Meteor Mortimer

Formerly brewed at Meteor
Style: Smoked
Hochfelden, France

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

[At Fete de la Biere 2004, Lausanne] A light brown beer with no head. The aroma is faint - what is there is of roasted malt. The flavor is sweet with notes of honey and malt.

(Bottle 75 cl) 7,2% ABV in my version. The French have this thing about whisky beers, don’t know exactly where they got that idea. Amber coloured with a handsome, lacing head. Soft and aromatic and sweet. Less smoked than others in the same style. A bit treacherous - you don’t sense the alcohol at all. Really looks like a cheap bottle of Scotch. 071103

Bottled. Amber colour, no head. Syrupy nose with some smokiness. Extremely sweet. The sugar dominates to the point that all in the way of malt and smoke flavours are killed and covered in thick layers of syrup. I'll never be able to finish a 75cl bottle of this...

Clean amber color. Simple aroma, some bread, very light smokey. Very simple taste, very poor malt and nothing else.

Light chestnut color. Light whisky in the nose, but lacking in much else. Lagerish, with a vague hint of the whisky. Not cloying like MacGregor, but just as bland.

75cl from Carrefour, Calais. I really must stop doing this to myself. I’ve had just about everything but the ciders in Carrefour, so when I was in there last week, I found myself looking at the beers,that although I hadn’t had I thought that I should buy to try. I should have bought six bottles of Gayant la Goudale. This is chestnut colour with bubbly white head. Bit of rubbery malt aroma. Some hop. Quite nice fruitymalt in mouth. Bit hollow. Nice finish with some herby hop on end. Some candy sugar. Quite likeable. If a little dull in mouth. Spice/herb is good.

Nice amber body with small beige head. Initially, aroma is sweet and malty, and taste is caramel and fairly sweet. Once it warms, peat aroma sneaks in, and the whiskey malt flavor starts appearing, particularly with smokiness in the aftertaste.

Bottle. Amber colour with a small bubbly head. Malty, fruity and caramel, bit somkish aroma. Flavour is sweet with a cheap whiskey touch, good maltiness with some smokiness. Sweet finish. Warming feeling from the alcohol. A better quality whisky would have helped a lot on the taste of this beer.