3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Tap @ Monk’s. Almost clear golden, w large off white head. Nice Belgian IPA style beer, clean & fresh tasting with some brett and Belgian essence flavors. Smooth with plenty of fresh hop flavor and bitterness that also lingered long into the finish. Moderate caramel malt sweetness balanced well with the hops. Flavor held up well with food. This is on my do again list.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap, I really enjoyed this beer. Sweet aroma that belies a wonderfully bitter and subtly complex flavor. Appearance is quite dark. A great beer for a weekend lunch!
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Creamy, malty, alcohol and spicy. Pours a cloudy banana yellow coloured beer. Sheer white head. Malty, sweet, spicy and very hoppy finish. Not bad.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow with a big white head. Looks like a weissbier. Sweet hoppy aroma. Quite hoppy flavour with a bitter hoppy finish. 24-01-08.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: MAY 13, 2011 Rerate: Tap (Brevinga Alus/Viskija, Riga) (8:4:8:4:16=4.0)
8+ Wow. Super fruity aroma, light and uplifting. A touch of grapefruit and citrus. Just heavently
3+ Pale and simple head. Doesn’t look like one of the best beers in the world, looks quite simple.
8 Super bitter taste. Perfect balance. Great breadiness, but the hops are so fruity and citrussy. Again, it’s just wow.
4 Crisp and refreshing. Super drinkable. Sessionable.
17 Fuck me, this is just fantastic. Such a clean crisp body, but packed full of taste. World class beer. Wow, wow, wow. MORE!!!
(I went back for more ... lots more...)
Rerate: Bottle: Honey floral hop aroma. Lively carbonation. Sweet smooth floral body, but a huge, and I mean huuuge, bulldozer of bitter hops takes over and gives a lovely finish. Again, not really seeing the brett in this.
Rerate of: Bottle (ZBF2008)
Hoppy and well balanced. Good combination of medium malts and crisp bitter hops in the taste - hoppy and grainy. Not getting brett, to be honest. Then again, brett doesn’t always improve everything. (6:4:7:4:14=3.5)
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Clear golden with huge head. Fresh aroma with yeasty and hoppy notes. Fruity flavor with hoppy and yeasty notes.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
33 cL bottle. Pours hazy yellow with huge white head. Aroma is hoppy, light citrus to lemon aroma. Flavour is light citrus fruity at first. Mild note of Belgian yeast. Dominant hoppy. Goes into a quite dry finish. Solid bitterness mixed with a light citrus fruity note.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
11.2 oz bottle. Pours a lovely crystal clear golden amber with fluffy, thick pure white cap. Nose is pungent with all styles of hops: minty, spicy, herbal, while a pleasant honeyish malt background pins it down. There’s also a pleasantly sourish yeast tang. On the palate, the beer is bitter from the get go, tasting very peppery and leafy before giving way to chalky, funky yeast tones. Finishing lengthy and bitter, with hardly a hint of lemony biscuit malt. An intriguingly enjoyable if somewhat palate-toasting experience.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
On tap. Poured a deeper yellow color with a small sized white head. Aromas of floral hops, grassy, and some citrus. Tastes of floral hops, grassy, and a trace of funk but not too much. Light lacing left on the glass.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 15/20
11.2 oz 2005 bottle pours a hazy light amber yellow with a fizzy two inch head that makes fizzing sounds. The aroma is funky and floral. The flavor is very refreshing and has somewhat of a dry character. The hops are there, so is a touch of yeasty funk - but not much. The palate is very cleansing and carbonated. Overall, I could drink gallons of this in hot weather.
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