Nordic by Nature, 6.5% ABV
This stuff did something no other drink has ever done before, it made me taste sweet, and bitter at the same time. I was at a loss for words, so I handed it to my wife for a second opinion. Her words were “Oh my God, what the fuck is happening to my mouth?!” Nordic by Nature claims to be a bright orange colored IPA, with juniper berry juice and sea buckthorn juice, made in Belgium. That’s like claiming to have a two-ton heavy-duty pickup truck, with 12″ rims and fluffy pink upholstery made by Swiss clockmakers… it’s simply something that should not exist. In fact, it may not exist! If you head to the website of To Øl, the brewer, you’ll see NO MENTION of it at ALL! Thus, either this was some horrible brewery experiment gone so horribly wrong, they shipped all the bottles off to us dumb Americans (because we’ll drink anything) and then quickly disavowed ever having anything to do with it with a late night bonfire; or, its strangeness caused a hyper-rift in the fabric of localized space-time where if tumbled through from some alternate universe where such things are commonplace, only to land coincidentally on my local craft beer shop’s shelves. Either situation is equally plausible. Like most of these brews, it got better and better the emptier and emptier the one-pint bottle became. Serve with a good Italian dry-salami and cotton candy while watching reruns of Sliders.
