Collective São Gabriel Berne Amber

Brewed by Collective São Gabriel
Style: Vienna
CapeTown, Western Cape, South Africa

Serve in Lager glass

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Bottle 500ml.

Clear medium amber colour with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, toasted - caramel, caramel malt. Flavour is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120122]

off-white head quite frothy...dark amber colour..slightly fruity aroma...watery texture,small lacing...sweet aftertaste

Crystal clear amber colored pour underneath a sizable white head that is slow to recede and leaves plenty of lacing behind. Smells of creamed corn and malt. Tastes the same, but with an out of place bitterness. A twang. Dry and not very malty. Simple, yet not elegant. Not the best example of a Vienna.

Bottle. Cloudy brown with a cream foam. Aromas are toffee, caramel and rains with pear and hints of banana. Yeasty with chocolate. Lightly spiced with herbal notes. Flavours are sweet weetabix and toffee with autumn fruit and light citrus. Yeasty on the finish. Decent.

Bottle (?, London)
Slightly farty eggy aroma. Deep hazy amber. Bread in the aromas too, and grainy. Taste is also grainy - sweet barley. A touch husky. Finish is a touch husky too, but with a pleasant biting bitternesss laster. Fresh hops in that, in fact, and certainly an approvement on the inauspicious start.

Bottle. A light amber colour with a high light tanned head. Not that long lasting. Fruity, spicy and a little sweet aroma and taste. A medium body.

Last beer of the visit to &Union .. . Pours a dark murky tan brown, murphy brown?? .. . wow, an easy drinker here .. . the session beer of africa i say .. . yebo!

.5 liter bottle shared by EDA at PPRBSG 2010. Pours a light amber with a thinning head. Aroma is toasted malts, old caramel, oxidation, mineral, light metallic, and some grassy hops. Flavor is toast, biscuit, some crystal malts, pils, light cola taste, earth and stale oxidation. Meh.

@PilsnerPeters-16.9oz bottle-pours a white head and hazy amber color. Aroma is light fruit, medium malt-caramel. Taste is light fruit, medium malt-caramel, secondary earthy hops bite. Macro-ish.

Bottle from Peter’s RBSG. Yellow brown pour with standard white head. Aroma is light of rice wine and caramel malt. Flavor wise the caramel malt is primary. Background notes of rice and a slight white vinegar kick. Crisp finish with little flavor staying around for long. Distinctly average.