Ninkasi Brewing Company Expo 58

Expo 58

 

Ninkasi Brewing Company in Eugene, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸

  Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular Out of Production
Score
6.34
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 20 Ticks: 21
Seasonal Release Series. Marking the return of the World’s Fair after World War II, Expo 58 in Brussels brought inspiration, innovation and pleasure to the people of Belgium. With all the flavor, finesse, smoothness, and subtle clove esters of Belgian-style ales, this beer is our way of emerging from winter’s cold occupation.
 

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5.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Slightly hazy golden coloured body with a peach and copper glow and a thinnish, pure white head that fades relatively quickly. Aroma of dry malts, biscuits, grain, a touch of rye, some milder sugars with honey, apples and a little metallic funk noticeable at the very end. Light-bodied; Sharp lager-like yeast and malt at first with a biscuity bite and a lot of grain noticeable throughout with some apples, pears and coriander seed showing strongly at first but fades to more of a sweet fruity finish with more of the lager like yeast and biscuity bite. Aftertaste shows some noticeable hops that are relatively low in alpha acids and show some metallic and spice notes along with a dry finish of herbs and a relatively strong yeast flavour towards the end. Overall, a decent more-lager-flavour-than-ale beer with some mellow hops, a good deal of malt and yeast characteristics with a perceived grainy flavour along with some mellow hop flavours throughout make this nice to sample, but definitely not worthwhile unlike you like a drier IPL (this tasted more like a lager to me than any Ale) or are in love with Ninkasi's beers. I sampled this stubby twelve ounce bottle purchased from Perfect Pour in Elk Ridge, Maryland on 24-February-2016 for US$3,39 sampled at home in Washington on 20-November-2017.
Tried from Bottle on 20 Nov 2017 at 23:57

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
Bottle from Boise Co-op. Pours out a pale golden, body fairly slick and smooth. Light grainy nose, taste adds some grain sweetness, pure unfettered golden ale. Welcome, spring!
Tried from Bottle on 05 Apr 2016 at 21:43

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Draft pour pint at the Collective for Ninkasi school of rock night. Clear golden pour with an active fizz head. Hinted grains aroma. Flavor is very light, almost watery. Has a late Belgian like addition. Cool finish. Medium fruitiness. Not enough flavor to be offensive, but lacks in something. Not bad, but forgettable.
Tried from Draft on 26 Feb 2016 at 19:48

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 7
Very funky lemon nose. Clear golden, medium head. Coriander, malt, lemongrass. Light body, moderate carbonation.
Tried on 30 Jan 2016 at 20:43

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 4
Easy drinking. Pours golden, finishes crisp. Some malt here. Unremarkable but easy enough to drink. Not much notion of a Belgian here. Bottle shared at tasting.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Jan 2016 at 10:34

3.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 2 Overall 3.5
12oz bottle pours a clear gold with some white head. Trashy nose, melon, hand soap. Flavor is trashy, malt, butter, melon. Bleh. (Rated in the style of GT2).
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2016 at 19:28

6.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottle wine warehouse. Golden pour. Small head. Tangy grasses, light pepper, bubblegum, almost a hint of mint. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2016 at 23:46

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5
Bottle. Clear pale yellow color, white head. Aroma of dusty citrus. Taste is earthy citrus, dry finish. OK.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2016 at 20:36

6.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7
From a 12 ozbottle shared at the 2016 Nuplastik is back tasting. Pours a clear pale gold with an off white head. Aroma of citrus. Flavors of lemon and mint.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Jan 2016 at 15:57

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle from Beer Run. Slightly hazy golden, thin white head, fair retention. Aroma of yeast, herbal notes, wheat. The taste is stone fruits, citrus, bready malt, yeast, herbal hops. Medium bodied, lingering spice, decent balance.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Jan 2016 at 22:40