These are two of the new beers launched over the year from Nøgne Ø – Two Captains and #500. Two Captains is described as a Double IPA, and is brewed to a recipe from a homebrewing competition. A cloudy ruby beer, loads of aromatic hops, like a breeze from the forest. Sweet and dry, pines, eucalyptus. It is strong, full bodied – and very drinkable. A bit too much spearmint toothpaste in the tail to declare pure genius here, but a damn good beer!
#500 is even more intense, an Imperial India Pale Ale, no less. Low carbonation, pines and spruce. Sweet seducing malty body, a bit oily. Sweet and dry, intense, for slow contemplation while you slowly work your way towards the bottom. Nothing easy drinking here, you need to focus and concentrate. Like a beer elixir. Very hoppy, and, I assume, this will mellow into something quite different over time. I can’t wait for #1000!
I wasn’t too crazy about Two Captains, really, but I’m thinking of buying a bottle of #500, I loved #100, would love to see what this one brings.
#100 has grown and is one of my NØ favourites, too.
And this means you can wander out into the streets of Prague and buy a bottle now?
Yup, they are available at the Zly Casy shop and here: http://www.odddog.cz With Haandbryggeriet maybe coming soon…
…If there was one brewery’s beers that I wish I could get more of over here, it would be Nogne-O.
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