Veltins V+ Curuba

Brewed by Brauerei C.& A. Veltins
Style: Fruit Beer
Meschede-Grevenstein, Germany

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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50cl can, on special offer. Clear golden pour with a white head. Aroma fruity. Sweet taste with tropical fruits.

Can: Small to medium pretty vast and slow disappearing white head on top of a clear yellow colored beer. Smell is strange nlan not that good: exotic fruit (mango, peach, etc.) but more like older and heated up exotic fruit, poopy diapers, not much more in the smell. Taste is light sparkling malty dusty mix of exotic fruit (mango, peach, grapes), light bitter and light sweet, some warmth, some old nasty hops, some sweets and candy sugars, liggt spicy herbs, all by all not to well balanced and it even gives me a bit of the shivers... Aftertaste is some light mango sweetness, some bitter tints, sweet glue and some malts. Low carbo, soft light creamy mouthfeel, medium body an a creamy texture, this is all good, only the beer is not balanced and has a nasty bitter tone and irritating older (almost nasty) fruit tone.

A light yellow beer with a thin white head. The flavor has notes of artificial sweetener.

Can. Sickly yellow-green colour. Oh boy, this smells like Haribo Tutti Frutti. Passion fruit, melon and citrus, rather artificial. Some cardboard that reminds you this is supposed to be a beer. Artificial flavour, sweet but with a citric-acidic bite that actually makes this worse. You know, that synthetic citric acid feeling, partly astringent. Some beery flavours underneath but not exciting at all. Bad.

The Germans love for flavored beer is an interesting one, sadly the sweet tastes never blend together as well as their Belgian masters but they’re most often refreshing and a nice switch. So is this Veltins, enjoyable fruitbeer, not too heavy and overall nice.

33cl bottle shared with Dutchdrebus and Ansjelaah. Clear pale yellow color, slight lacing on top. Smell sweetness, candy and lightly sweet fruits. Taste sweetness, some fruit, pretty fresh on a hot day I guess. Not really beer imo but if you forget it’s a beer the taste itself is not bad. Low body, low carbo.

Deze heeft benzai speciaal meegenomen voor deze avond bij dutchdrebus. Heel zoet en fruitig, multivitamine en caprisun. Licht geel en helder van kleur, geen schuimkraag. Thnx benzai!

Bottle thx to benzai. Urine like colour, with less head than urine. Smells like ’dubbelfris’ (a Dutch fruit soda). It’s a little party for my nose. Grapes, peaches.. It’s a tropical fruit mayhem! Tastes like ’safari’ (a liquor youngsters drink), fruity, not like beer, but still nice. Okay carbo, fruity, exotic body.

UPDATED: NOV 7, 2012 roasty, grass, cereal, cough drop, cooked vegetables, bubblegum, raisin, golden, orange, cloudy, minimal head, heavy cloying sweetness, lightly bitter, medium sourness, light body, creamy, average carbonation, bitter,

Sorry for the german rating, but this is a lousy rating from my "newbie" time (2007-2009), and it’s not worth of being translated. I just added it for the statistics, and to complete my backlog!
Wenns im Glas nicht so nen Neonstich hätte könnte mans für ein Pils halten... Geruchlich wirds von Fruchtaromen dominiert. Von Pils keine Spur. Der Antrunk ist sehr angenehn. Man schmeckt alles raus. Hopfenaromen, das Fruchtige kommt zur Geltung, und den Tequilla merkt man sehr viel im Nachgeschmack.