩🇰 • was warned, but still: way too sweet for my liking 😖 • much more Stout is wishful thinking

Bigger Doink

• backlog | 31/08/23 • at the new flat of my son and his girlfriend celebrating their move • big fruity punch, slightly marmalade-typ • malty, oaty, well hidden ABV and wouldn’t mind it less sweet • great idea building SIPA and TIPA out of the Big Doink

Bigger Doink

• fyraftens- & weekend•🍺 • 2nd / 1st on tap • same rating • sh*t, my bike is… broken… 😣… or dirty 🤯

Swedish Wash

• backlog | 26/08/23 • taster by the glass of Maria • 2nd go and I must admit I find it fine and delicious • same rating

Freak Wave

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