2.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20 skortila (4160) - Baarn, NETHERLANDS - NOV 12, 2005
Aroma of berries, mainly raspberries and some malts. Clear, red coloured with a big, pink head. Taste is bit malty, some hops noticeable but most of this beer is overwhelmed with fruity sirups. Mostly raspberry as in the aroma. Medium body. (most body is sirup though)
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20 bierkoning (8099) - La Tropica, NETHERLANDS - NOV 8, 2005
Pinkish red color. Berry fruit aroma. Sweet and rather sticky berry fruit flavor with just a bit of bitterness. Juice is used ins pite of real fruit, but the flavor is not too artificial. Below medium bodied, sugary. Some fruity sourness. Not too bad.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20 caesar (3747) - Bunnik/Utrecht, NETHERLANDS - OCT 25, 2005
Clear copper color, short head. Aroma is a bit sour, caramel malty, fruity (strawberry and raspberry), bit metallic. Sweet fruity taste, bit watery, slightly malty, sweet sourness. Lacks body and complexity.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 tiggmtl (4475) - Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA - OCT 18, 2005
Icing sugar like sweetness over cereal malt graininess with a berrylike fruity character to the nose. Opaque amber-brown with low but lasting, large bubbled, off white head that recedes to cover with some lace. Sweet, vinous and fruity in flavour with some doughy yeast apparent. Medium body with soft but lively carbonation. Bottle sampled at Plan B in Copenhagen.
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20 rickgordon (3764) - Göteborg, SWEDEN - SEP 25, 2005
Bottled. RBESG -05.
Red-brownish. Huge aroma of wild strawberries. Flavour is not overly sweetish. But the candy-like wild strawberries put a spell on me. Marvellous!
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20 jbrus (4990) - Delft, NETHERLANDS - SEP 16, 2005
UPDATED: SEP 17, 2005 Bottled. Cassis aroma. Light hazy, dark red color, beige head, good lace. Sweet and sour, very fruity, all kinds of forrest berries but mainly cassis, smooth. Really gives you a feeling of real fruit juices mixed with beer.
2.3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20 diabel (1537) - Aarschot, BELGIUM - SEP 4, 2005
Bottled at Belgian Beer Weekend 2005, Brussels, Belgium Lightly pink head. Hazy, red body. Nose of raspberries. Heavily sweet flavour. Too sweet for my tastebuds, but not dominating sweet.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20 kook (2033) - Perth, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA - AUG 27, 2005
Cloudy orangey red with a beige head. Big berry nose. Sweet berries, slightly tart in the finish. Nice.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20 DanielBrown (2717) - Birmingham (via Leicester), West Midlands, ENGLAND - AUG 23, 2005
Bottle at Plan B during RBESG 05 pub crawl. Smells great - strawberry, forest fruits etc. Rich and jammy. Superb jam roly poly pudding flavour. Rich, jammy, very thick and fruity. Great stuff!
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20 hammenlind (737) - Sundbyberg, SWEDEN - AUG 17, 2005
Muddy brown, thick sparkling head. Fruity, wild strawberry nose. Thick, fruity mouthfeel. Flavour from raspberry and wild strawberries. Somewhat acidic in finish.
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