Nøgne ø
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Brewery
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, founded in 2002 by Gunnar Wiig and Kjetil Jikiun in Grimstad
Grimstad
is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Other notable places in Grimstad include Eide, Fevik, Fjære, Landvik, Prestegårdskogen, Reddal, and Roresanden.It is...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
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Brief details
Nøgne Ø was founded late in 2002 by Gunnar Wiig and Kjetil Jikiun. The brewery name, Nøgne Ø, is old Danish for "Naked Isle". It was selected from a well-known 19th century Norwegian poem called Terje VigenTerje Vigen
Terje Vigen is a poem written by Henrik Ibsen, published in 1862. Much of the story and setting is from the area around the town of Grimstad in southern Norway where Ibsen lived for a few years in his youth...
by Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
, who worked for a time as an apprentice pharmacist in Grimstad
Grimstad
is a town and municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It belongs to the geographical region of Sørlandet. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of Grimstad. Other notable places in Grimstad include Eide, Fevik, Fjære, Landvik, Prestegårdskogen, Reddal, and Roresanden.It is...
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The beer
The brewery does a range of beers, including an amber ale, which is a 6% abvAlcohol by volume
Alcohol by volume is a standard measure of how much alcohol is contained in an alcoholic beverage .The ABV standard is used worldwide....
semi-dark ale using Chinook hops
Hops
Hops are the female flower clusters , of a hop species, Humulus lupulus. They are used primarily as a flavoring and stability agent in beer, to which they impart a bitter, tangy flavor, though hops are also used for various purposes in other beverages and herbal medicine...
, and a 4.5% abv bitter
Bitter (beer)
Bitter is an English term for pale ale. Bitters vary in colour from gold to dark amber and in strength from 3% to 7% alcohol by volume.-Brief history:...
using East Kent Golding hops.
In all, 32 varieties are made as of January 2009. In 2009, about 50% of the production was exported to Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan.
Perhaps the most sought after beer from this brewery is called Dark Horizon 1st Edition, which was a Gold winner at the World Beer Cup 2008 in San Diego, California
San Diego, California
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for the category of "Other Strong Ales." It is a Russian Imperial Stout with an abv of 16%. Nøgne Ø's Porter got a silver in the category "Robust Porter".
- #100 (Brew number 100, and jubilee-beer for the dissolution of union with Sweden in 1905)
- Amber Ale
- Bitter
- Blonde (an updated version of Kos på Groos)
- Brown Ale
- Brun
- Dobbel IPA
- Havre StoutStoutStout is a dark beer made using roasted malt or barley, hops, water and yeast. Stouts were traditionally the generic term for the strongest or stoutest porters, typically 7% or 8%, produced by a brewery....
- Imperial Stout
- Imperial Brown Ale
- India Pale AleIndia Pale AleIndia Pale Ale or IPA is a style of beer within the broader category of pale ale. It was first brewed in England in the 19th century.The first known use of the expression "India pale ale" comes from an advertisement in the Liverpool Mercury newspaper published January 30, 1835...
- Pale Ale
- PorterPorter (beer)Porter is a dark-coloured style of beer. The history and development of stout and porter are intertwined. The name was first used in the 18th century from its popularity with the street and river porters of London. It is generally brewed with dark malts...
- Saison
- Wit
- Dugges Sahti
In addition to the regular beers that are brewed all year, the brewery has several beers that are seasonal or brewed only one time:
- Dark Horizon 1st edition (launched 2007)
- Dark Horizon 2nd edition (launched 2008)
- Special Holiday Ale (2009)
- Julesnadder
- Winter Ale (God Jul)
- Julenatt (2004–2006)
- Peculiar Yule (Underlig Jul)
- God Påske
- Trippel (2003–2004)
- Weiss (2003)
- Beyond the Pale Ale (2006)
- Kos på Groos (2008)
- Le Vanilla Framboise Porter
- Sunturnbrew
- Tangerine Dream (2008)
- Tiger Tripel
- Tyttebær
- Ut På Tur (2008)
- Weiss (2003)