3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Bottle. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Amber colour. Moderate malty and hoppy aroma. Light bitter strange soapy/acetic flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate. Weird.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle #3757, shared with Travlr in Trier. Interesting orange notes throughout the sip. Slightly sour and bitter. Decent.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle courtesy of Holy, thank you sir! Cloudy orange color, massive cream colored head that keeps growing and growing. Aroma of raw brown bread dough. Taste is spicedand earthy bread, orange peel. Interesting.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle, 2010 harvest. Bright red-orange amber, low lace. Acidic and earthy aroma. Starts acidic on the tongue, segueing into a citric and grassy hop note, crisp, light leafy, lactic again in the finish. Fruity, mandarin middle, earthy/salty, medium to light body, sparkly champagne mouthfeel. quick fruity finish. Interesting, not quite worth its sticker price though.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
From Tux.
Bottled, 020412.
Hazy amber with white head. Aroma of malt and yeast. Flavour with some caramel and hop notes
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle @ RBESG 2011 Grand Tasting at Dean Swift. Yeasty aroma. Some orangey fruit in mouth. Quite interesting and fruit is pretty intense. Very good beer.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle at RBESG 2011 Grand Tasting ... hazy amber ... soft sweet light yeast nose ... zezty fizzy front ... soft yeast ... orange ... hint of pine.
3.1 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Bottle @ RBESG 2011 Grand Tasting at Dean Swift, Tower Bridge SE1. Pours a hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity grainy malty weak sourish aroma. Fruity malty grainy hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty grainy finish.
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Medium, darker cream-coloured head, reasonably stable over cloudy, but bright-orange beer. Caramel, and a fine, slighlty lactic/acidic aroma, that comes as very lambic-like to me; citrus, and fine aromatic (USA-typed?) hops. Like marrying sweetened or young lambic to Cascade... Coffeemilk, too. Taste features again a - very fine - lactic acidity, though less comparable to lambic. Lemon and lactic, sour cream flavours. Retronasal distinct earthy notes, like a filtered, slightly caramelsyrup-sweetened gueuze. Warming up, it acquires more vinous (vin blanc sur lie, as Muscadet) notes. Fine, indeed Champenoise-like carbonisation, if less intense than real sparkling wine. Slick, medium bodied. Excellent, I must admit. Blind, I’d even wagered an overcarbonated Lindemans/Timmermans gueuze, better hopped. If only they’d come clean about its real point of brewing...
3.8 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
7th August 2011
Dean Swift - RBESG Tasting. A 7.1% abv bottle -Evnte 2010. Hazy gold beer, big pale cream coloured head. Very light frothy palate. Creamy malt. Light sour apple - in a good way! Light citrus. Creamy malt finish. Unusual! The apple tastes fresh and deliberate rather than a bi product of a brewing mistake. Halfway between a cider and a pale ale. Very enjoyable.
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