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Freak Wave

• feels like a spitting fresh Freak Wave and I get a much nicer vibe of that wave today: much more body in the 6.5 Volt, better trop’fruity bill and more hop bite and edge! • 4th (1st CI late July 2019) • ➕0.5

Chrome Chrysalis

• new West Coast one from D & B • WC-aficionados will roll their eyes of the hazy pouring 🙄 • melon nose opening followed by a small chock: quite a bitter flavor • hoppy bitterness with a trop’fruity malty backbone rounded by a semi dry fruity finish

6th Anniversary

• not bad, but wouldn’t mind a more aggressive hop bill and -flavor • personally I don’t think any Danish brewery do better West Coasts than Amager

Chopped Up

• 3rd and 1st on can • same rating 🐒🔪🩸 • DIPAMonday

Hi-Heel Sneakers

• earlier today • proper name for a flamingo shoe 👠 • a bit blurry, but definitely drinkable • no visibility due to can drinking and got the impression of a crossover kinda IPA, but couldn’t really catch the vibe • I need a deeper dip in it • no rating

Black Wedding (2023)

• LCI | 11/02/23 • Søren Ryge Laugets Gathering #22 • blind tasting / beer #12 • my notes: “(…)” 😵‍💫😵🤪 • all in all: #11/12 - 16 points out of 20: 2nd best • brought by UT

Nasty, Brutish And Malt

• LCI | 11/02/23 • Søren Ryge Laugets Gathering #22 • blind tasting / beer #11 • my notes: “(…)” 😵‍💫 • my 2nd encounter with this bastard after a glass in 2018 at Barvik, and as then I wasn’t pleased • all in all: #X/12 • brought by Per Pis

Winbic

• backlog | 21/07/23 • Cellar•Clearing•at•Jeppe P•version I• • same rating

Chipotle Porter Aged In Eagle Rare Bourbon Whiskey Barrels

• Cellar•Clearing•at•Jeppe P•version I• • not really any barrel notes left, but still a slightly chili note left • 2012 version

Chopped Up

• backlog | 17/07/23 • treat by Morten N. - thanks 👍🏽 • joined by Grant • 2nd • same rating

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2016) 11.9%

• 5th • company with Miranda and Line • served really over carbonated, but a toss between glass did the trick • still a good coffee note in more distant bourbon BA wrap • small tobacco and cocoa notes

Chopped Up

• Chopped Up has a thick rya carpet of bitterness as a social safety net under its more wild and citrus’fruity youthful top • wrapped in a creamy softness around a fairly rich body • adequate style after BA mead and BA Barley Wine • love the name BTW

Maple Syrup PBJ Time

• bottleShare with The Mechanic and bottle by ∆ BETMENkeh ∆. 👍🏽 • fun to try, but a bit much in the blender • peanut butter ☑️ maple ☑️ a lot of honey ☑️ • strong

KBS Cinnamon Vanilla Cocoa

• backlog | 16/07/23 • bottleShare with the some of the excellent crew at Peders ✨ • cinnamon, vanilla with cocoa and coffee playing 2nd fiddles here • not better than any original of KBS and a bit overly sweet

Red Wedding (2020)

• backlog | 07/07/23 • ➕1 ‘cause I can

Red Wedding (2020)

• earlier this night • best offer on tap and it’s my 3rd “killing attempt” in this in 8 days… do I need another color of a wedding beer…? Hell yeah 🔥🔥 ⚪️ / ⚫️ • same rating 🐒

Red Wedding (2020)

• probably my night cap…! (X 2) • clearly indicates a Red W with some age on it • barrel notes present and could’ve suggested bourbon, but it’s not • all in all a strongly BA dusty, lightly moldy, son of a island bitjt ImpyS with a decent base beer

Hot Fang

• collab Dois Corvos, Lisbon 🇵🇹 • Idaho 7, Strata and El Dorado • fresh and fruity • fine grapefruity finish

Citra Crush

• earlier today • 5th CI • (tooth) doctors order‼️ • crisp, hoppy, light in a proper manner, fresh and quite dry • thanks Emille

Big Doink

• fyraftens BIG D on tap at Balders Plads and the BIG S is out again ☀️😎🍺 • ➕Copenhagen Jazzfestival just kicked off 🎵 • “I’m a lover, not a fighter…”🎶

Double Dippy Doo

• 8th and freshly kegged Di’Doo • initially another quite creamy and softly palatable one, and I kinda miss the bite of the original… • but as u know: give a DIPA time to develop and it pays off 😉 • more bite, freshness nd richness at Devils Point©️

Månestøv

• earlier this evening • the waiter took her time to get knowledge of the brewery, but I was treated a taster: initially a very sweet IPA • a pint hinted a hoppy, but also sweetly and soft carbonated • didn’t get info on date, but wouldn’t say fresh

Bæst

• sweetly, but tasteful and quaffable • Saturday summer afternoon with AnnaK

Upsy Daisy

• night cap • coffee, coffee, coffee and som milk sugar/lactose giving it a Milk Stout character • well hidden ABV and a bit too one legged an Impy to give it more

4 Giants IPA

• earlier today • 4th CI • after a f*cking high humidity day • steady rollin’ big malty bastard of a WC DIPA

Green Gold (2023)

• post•GRAVEYARD•visit • drinking this gives associations towards Iris F and our first thoughts ’bout the original GG • this is a bit more complete in flavor and GG will probably be a fine bitter/beska choice in many years to come • excellent ice glass

Death Vision Pt.2

• Sudden Death, Hamburg collab’ • one week older Vision of Death 💀 • quite dry, hoppy and much more in zen after a week of aging OR being a can version

Just the One - Amarillo

• wTF 😳 it’s actually raining in CPH after 3 weeks with no rain at all in our little kingdom • this is the story of how one beer does quite an impact on another one 😜 • this didn’t make a huge impression at 1st, but after the TIPA it feels comforting

VitamiN Z

• backlog | 10/06/23 • celebration and watching the UEFA Champions League Final in our small Kælder society • of different reasons we’re two participants, but chose to celebrate club football by wearing our favorite team shirts • nicely executed NZ WCiPA

You Sure 'Bout That?

• finally weekend and fyraften (it’s been the longest week in weeks!) 😰 • need some strong liquid to get me in zen and this has almost too strong an opening, but now - and in combo with its freshness - it’s ruling the square of Balder‼️ • does incl Sabro

Point Nemo

• backlog | 10/06/23 • Champions League Final • sorry to say: really boring and softly or pillowy

You Sure 'Bout That?

• canShare with The Duke of Sorö and actually sharing a pizza 🍕

Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) (2016) 11.9%

• 7 Y old and my 4th hit at this batch • surprisingly still got a very lively, fizzy and annoying carbonation, which never will take it to KBS heaven • mostly coffee dominant, but a very splendid one • bourbon has taken a minor role in this 2016 movie 🎥

You Sure 'Bout That?

• collab Willibald 🇨🇦 • punchy 🥊 10.0” TIPA with a big fruity front deliciously wrapped in a creamy and bitter fruity finish • canned: 30/05/23 💥 • fine finely executed • Michael M. 🏹 #theTIPAhuntcontinuing

Big Doink

• fyraftens~🍺 • 3 weeks old B’Doink in 24 degrees in central Nørrebro ☀️😎 • seen better: a bit too soft and bit mellow in its hop bite, but generally a fine danish DIPA

Death Vision Pt.2

• fyraftens-, Friday- & Weekend Vision Pt.1 • super fresh 💥 • a bit rough and harsh, but

Lust For Life

• earlier this evening • 4th CI • meetup with AnnaK

VitamiN Z

• earlier this evening • 2nd one (match beer: Udinese vs Juventus ⚪️⚫️ vs 🤍🖤) • excellent collab’ w/ Bad Seed (Aalborg) • surprisingly well executed New Zealand IPA doing a quite bitter one with NZ hops, man 👀 • I would buy VitamiN Z on can! • 0-1 ✍🏼

VitamiN Z

• earlier today • meetup with the 2 others Senators in JUVE Club ØØ 🌟🌟🌟 to share this seasons last JUVE game away to the proudness of Friuli region: Udinese (all the youngsters couldn’t make it) • this is art in smaller amounts: excellent WC flavor!

4 Giants IPA

• still world class OldSchool • pre match beer Udinese vs La JUVE - last Serie A 🇮🇹 match in a horrible season 😫

Deep Fried

• “vi skal lige drikke af…”

Dixi

• backlog | 29/05/23 • fresh, grassy and a bit too green to be good (give it a couple of weeks) • tapShare with my Hungarian beerbuddy ∆ BETMENkeh ∆.

Strandklar

• much more West Coast than I would label this as New England due to the malty profile and the quite big bitterness

Bourbon Barrel Aged Adambier

• congratulations to Bad Seed with #100‼️ • “tapShare with the Thin White Duke • bourbon nose of 16 months with pleasant tobacco-, sweetly malty- and slightly vanilla notes, but wouldn’t mind 4 months more on that barrel

Just the One - Amarillo

• fyraftens🍺🌤️😎 • semi sweet trop’fruity with a semi bitter finish • creamy • orange popsicle

4 Giants IPA

• 2nd go and 1st on can (4 years ago at The Shamrock Inn) • 4 Giants are: • BIG malty • PINEY • RESINOUS • BOOZY • LOVELY • a wunderschön walk down memory lane with beers like Nøgne Ø #500 and their Two Captains Double IPA. No f*cking haze here!

All Day Chill Day

• 2 weeks of craziness is over 🍻🤪😍and it’s ⤵️ • ALL DAY Everyday CHILL DAY Session IPA T*I*M*E • thanks for visiting us in CPH, all the bottle-, can- and tapShareS plus your great company - see you next year‼️

The Hazy Bunch

• Sunday before MBCC week • • mehhh

Big Bang Barley Wine - Vintage 2022

• mediocre • strong, malty and a bit “without direction” or real purpose • too pleasurable or “just doing”

Southern Light

• earlier this evening • just the right amount of hop’fresh’burn

Up Up High

• earlier this evening • nicely executed DIPA without too much sweetness although being fruity • excellent company and gathering by Niklas Holmen B.

Occulation Oak Barrel Aged W. Rom

• ÅBEN summer•opening • nice party - nice barrel - very nice company of Bimse, Niklas, Katrine, the cousin Dylan and Alister 🖤🩶

Ude Af øje Ude Af Sind

• meetup with son Roberto • easy drinker West Coast, but definitely one of the better ØLSNEDKEREN beers I’ve had

Barrel Runner

• pre•match•beer La JUVE vs Napoli • “… in the tropics…”? Not really, but this is certainly some of its own: 11.1% BA IIPA with Mosaic as the leading role • bottled 5 Y ago • strong rum BA opening • actually works, but wonder: how would it work “fresh”…

Bottle Shop Series Highball Drifter

• this beer is what I love by Founders a.s.: those big, bold and ambitious Imperial beers, who gives a f*ck 👊🏽 • vanilla, caramel, bourbon, candied orange, bitter finish • nose of vanilla and oak • big malty bastard and me likii 😍 • best Imp. Brown*

Sworn

• backlog | 18/04/23 • canShare by UT • canned: 02/03/23 • “typical Gamma DIPA…” I read, but I’m more like: typical Gamma when they’re without edge and it gets too likable • sweetly fruitful, marmalade-typ and lacking on hoppy bitterness • creamy yes ☑️

Freak Wave

• 3rd • still not a big fan: too weak a body, thin texture and no hop bite • canShare by B9

Madam Blå

• Simcoe • light & clean, grassy & easy drinkable West Coast • semi dry finish • somehow a typical Ølsnedkeren beer lacking some depth

Umbrella Proof

• collab Lupinus Artisan Ales • canShare from lars b. • apricot and subtle mint notes • wouldn’t mind stronger mojito flavors • 1-0 at Etihad

Natural Obligations

• 2-0 at Etihad • CanShare by lars b. • piney, light grapefruity, tasty and very well balanced

Oust

• probably the same batch as my last can 6th of January this year and it certainly not made it more interesting right now • Lazio - Juventus at Olimpico 2-1 😔 • same rating

Shadowplay

• canShare by Peter, ØlEntusiasterne • strong Coffee Impy Stout • roasted coffee notes, tart berry feeling, but quite pleasant creamy roasted and smooth feeling (not the usual hard dark roasted flavor) • a bit one legged though, but as a solo it works

Hop Gnosis

• earlier today • fyraftens•&•Easter vacation•🍺 • collab Prizm 🇫🇷 • grapefruit-typ

Echo Chamber

• LCI | 04/04/23 • collab The Garden 🇭🇷 • good one • same rating

Adambier

• nearest knejpe to my new work and it’s been years since my last visit here • probably my 1st Adambier 🇩🇪 • Bock-ish aroma as U.O pinpoints • strong malty 10.5 with some - licorice - caramel - tiny smoke (could wish for more in 1 and 3) • 😌🙏🏼Hector

Bridging the Gap

• collab Malmö Br. Co • subtle roasted nose along some sweet menthol • roasted licorice hoppiness in a dry pretty fresh package • so balanced that nothing gets overpowering, but at the same just delivers kinda average • Easter vacation round the corner 😍

Royal Oak

• 2nd can • canShare with the great Mads R. • great beer, but somehow lost the most magic notes in aging: less bourbon and tartness • ➖0.5

Dank & Juicy

• Citra, Equinox and Mosaic • 6 years since my last try at this at Ørsted • licorice powder, resinous, slightly malty, but mostly hop bitter • the easy drinkable kind of West C IPA

Red Wedding (2023)

• LCI | 11/02/23 • Søren Ryge Laugets Gathering #22 • blind tasting / beer #6 • my notes: “Dark/black. Excellent and simple somehow. But top notch! Bourbon BA? 13.0%? USA?” • newest version at 13.5% • my ‘best of show’! 💥 • all in all: #X/12 • by Bomber

Viper (2023-)

• earlier today • fyraftens•🍺 • very adequate - to my desire - and nicely WC IPA to kickoff this weekend after a week starting my new job • (haven’t tried the earlier Vipers)

Black Wedding (2023)

• Clarre_O nails it in few words❗️🎯 • very pleasant BA Impy with chocolate/cocoa in a slightly coffee smooth wrap and a small boozy backsplash of Stauning whisky • somehow the on-and-on drinkable BA Stout

Canute the Great

• new job, still alive, double JUVE victory… what a week! • excellent earthy/ashy note’s which seems to be the Fanø stamp in ImpyS • slightly more fruity (dark stoned) notes in a so-to-speak coffee wrap • the rather cold serving temp suits the FanøS

Gorm the Old

• earlier this evening • 10 minutes before the final whistle of the game 🖤 • what a positive difference it is tasting the deep dark ones on tap from Fanø • no BA, but quality all over: chocolate, dark tobacco, vanilla • elegant soft smooth palate • rich

Wharariki Beach

• 2nd • never too sweet • same rating

Occulation Oak Barrel Aged W. Tequila

• not bad pairing at all although I wouldn’t mind the tequila impression to be stronger • cocoa, leather, tobacco, dark coffee in ‘mine’ base 10.5 Impy • elegant palate; close to 0 carbo • not particularly better than whisky version • last day of the 58th

Wharariki Beach

• suggested by the friendly beertender at the tank bar after search for a DNEIPA on the taplist • proper intro to the style as well • collab Gamma (Herlev) • full bodied 10” TIPA • stone fruity impressions with a decent dry & bitter finish • nice venue

Optical

• some DIPA body, but a bit anonymous • delivers a DIPA in a glass with a stamp of ÅBEN, but again: hit me more in the face with your hops and a attitude 🥊

Cloudscape

• 1st visit to the kinda new tank bar & restaurant at Kødbyen CPH including a highly happy revisit of former coworker Niklas Holmen B. 🧡 • meetup with Annakarin • decent West Coast, but too defensive and too polite • usual deeds, but needs more power💥

Kope-Niu

• collab Y Not Brewing • lots of arabia roasted coffee with a silent sweetly coconut swirl • very fine coffee nose • silently coconut appears to the party • decent

Gorm the Old - Rum Cask Edition (2022)

• backlog | 23/02/23 • emptying the keg and getting the usual free beer 🙂 • 3rd glass • celebrating the Juventus win at Nantes this evening 0-3 🤍🖤

Gorm the Old - Rum Cask Edition (2022)

• backlog | 23/02/23 • less chocolate than basic bottle vers. and definitely more depth and darkness • not any significant rum barrel scent or huge flavor, but all in all a very balanced and tasty one • Europe League: Nantes vs la JUVE 0-2 (2 X Di Maria)

Tropical Rumble

• frosty 🥶 & sunny 😎 Saturday tropical fruity slightly sour Session IPA

Iron Stone

• fyraftens•🍺 • canned: 10/11/22 • had you presented this as an US IPA I’d said 👍🏽 • late celebration of the triple world champions from Denmark 🇩🇰 in handball and yesterdays win against France 🇫🇷 34-29 🤾🏼 1st triple ever in male handball‼️ • ⬇️

Mirror Me

• Impy Porter aka a Cascadian Double IPA in disguise like T S points out • TTS roasted nose of licorice • gotta love the effort and thrustworthyness of doing it, but it somehow gets “the horse with no name”…

Xothir

• a patiently wait (30 minutes) gives you some cinnamon in a mix along slightly orange notes… vanilla? • flavor is rather roasted licorice hand in hand with subtle and shy orange fruited notes • a bit odd, but points for trying and definitely drinkable

Oust

• stone fruity 7.5 DIPA along some lemongrass and ripe orange • R.I.P. Gianluca Vialli 🤍🖤🇮🇹

Ampersand: Mosaic

• earlier this evening • let it be said: Mosaic is no revelation in my hop book • canned: 07/12/22 • canShare with Annakarin • a bit meh and boring although drinkable as mostly NE are

Grollach

• earlier this evening • canShare with AnnaK • no salty note nor sea water • mostly a fruity berry flavored 7.0% slightly Sour Ale • ABV well hidden and could have a more tart/sour bite

Wilderflower Batch 1000

• have to agree with Julie J. 🎯 • lovely new one from the already talented guys at EBeLtofT • slightly trop’fruity, citrusy and rather full bodied as a DIPA, but with that easy access and high drinkability from an IPA • would love to drink again ☀️😎

Just the One Simcoe

• New Years Celebration 🎉 at the bar that really came under my skin in 2022 • grapefruity 🍺 7.5% Simcoe IPA with a sweetly orange 🍊 swirl on top • just missed the Thin White Duke and the other Dukes and Counts 🙈

Tung Tåge

• titel says more than just the words these days • but as a Wise Man once said: Go visit, Brian S. and life will look a bit more bright 🌞

Winter Haze

• morgenbajer • excellent solid bitterness

Jule-IPA

• earlier this Christmas evening with Annakarin • cold served and colder enjoyed 🥶 outside • but a wild guess would be somewhat of an West Coast without being Christmas-ish at all • 4th try/1st attempt on bottle (with a Christmas theme) • same rating

Ekpyrotic Universe

• rich and fat bodied • mostly bitter’fruity and slightly dank • although being 8.0 a bit thin in finish

Fools Gold

• backlog | 11/12/22 • fresh 💥 • grapefruit • trop’fruity • with EKOT • Golden Promise, Pilsner, Oats, Nelson, Motueka, Verdant

Mikkeller XMAS Vienna Lager Classic

• purchased at Kgs Nytorv Julemarked • slightly sweetly honey flavor, but in fine balanced with a hoppy bitterness • lingering dark breadish flavor • in the style a fine specie

Royal Oak

• holy mother of smoke… an eye opener of an Old Ale! • immediately reminiscents of The Bruery notes • bourbon, oak, tobacco, dark • the important booz’iness is there; strong ness in the finish • best Scandinavian Old Ale!

Good Night, Mekong

• TUNG ⚫️ Tirsdag • hard roasted malts all over • bitter, but with small eatable sweetness • pleasant smooth palate • definitely quality in the making

Joker & the Thief 2022

• at last • (proper) fyraftens•🍺 • Impy/BW-idea? • roasted notes and imagining some dried fruit notes • flavor wise it’s more like a smooth Imperial Milky Stout with a boozy rug underneath • roasted malts, nutty, dark, marzipan • riding on two 🐎🐎

Vixen

• this years Christmas (2022) IPA from the good people at Combustione Lenta 😉🇮🇹 • Simcoe, Belma, Ekuanot, Strata & Columbus • pretty solid West Coast with a smaller malty backbone added a proper dry finish • citrusy and slightly piney