Bottle from Mikkeller web shop cons 2016-11-26 Göteborg AR: cinnamon, vanilla, traditionally Swedish rice pudding AP: hazy/cloudy bronze, high steady lively cream ofwhite head F: rich carbonation, sweet, vanilla powder, cinnamon, traditional Swedish Christmas rice pudding, lovely aroma flavor not matching all the way!

Aromat troche lzej, ale w smaku to japco z cynamonem i troche ryzo, przedszkolne danie. Wanilia w posmakach. Dziwne, takie smakowe

Bottle at tasting. Aroma of rice, grain and sweet vanilla. Flavor has lots of creamy vanilla, rice, grain, cinnamon and a sticky finish. I understand why people hate this, but I dig it.

Bottle at hanging bay.. Thanks Robert... Copper. Thin white lacing.... Soft sweet... Big sweet vanilla.. Soft sweet toffee fruit nose... Light vanilla custard fruit --- Beer merged from original tick of Or Xata (2015-) on 09 Mar 2021 at 16:55

Bottle found at the Lewiston Smokes N Suds. Pours a lighter shade of golden honey with a large, but fizzy and short-lived white head. The aroma is mild, it’s sweet and reminiscent of a blond ale with bits of cinnamon. Taste is on the sweeter side, but not as heavily sweet as I would have thought coming from The Bruery. Good carbonation, picking up light cinnamon and a sweet honey and vanilla finish. The vanilla really lingers. Good, overall I liked this more than anticipated.

Sweetish and intense smooth with vanilla and cinnamon. The Rice is there and reminds me of traditional milk-rice with cinnamon and sugar. Interesting sticky, smooth aromafull, very interesting stuff - but very sticky!

All Pints North 2016. One of the best beers I tried at the festival. Opaque color. Tall head, dark yellow color. Aroma has some honey, and flavor is a lot more honey, sweet, some cinnamon. Smooth palate. I do not always like lactose but it worked here.

A toast to International Beer Day. I’ve been curious about this for quite a while, a beery evocation of horchata, which, contrary to what the label states, has originated in Valencia, Spain, though the Latin-American interpretation has added cinnamon and vanilla to the Spanish original. Thinnish, lightly lacing, off-white head quickly opening, initially retaining as a moussy rim but eventually disappearing; lightly hazy deep and pure golden blonde colour with somewhat greenish hue and slowly rising, sparse strings of bubbles here and there; becomes equally cloudy and gains a peachy hue as more of the bottle is emptied into the glass, to eventually end completely muddy, with only a very thin rim of foam remaining - (unpleasantly) looking like home-made pear juice. Aroma of indeed a lot of vanilla bean and a lot of cinnamon, mixing well with each other and taking turns amongst each other, but at the same time vehemently dominating fainter hints of red apple, peach, cooked rice (much like in an Asian lager, actually), raw pineapple, baker’s yeast, white bread, sugarloaf, green banana and even a hint of melting plastic which (luckily) fades again as quickly as it came. Spritzy, quite refreshing onset with fruity impressions of raw pineapple, green banana and red apple again, sweetish with a soft underlying sourishness; carbonation is fizzy and somewhat coarsens an otherwise smooth mouthfeel, but calms down towards the end. The aromatic spicy sweetness of first cinnamon and, more towards the finish, vanilla, spans the remainders of this initial fruitiness as well as the ’cereally’ and very lightly caramelly malt sweetishness underneath, which is ’soured’ a bit by the effect of the rice, a familiar effect known and ’loved’ from Asian lagers (but here, of course, in a much more ’covered’ and embedded way); especially the vanilla is strong retronasally and in the aftertaste, but I happen to love vanilla, so I cannot be bothered. Sweetness remains: some late fruity hints, lactose too I guess, but there is a very vague, very deeply buried, ghost-like echo of herbal (hop) bitterishness all the way at the back providing nothing but background structure and body to the finish as such. A very, very lightly metallic apple-like flavor served with a lot of cinnamon and vanilla remains after swallowing. Bizarre alright, but not as otherworldly to me as a Belgian as it may come across to some other people’s palates: in its general concept, this is not so very different from certain sweet Wallonian spice beers, for example; the heavy cinnamon dose also hints a bit to the more modern American pumpkin ale tradition. What does distinguish it from both, though, is the strong scent of vanilla, recurring equally strongly in the taste; I personally think vanilla is one of the most seductive aromas in nature, but admittedly people who do not like it, will probably be unable to like this beer just as well. And underneath the special additions to make it horchata-like (in the most abstract way), this is just a simple, fruity blonde ale, not unlike the countless Belgian blondes I encounter here. Not something I’d return to, but interesting to taste once as a ’boutique’ beer, unsuitable for daily use as far as I’m concerned. In general, I expected (a lot) more from this Bruery too, I guess...