3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle from Bitter Virtue. Interesting blend of spice, herbs, malt sugar and earthiness on the nose. Not as effervescent as some belgian beers. Sweetish taste well balanced by slight tangy sourness nad light spicy bitterness. Quite interesting but not really well integrated with different flavours flying round all over the place.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity and yeasty. Flavor is quite sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish with warming alcohol. 090212
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Nice head with excellent duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are flowers, citrus, malt, grain, stroke of honey and hops.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Clear golden with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, yeast, fruit and notes of alcohol. Flavour is malt, yeast, spices, little sweet, hops, herbs, little sweet and a little honey.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle. Hazy yellow-straw coloured body with a large white head. Aroma: bread, floral-herbal with a flavour of mint, nettles, biscuit, honey and alcohol. Sweetish body with a bitter finish. Medium mouthfeel.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle picked up at Whole Foods P Street in DC a few months back. Served in a Mikasa tulip.
Pours a semi-hazed very light golden color with a nice white head that fades somewhat quickly into a thin cap throughout. The nose brings forward some wheat and a bit of light spice. Slight clove character. Flavor has a good dosing of wheat and grain plus moderate spice. Smooth and slightly chewy with moderate carbonation. Dry, fairly-bitter finish. Quite nice.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Super light yellow. Small white head. Gamey front with honey-sweet malts. Lightly spiced. Faint herbal notes. Bitter finish. A proto-Saison.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled at Pressklubben, Stockholm. Hazy deep golden, small head. Fruity honey aroma. Sweet, near full bodied with rounded, lightly spritzy mouthfeel. Salty with notes of bubblegum and viola. Vinous with mead-like honey. Tarter finish with slight salty bitterness.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 19/20
Described as a Herbed/Spiced Beer on beerAdvocate, I’m not really sure what to expect. But of all the beers on the Holiday offering list, this is one of the few with a very good review/score on Advocate. So, we bought a case, and we’ll just have to crack a bottle to see what we’ve got.
First off, the backside of the label tells this lengthy story about how the Posca Rustica came to be. I tried to read it all it one sitting, but had to come back to it in the morning. In any case, they weave a tale of a spiced version of a saison ale that was fed to the Roman soldiers while stationed in modern-day Belgium.
Posca Rustica pours out a darker amber color than the standard Saison. There’s a significant rusty shade to the amber color, with a nice white fluffy foam on top. The foam is thick and long-lasting, leaving a nice amount of lacing behind. The aromas are a beautiful melting pot of bready, yeasty-ness, but much less funky than a typical saison. The herbal components are evident, but not intense.
The herbal aromas follow through on the palate, which is really cool. In body, it’s fairly light like the saison, but it’s got a much creamier, velvety mouth-feel. It’s got this added layer of complexity that is as much about texture as it is flavor. Right about now, I’m wishing I had ordered more than just this one case.
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