La Socarrada Cervesa Artesanal Premium

Brewed by La Socarrada Cervesa Artesanal de Xativa
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Xativa, Valencia, Spain

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Tumbler

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Bottle 330ml. @ ChrisOs.

Clear light to medium amber orange colour with a small to average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, spicy, spicy honey. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, spicy, honey. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110617]
5-3-5-3-11

Bottle 330ml. @ 2D2Dspuma, Carrer de la Manigua 8, 08027 Barcelona, Spain.

Clear light to medium amber orange colour with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, toasted - caramel, spicy, moderate yeasty, coriander, honey. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, honey, coriander, spicy, soapy. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20110612]
5-3-4-3-9

UPDATED: APR 20, 2013 Bottled. An unclear dark golden beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of honey, malt, and roswmary. The flavor is sweet with notes of spices, malt, honey, rosemary, and flavors, leading to a dry finish.

Bottled. Golden colour, not much head. Aroma is honey, mild spices, some malts as well as some slight floral notes. Flavour is fruits, wood, honey, some spices and mild gingery notes. Good effort, but not my thing.

(330ml bottle) Pours a clear golden body with a small white head. Aroma of rosemary, honey, caramel, ginger, and eucalyptus. Flavor of rosemary, honey, coriander, ginger, and caramel.

bottle at home ... light hazy amber .. small white head ... soft sweet ginger nose .... light fizz ... big ginger ... soft zezty ginger ... sweet ... light bitter ... little herbal rosemary

330ml bottle (Alko Arkadia, Helsinki)
Nice herbal aroma, a little savoury and a bit leathery, but gently sweet too - nice. Smooth palate, gentle carbonation. Hayey palate, but smooth and sweet primarily. Kinda fake fruitiness in the finish. Very clear rosemary, but a little sweet. Very floral late finish. Gentle hops pop their head up occasionally too, the late finish has quite a tingly bitter finish. A curious beer that pulls in several different directions, and isn’t well integrated. Maybe it could do with a bit more ageing.

On tap. Pours with a clear golden hued body with a mostly retentive white head. Aromas are sweet, fruity, estery. Rosemary, grapefruit and ginger. Medium alcohol, mildly acidic. Flavors are spicy and sweet with strong rosemary. Off dry finish, lightly spicy, some alcohol flavor noticeable for the low-ish abv. Lively bubbles, medium-low bodied.

bottle-conditioned 330ml. lightly hazed amber body with a very thin white head and little retention. heavy ginger and star anise / licorice nose with minimal malt or hop expression and only a light doughy yeastiness. medium body, medium sweetness, low bitterness, medium to medium-high acid. very much like ginger ale in the flavor, and if it weren’t for the barely-noticeable alcohol and round, chewy body, I would guess blind that this is soda. it’s effervescent, sweet and spicy with no noticeable hop flavor but some bitterness. I’m really surprised to see no ginger in this beer at all, but I can see how the rosemary gives a similarly spice / root / bitter vegetable leaf (bay leaves?) flavor. can’t say it’s something I enjoy that much, but it’s made rather well, no noticeable flaws. a little too sweet for my liking, and unidimensional ginger (i mean rosemary) flavor throughout.

the small bottle, thanks to thirdeye11, golden with good creamy foam, nice herbal eucalyptus and lime notes, bright finish

Bottled. Strange aroma. Over ripe fruit and honey, some sourness. The flavour is quite similar - sourness and honey combined. A bit medical. Ginger?