Evil Twin Who’s Drinking Gilbert Grape?

Evil Twin Brewing
Brewed at Rækker Mølle Bryghus
Style: Abbey Tripel
København / Brooklyn, Denmark

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip

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28th May 2012
Craft. Hazy deep amber beer, little white head. Palate is smooth with fine carbonation. A sweet and simple beer. Sweet malts with a little grape. Some fruits before the smooth finish. Carbonated sting at the very end. Not too much going on here but it’s okay.

Draft at DBGB kitchen with Ricky, Alfonso, and Christine. Wine glass.. nose is pure grape with some musk from the triple- sharp and fragrant. Taste to me was overall a big disappointment... wasn’t balanced, not sure if this was to be bitter, or sweet, had a dry, artificial taste (like the crystal light grape packets). Went terrible with food. I love Evil Twin but this was borderline putrid.

Draught @ Fanø¸ tap takeover, Dronning Louise, Torvet 19, Esbjerg, 6700 Denmark.

Muddy light milky cream coffee colour with a small, fizzy, virtually none lacing, fully diminishing, white head. Rather disgusting appearance ;O( Aroma is (weak) light to moderate malty, light hoppy, moderate yeasty, grape. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, sweet fruity yeasty, grape and grape tart notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20120216]

Tap (Viisi Pennia, Helsinki)
An odd one. Muddy appearance, no head at all. Clear, sweet white grape juice aroma, doesn’t fit well together at all for me. Taste is even weirder, a simple sweet breadiness, but it almost feels watered down by freshly squeezed fruitjuice. A bit raw, feels underattenuated. Sweet smooth palate, carbonation low. Finish sweet and bready, and with a nice bitter hoppiness. Something just doesn’t work about this for me.

Draught at Fairbar, Århus
Hazy red-amber color, small creamy head. Aroma or smell of overripe fruits, dusty, a bit moldy and sourish; light peach and vinegar. There is a mild, delicate blend of flavors: some medium caramel and grape juice, pleasant; the bitterness is not too high, at least it doesn’t interfere with the fruits; it’s quite sweet, the backbone reminds the American attempts at Belgian Ales (and in this case, luckily there is no Belgian yeast character, to clash with the grapes; instead it’s a quite soft beer); the final tends to be more bitter and less fruity.
Despite the sub-par aroma, it’s a pleasant beer.

Draught at Fairbar, Århus. Hazy light amber with a small white head. Aroma is very sweet and fruity, pineapples, grapes, peaches, darkfruits, lightly toasted malts, yeast. Taste is much the same - sweet fruity, medium bitter with a strange minty finish. Medium body, soft carbonation.

Draft at Farmer’s Cabinet with Dallas, Vin and big Tony. Pours a light amber red body with thin lacing, no head really. Aroma is belgian esters and grape flavoring. Mouthfeel is medium and slick with notes of grape flavoring, lots of sugar, light booze.

On tap at Farmers for Evil Twin event, pours a plum color, no head. Aromas of apple, sugar, sweet dark grapes, plumsm cherry malts. Way too sweet and sugary for me.

Draft at Farmer’s Cabinet. Pours a very dark red/brown color. No head. Aroma is very strong on the grape. The flavor is very sweet, lot’s of residual sugars.

Tap@Dronning Louise, Fanø Tap Takeover. Pours muddy copper with no head. Aroma is sweet caramel, banana, bubblegum and heavy fruit. Flavour is sweet banana, caramel, yeast, bubblegum and heavy fruit. Way to sweet.