Five More Beers from the Aass Brewery

Aass Bock (Norway - Drammen) 6.5%

I can see why the goat on the label is SO into this beer. This is a yummy German style beer that tastes almost like it's flavoured with milk chocolate, with a mild bitter taste and it smells a little like caramel. It is dark in colour but not opaque.

Aass Fatøl (Norway - Drammen) 4.7%

Pale pale gold in a glass. Sweet, tangy and skunky with its strong taste of hops. I found this beer to be really tasty and refreshing. A great example of the creative and fine tasting beers that I've come to expect from Aass.

Aass Gourmet Stout (Norway - Drammen) 4.7%

Quite bitter coffee taste with a dark chocolate finish. Very dark in a glass.


Aass Gourmet Weizen (Norway - Drammen) 4.7%

Matly and sweet. A little bitter and tastes a little bit (and a little strangely) like bananas and coconut as well as toasted bread. Golden amber in a glass.

Aass Halv Halling Pilsnerøl (Norway - Drammen) 4.7%

A very interesting beer, fruity but also really nutty with a dark licorice finish. A reddish gold in a glass and also flavours of rich toasted bread. A really different and delicious beer, it tastes as though it should be served by elves. As I've said several times I really like most beers from the Aass Brewery but of all their beers this may just be the one you absolutely must try, I'm as head over heels for this beer as the sprawling character on the delightful label.

This is the last review of the many Aass beers I had the great good fortune to try while I was in Norway, if you ever find yourself in Norway (even try looking if you are anywhere in Scandinavia) you should definitely take it upon yourself to pick up a wide variety of this breweries offerings.

A Selection of Beers From the Aass Brewery in Drammen, Norway

Aass Bayer 3.4%

A delicious dark tasting beer with hints of coffee, chocolate and maybe even wood (oak?). Predictably dark in a glass.

18.50 NKR for a 330ml bottle.


Aass Bayer Uten 0.6%

This a dark alcohol free beer, it's chocolaty and ever so slightly bitter - like dark chocolate - but it tastes as though something is missing from its pallet. This isn't a trait of good alcohol free beers of which there are a surprising number in Norway.

7.90 NKR for a 330ml bottle.

Aass Lettol 2.1%

A delightfully fruity and light beer, a hint of bitter in the tast but a refreshing and clean aftertaste. Full carbonation.

8.90 NKR for a 330ml bottle
Aass Original Pilsner 3.4%

This is another good beer from a really good brewery. A sparks filled burst of flowery flavour (almost like a spontaneous fermentation beer) with a bitter aftertaste. Very clear yellow colour - surprising for a beer with so much unfiltered flavour.

15.50 NKR for a 330ml bottle.
Aass Sommerol (summer beer) 4.7%

Tasty but tastes like a watered down version of the delicious Aass original pilsner: a little fruity sort of like a spontaneous fermentation beer. Maybe that's what they mean by a 'Summer Beer'? Has a flowery flavour as well, but overall quite mellow.

Last and least ...

Aass Vorterol 0.0%

There is a cute brown bear on the label ... and it tastes like bear fur may have been used in the production of this gross beer. I'm going to have to try this again because I love everything else this brewery makes that I've tasted. It tastes musty and TOO sweet as if it has been sweetened with artificial sweeteners. The taste is sort of like a restaurant with poor ventalation and a lot of examples of taxidermy. It is dark and has a thick foam ... it's really gross.

(Blech!)