Estrella Damm Inedit

Brewed by Damm
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Barcelona, Spain

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

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750 ml bottle.
Pours a unclear yellow colour with a white head which collapses quickly. Aroma of wheat, lemon and coriander; just like they promised on the label. Flavour of wheat, coriander, herbs, cardboard and some weak citrusy notes. Light bodied, thin mouthfeel and a light wheaty finish. Flavour doesn’t live up to the expectations that the aroma set. Light summery witbier anyway.

Soft pale yellow pour with a slight head. Nose is bready with a saline minerality and herbal quality. Crisp and herbal with a slightly saline character and spice. Interesting.

Bottle at Craig’s, thanks! Sweet honey and grassy notes on the nose with spicy wheat and yeast notes and a lemon+corriander finish.

In bottle. Pours a blonde colour with a fair white head. Aroma of lemon, orange zest, coriander and caramel. Similar flavours with moderate carbonation and a foamy mouth-feel. Just a little liquorice to finish. Very nice. Reminds me of a saison.

bottle at home ... golden amber .... thin white head ... soft orange and corriander light hop nose ... over fizzzy ... soft front ... ligth sweet licorice front .. juicy malts ...light fruit hop .. little yeasty soft fruity hop ...

Bottle. One finger foam. Light yellow hazy. Powerfull malty aromas. Especiallly some wheat-like aromas. Dry full body mouth feel.

750ml bottle. Aroma department is really lacking...wheat, slight yeast, at bit floral. Poured light golden with an average head. Looks like a beer to me. Taste has a very slightly bitter finish. Body is really light, texture really thin, and carbonation very soft...ok look, they say that this is supposed to be a delicate beer but it’s as if I’m drinking some beer’s ghost here. It’s as if you were drinking some fine, expensive, high-end finely carbonated mineral water laced with beer. Lots of marketing hype, but this beer just doesn’t deliver, period.

Bottle poured into tulip. Poured a thick white/golden, hazy head. Light smell of orange peals and vanilla. Very light start, carbonation makes it jump a bit but dies right before the nose. Chalky on the tough. Taste of wheat and lager stays on the palate for sometime. This would be a good beer if paired correctly with the right food. By its self it just doesn’t stand up in my opinion.

Pours hazy, golden with a large head and steady fine bubbles. The nose is a combination of dry and sweet notes which comes out a bit like orange cream. The taste has peaches and cream with a herby note that gradually builds in the background. The palate has a light to medium body with a tangy and fizzy texture and a dry crisp but somehow sweet finish. Overall, I am nor sure this in between style works though it is interesting.

2nd Jan 2011 I wrote this: Brown 75cl bottle brought back from Majorca last year by my daughter and husband. The third bottle in last nights ’random tasting evening’. Posh package, complete with tagged neck label explaining the idea behind the beer, what to eat with it and how it should be served. I poured it into three different Belgian beer glasses, allowing the sediment into the last one. The first two glasses were clear, golden and lager looking, the third a murky milky yellow/white. I know it is supposed to be a delicate brew, etc, etc, but it didn’t produce much aroma from any of the glasses, the third one being the only one that actually had a real smell (yeasts and a slight floral hop hint). The taste also left me somewhat wanting, light, too light really. The glass holding the sediment being the only one to have any depth or true beery flavours. The mouthfeel was obviously completely different depending on the glass. If I’d only had the third glass the scores would have been a lot higher, but the other two held a lot more of the bottle than the last (third). I had some Coeur de Lion Pié D’angloys (a soft French Cheese) with the beer and it went very well. However the beer just lacked that something which makes it stand out from the crowd, pleasant but no world beater.