Was a massive gusher, unreasonable. It’s muddled clouded, vegetable-like. The weed does come through. But it’s not a well made beer. Funky, but broken. Online saveur bier

07.09.2018 -- 0.33l bottle from alsace, bb 10.2017. pours a hazy pale golden with a medium head. aroma of ginger, candy, plums, mirabelle, blood oranges, slight perfume, not so much weed. flavour of ginger, grass, lemon zest.

French spice beer with hemp, a clever way of trying to convey the idea of a marihuana beer without actually containing any THC, the chemical compound responsible for the psychoactive effect of the female flowers - a concept I have seen before (see e.g. Cannabier by Belgium’s Hopperd brewery) - thus handily getting around any legal objections concerning its production and distribution. Bottle under high pressure, but no gushing; towering high, bath foam-like head even with very careful pouring, loudly crackling, egg-white in colour and inches thick at first but eventually diminishing to some loose patches of bubbly foam in the middle and a medium thick, bubbly, loose head around the edge of the glass. Lightly hazy ’old gold’ colour with tiny, translucent bits of yeast everywhere and strings of small but lively bubbles here and there on the edges. Sharp aroma of a soapy, strong, bittersweet spiciness which much closer resembles gin spices (juniper berries!) or even gale than anything ’weed’-like, freshly cut nettles, pineapple, old abbey cheese, stewed red apples, melon, angelica, powder sugar or even some vanilla sugar, sweetbread, yellow kiwi, bread crust, baker’s yeast (subtly), ripe Doyenné pear, dry cookies, sweet sparkling white wine, fresh ginger, honey. Sharply overcarbonated onset, very minerally and unnecessarily souring, numbing the tongue completely at first, hiding an otherwise fruity profile, with a lot of sweet banana-flavored bubblegum ester next to hints of unripe plum, apricot and raw pineapple, subtly sourish but more sweetness than sourness, accentuated by residual white candi sugar sweetness sticking just a little bit to the palate. Mouthfeel is obviously coarsened by the strong overcarbonation. Pale malt sweetness in the middle with a sharper grainy edge, bready accent too, becoming stronger as the sediment is gradually added, enhanced by bready yeast effects; the white candi sugar and isoamylacetate sweetness lie on top of this and continue well into the finish, only to be countered by a lightly peppery, grassy and mildly earthy hop bitter touch in the end, but more so by that dominating, soapy, angelica- and juniper berry-like, perfumey spiciness in the end, both retronasally (strongly so, almost bath foam-like) and in pure flavor (as a soapy, resinous effect lingering after swallowing, becoming even wry and unpleasant in the very end). This may be spiced with hemp in some form or another, but honestly, I do not get anything even remotely cannabis-like out of this beer’s aroma or taste; there is a very strong spiciness for sure, dominating an otherwise stereotypical Belgian style blonde background, but it seems to have a lot more in common with juniper berries and other herbs or spices traditionally used in gin. This feature puts this beer close to e.g. Palm’s Arthur’s Legacy Hop(e)less Ginny and the like - and since I am one of the seemingly last people on the planet to utterly dislike gin and thus gin-flavored beers, I cannot say I enjoyed this beer. This gin-like spicing lends the finish a wry, unpleasant, astringent effect - not to mention the issue of the overcarbonation, even for a beer based on the ’Belgian blonde’ standard. No serious off-flavors or obvious technical flaws here (implying I may give this brewery another chance if I encounter one of their other beers), just not my cup of tea in terms of concept. Spice beers, explicitly advertized as such, rarely carry me away, I’m afraid: spices have always been used in beer of course and I have nothing against them per se, it’s just that when a beer is effectively profiled as a spice beer (usually themed around one single spice or herb), many brewers tend to go over the top and instead of adding it as a subtle hint, allow it to take over and overpower a beer which is otherwise fine in numerous cases. This one does just that - and, I repeat, with gin spicing rather than anything cannabis-related, in my experience.

Dla mnie jest to dziwne piwo. Jakas przyprawe wyczuwalem, ale nie zidentyfikowalem jej. Piwo jasne zlociste ze srednia pianka. Paprochow sporo bylo i plywaly sobie po szklanicy. Ale jakies dziwne i nie specjalnie oszalamiajace. Bardzo takie sobie

Ins Glas ergießt sich ein trübes milchiges goldenes Bier mit geringer Schaumkrone. Geruch sehr würzig, Hanf, malzig. Geschmack süß malzig, Gewürze, Hanf, leicht scharf würzig.

Bottled 330ml Hazy yellow color, small white head. Weed, berry juice, grass in the nose. Sweetish, a bit fruity flavor, also weed in the flavor. Nothing special.

Bottled (thanks to my parents!). Yellowish colour, small white foamy head. Aroma is weedy, some herbs, mild zest and some sweet notes. Flavour is very sweetish herbal with some mild berries and sweet malts as well. Balanced and not that bad. Actually the most weedy beer I have had...

75cl bottle sample @ Arden BrewFest. Dorée léger, fizzy, col blanc disp. vite. Arôme est herbacé renfermé sur un léger citronné avec ce côté fourrage. Palais rend bien le côté chanvre, herbe qui donne une dimension assez sympa à la bière. Le tout reste sec sur un malt type carapils. Sur la fin un profil presque aiguille de pin se distingue pour un fini léger en amertume.