Araucana Rojiza Fuerte

Bottle at RBESG08 Grand tasting. Alround rating: A malty beast, alc relitivly well hidden, but lacking balance if quite drinkable, unexciting though.

Bottle (RBESG 2008): Chestnut-amber coloured, cloudy; deep sweet-grainy nose, a bit nutty too, combined with traces of hops; deep sweet-bitter flavour, medium to full bodied; sweet-grainy finish, balanced by a hoppy bitterness. Satisfying stuff............

RBESG2008: 50 cL bottle. Pours hazy and dark orange with a creamy white head. Grainy and cardboard aroma. Flavour is solid malty and toasted malt. Smooth alcohol and light bitternes into the finish.

(Bottle, Monk’s Café, Stockholm, 6 feb 2008) Amber colour with huge, frothy, beige head. Malty nose with caramel, dried fruit and blood oranges. Malty, slightly fruity taste with notes of dried fruit, citrus, caramel and a spicy finish with hints of american hops. Medium body, slightly sweet with a balanced fire burning throughout. Very nice beer.

Bottled at Monks Café, Stockholm. Pours out in a hazy reddish brown colour with a small white foam. Malty sweet aroma of hazelnuts, caramel and fudge. Full and malty sweet flavour of caramel, fudge, brown sugar, almonds and hazelnuts. Sweet but never cloyingly so finish spunned sugar, caramel, fudge and alcohol. Tasty but still quite simplistic. Lovely malt character.

Bottled at Monk’s Café, Stockholm. Cloudy dark amber, small head. Caramelly nose. Warming with husky caramelly malt flavour. Hugely malty with balanced sweetness and cottony soft mouthfeel. Full bodied. Not very complex - it’s all caramelly malt flavours, but very good.