Brutopia Nigerian Nectar

Brewed by Brutopia
Style: Specialty Grain
Montreal, Canada

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Ouch, this was just not good. I again expected this to be a darker beer and it wasn’t which is just fine but that when i tasted this it was just gross. Tasted like peaches with undertones of tobacco and dirt. Thankfully I bought the half pint and drank this down really fast - puked a little in my mouth.

UPDATED: MAR 23, 2009 Sympa, ça sent bon les pêches et les pommes. Moins, sympa, j’ai l’impression de boire mon urine stérilisée à l’eau de javel, ce qui donne envie à ma langue de s’échapper de ma bouche et à ma gorge d’imploser. Déjà, visuellement, c’est pas très beau, même si Provigo peut se targuer de concocter des petits jus de fruits cheaps ayant cette apparence. Sérieusement, c’est du tout mauvais. Faut l’essayer !

Sorghum! Funnily enough, I expected this to be a really dark beer, and the guys at the stall said "that’s what everyone has said". Perhaps that is racism (Nigeria = deepest darkest Africa), but it may also be the influence of how many people experience sorghum in beer: through the Nigerian Guinness, which is brewed with sorghum. At any rate, I’ve had other sorghum beers so I shouldn’t have been surprised. Very clear yellow, loose white head. Fundamentally different aroma--pretzels jumped into my mind for no apparent reason, and then flowers and raspberry sorbet. But, then I drank some: REALLY really astringent. Wow. Cardboard undertones, notes of tobacco. Rarely is there a beer with such widely disparate aroma-flavor experiences. But you can’t rate on aroma, and this was just not good in the mouth. (on tap, Montreal Beer Festival, 2008).