tap @ óbester borozó (budapest)

Plastic bottle(1000ml). -From small shop in village named Torokbalint near Budapest. For past two years I’ve been passing by it and always something happens and I don’t get in it. This time I’ve decided to enter and had something to see... over 25 beers in 4 large fridges (only 2 new for me). Who would expect it, especially because shop looks as if it could collapse any second.
Golden coloured, medium sized white head, dusty yeasty nose. The taste is odd, slight hoppy and vegetables with strange notes of beet. Harsh bitter finish and aftertaste.

1l plastic bottle courtesy of and shared with ogivlado (thanks!) Yet another faux German Hungarian beer. Unlike the others, usually supermarket crap brewed by Pecsi or Borsodi, this one is brewed by a micro from a village just outside the eastern limits of Budapest. Cute. It also carries a monk on its label, probably to indicate that it might not be as crap as the plastic bottle would indicate. Not pasteurized, which is a plus. The strength is apparently from 3.5% to 4.5%, which is amusing. It poured a darker orange-golden colour with a medium sized thick white head that went away slowly. Nice enough. The nose isn’t all that bad. Typical micro yeastiness found in this part of Europe mixing with some dusty hopiness. All in all, passable. The taste, however, isn’t as nice. Dominated by a very odd flavour, a mix of beets, carrots and ash, reminding me of a Slovenian beer I had last summer. Skok I think. Interesting but overbearing and just not nice. Some light hopiness surrounds it and that’s pretty much it. Not as offensive as the sum of its parts, but I wouldn’t buy it again. I hope the other Hungarian micros are better.