3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20750 ml bottle courtesy of Marsiblursi. Pours very hazy golden with a frothy white head that slowly dissipates while leaving some sticky trace on the glass. Smell is sweet, fruity and tiny funky with pears in sugar syrup, biscuits, hay, dry soil, lemon zest, mandarin oranges, barnyard, honey, red apples, cloves, green grapes and plums. Taste is tiny sweet, slightly sour and fruity with plums, green grapes, honey, mandarin oranges, hay, dry soil, hay, orange peal, moist moss, pears, mandarin oranges, overripe red apples, alcohol and hints of cereal. Mouthfeel is smooth, round, very tiny tart, very tiny dry and medium bodied. Finish is sweet, fruity, spicy and tiny funky with pears, apples, cloves, orange zest, honey, hay, white pepper, allspice, dry soil, green grapes and plums. Quite nice...
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle shared by bhensonb. Pours dirty blonde with a thick off-white head and a fermented honey aroma. There is a sweet and sour honey flavor with a dry slightly sour finish. Tastes like a mead.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
750 c&c from France 44. Pours translucent light amber with a creamy off-white head. Aroma of herbs, malt and arguably honey. Med body. Flavor is wheat, malt herb and honey. Different in a DogFish way. Finishing like a light meade. (credit to Marcus on the meade thing)
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
At Stillwater Brewers Bazaar 7, Golden straw color, no head. Aroma of light fruit and honey, taste is like honey and apple, not bad
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
In short: A sweet and very yeasty big blond ale that offers good drinkability but no excitement.
How: Bottle 750ml, corked & caged. Consumed when approximately one year of age. Bottle sent to me by tyler_mn, thanks Tyler.
The look: Cloudy blond-orange body topped by a very small white head.
In long: The timid nose is yeasty, a loaf of bread found in a wet basement, light spiciness, notes of printer paper. Taste is very sweet, husky wheat grains, a lot of yeast, some old honey, straws, dead wild flowers, fruity notes of sweet apples, walking in a field chewing on a cattail, light spiciness, dusty sensation and also light barnyard notes. Alcohol is well hidden. Comfortable mouthfeel with plenty of very soft bubbles and a full yeasty pillowy body. No bitterness to speak of. For a 10% beer this was not very tasty at all. Dangerously easy to drink, not because it is very good, more because it is very low intensity and inoffensive. Something about the dominant yeast signature of this beer reminded very much me of the signature Unibroue yeast, and being a Quebecer I was raised in Unibroue yeast. Nothing bad here, but nothing exciting either. I’m not impressed by this brewery but nonetheless I always keep a bottle of Olvalde in my fridge in case someone breaks into my house and I need a bottle I don’t care about to break on his head.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle. Took a while to get the cork out. Pours a clear apple juice color. Aroma is honey with flavor of honey and malts. Solid beer, finishes warm but not boozy. Really drinkable.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
750ml bottle (Snow@ChrisO)
A rich sweet aroma, really climbs out of the glass. A wheaty and fruity body - super fruity - belgian yeastiness. Full palate, a little sweet, but very nice. Almost certainly only vaguely related to anything drunk in Europe 2000 years ago.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at the ChrisO Snow Tasting, London - thanks to Colin for something from Minnesota! Pours cloudy gold with a fine, white cream cap. Big sweet white bread nose. Big sweet flavor in general, lots of yeasty white bread, some wheat. Full bodied with fine to average carbonation. Warm finish with white sugar, light lemon zing. It’s OK in small doses, I guess.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottle at ChrisO Snow Tasting, thanks to Theydon_Bois. It pours cloudy golden yellow with a small white head. The nose is melon, pear drops, sweet poached pear, spice, honey and hay. The taste is honeydew melon, pear, hay, spice, dough, orange peel and a touch of alcohol warmth with a dry, sweet finish. Medium body and soft carbonation. Really not my thing at all. Far too sweet.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at Chriso Snow Tasting, IP trade with Bill from MN, 20/01/13.
Hazed light golden with a thin bubbly white head that retains as a film.
Nose is lemons, oranges, spice, yeast, corriander.
Taste comprises citrus notes, lemon curd, orange rind, light caramel, spices, marshmallows.
Full end of medium body with soft carbonation, smooth on the palate.
Ok stuff.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle at Chriso Snow Tasting. cloudy orange lasting white head. honey swwetish some fruit. sweetish belgisn style beer. eek a bit sweet
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