3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottled. A hazy golden beer with a thin white head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of spices and medium notes of lemon. The flavor is very sweet and rather spicy - among them coriander, combined with notes of lemon and other frutis, leading to a dry spicy finish where the citrus note lingers. Is it Simcoe and Amarillo hops?
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
75 cL bottle. Pours clear and yellow with a lacing white head. Light brettish aroma with a mild caramel smoothness. Prickling carbonation mouthfeel. Light dry and mild orage fruity with accent of other fruit too. Smooth and easy fruity finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle 75 cl. Courtesy of Beerlando. Pours a clear golden with an off-white head. Sweet fruity nose with some Belgian yeast. Medium, some fruit but the yeast dominates. Very dry, sulphurous and surprisingly bitter. Not all that Bretty really. A bit of a disappointment. 290311
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Draught at GABF 2008.
Hazy yellow coloured with a medium sized white head.
Fruity aroma of spices and yeast.
Fruity flavour of spices, yeast, citrus and hops.
Yeasty and hoppy finish.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle @ Papsø. Pours a clear golden color with a small off-white head. Has a fruity malty yeasty spicy aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty citrus flavor with bretty hints. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty bretty finish.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
(Draught) Pours a hazy yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of mustiness, floral, orange peel, pepper, wet leaves, and light leather. Aroma of spicy yeast, clove, banana, citrus, pepper and brett funkiness.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle at GABF 2008. Cloudy yellow - white head. Straw, honey, wheat, funky, flowery, sulfor, flat, citrus, nice hoppy, light sourness, light brett, yeasty. OK.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Preview bottle, Brouwer’s, March ’08
Milky sediment on this. Blonde, with a thick head. Yeasty, slightly floral, and slightly mushroomy. Spritzy, still milky-looking at this point, lending a nice sugary sweet malt character, reminiscent of the way the yeast does this to a nigori. Light floral, peppery notes. Finishes dry and assertively yeast. Cooool - this’ll be a fun one.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Name: Brouwer’s Imagination
Date: September 07, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Brouwer’s, Seattle
Vintage: 2008
Appearance: clear gold, creamy white head, lots of tiny bubbles, lots of sticky lace
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, lots of funky barnyard brett
Overall: sweet malt flavor, lots of balancing hops, big spicyness from both the hops and phenolics, brett is emerging to add a light musty character but can continue to evolve for years, light bitter spicy finish
Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *** /4
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
(750ml bottle) Large white head that leaves nice lacing, atop cloudy apple juice body. Aroma is medium sweet, yeast, some straw. Taste is medium sweet, eyast, some straw, peach, light melon. Smooth medium body.
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