Special Bitter With No Future

Draft at the brewery. Hazy, deep amber colored. AROMA- fruity, peach, dark fruit, caramel, vegetable. FLAVOR- neutral, bitter, fruity, caramel, some vegetable and disinfectant. Medium bodied.
Acceptable.

On tap at Craft Room, Zagreb. Pours amber, nice medium off white head. Rye? Malty, caramel, grainy, bit herbal. Somewhat harsh bitter finish. Medium bodied. Average carbonation. Actually better than expected.

Deep amber colored, medium beige head. Aroma is malt, some grain, mostly old toast, some yeast and bit herbal. Taste is medium- sweet malt, mostly bread and stale toast, grainy, yeasty, light biscuit, light honey, some herbal notes, medium- bitterness, some harshness. Medium- bodied, soft carbonation. Without sugar coating, not very good, at least this batch. (on tap, Craft Room, Zagreb)

On tap at Craft Room Zagreb. Darker amber coloured, medium sized beige head, light fruity herbal nose. Sweet malty, caramel, fruity herbal and touch of hops with sweetish finish. Also some dry honey notes. Not bad for this style which I don’t prefer to much.

On tap & presented at Craft Room. Was sad I’d missed it when it came to Tolkien’s and Leopold’s this winter, but yay for Anna for rebrewing it! This is a true beauty, a fantastic murky red-amber body with a slightly off white head. Simple, effective aroma, malt, very mild strawberry jam, vague herbal notes. Taste... it’s held up with lovely dark bread-like maltiness - subdued and a constant as the beer warned. There’s this strange, slightly vinuous, slightly herbal note (that’s not from the honey - which gave no taste) throughout that escapes clear identification, with some liking it, some not. What it most definitely is - it’s very, very drinkable, with the silky body ensuring that it’s moreish. The pub blew through both kegs (36l in total I guess) in 3 hours. It was on tap for, like, 20 minutes after I’d gotten to presenting it and it was gone - indeed, this beer’s future is virtually non-existent once it gets on tap, I don’t remember a beer with such a disappearing act. All in all, not Anna’s best or most fascinating beer, far from it, but another quality Vunetovo which doesn’t detract from their deserved reputation.