Mandarina
Almanac Beer Company in Alameda, California, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Regular|
Score
7.10
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Grumbo (24387) reviewed Mandarina from Almanac Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Can from New Beer Distributors, New York. Pours slightly hazy pale gold with a large frothy white to off-white head. Aroma of orange, lemon peel and yeast. Moderate sweetness and bitterness plus very light tartness. Light body, slight oily texture, average carbonation.
explosivedog (14050) reviewed Mandarina from Almanac Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
330ml can. Pours pale without much head. Orange, mandarin, tangerine, lemon, funk, white wine grapes. Delicate, fizzy, nice.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Mandarina from Almanac Beer Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Clear golden and peach coloured body with a large, super soapy white head with large bubbles that stays around for quite a while. Aroma of bright funk, some citrus, a lot of hay and grass, flowers and a touch of sugar near the end - mainly caster sugar, but some fruitiness as well. Super light-bodied; Strong grassy and herbal notes throughout with a very mellow yeastie flavour along with some funk, dry grass and hay and ending with the faintest bit of citrus. Aftertaste shows the funk, yeast, coriander seed, wheat and light citrus front and centre without much sweetness or depth - this is all pungent and dry at first, then simple and goes down very easily. Overall, a nice and easy-drinking beer that shows some good characteristics, perhaps very good for the low ABV, but missing something, predominantly body and complexity, but also some balance and a bit of sweetness as well. Nice to try, but not worth going out of the way for, even if in the middle of summer in the pressing heat. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from New Beer Distributors in New York, New York on 21-January-2017 for US$2,75 sampled at home in Washington on 17-May-2017.
BeerPlace (10899) reviewed Mandarina from Almanac Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
355ml can from Elizabeth Station. Pours a hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is tart, citrusy, slightly funky. Taste is pretty the same with flowery bitterness, slightly smokey. Refreshing, quite pleasant.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Mandarina from Almanac Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cloudy pale with a big head. Has a yeasty, orangey nose with creamy pale malts. Sweet, light orange, has a fairly fresh character. Light body. Refreshing.
poisoneddwarf (5469) reviewed Mandarina from Almanac Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12 oz can. Aroma is SweeTarts, vanilla, orange peel, banana, clove. Pours hazy orange with a medium off-white head with decent retention. Taste is mildly tart, dry. Super foamy carbonation. Not a big fan of this one. Too much carbonation, not enough flavor.
Gerbeer (8214) reviewed Mandarina from Almanac Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
12 oz can. Pours a yellow/gold with full head. Aromas of orange juice, pineapple, pine, and a little banana. Flavors of piney citrus, green apples, and pomegranate, with a bit of funky white pepper and light malts. Would be a good summer pounder.
Davros (5279) reviewed Mandarina from Almanac Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Pours gold with a fading head.Nose shows manarin peel, kumquat and orange.Similar flavours, lots of citrus, a bit of pith and a subtle acidity.
CoastGuardVet (6205) reviewed Mandarina from Almanac Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a moderately hazy burnt crisp orange color with a quickly dissipating finger’s worth of white foamy head. Strings of lace glide down the side of the tulip.
The aroma starts off with sweet mandarin oranges, a gentle touch of tangerine pulp and then some yeasty/bready sweetness. Sly white pepper tries to balance, but really stays far in the background.
The flavor leans sweet and arranges some dusty floral sweetness underneath. White pepper gracefully attempts to come back, but once again stays far in the back. Crisp sweet citrusy aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light on the body with a spectacular sessionability about it. Low carbonation is felt all around.
Overall, really nice well packed full of sweet flavor but the tartness that the can speaks of isn’t really there. Me, I didn’t mind, but still would love to have again in the Summer while fishing.
hawthorne00 (9781) reviewed Mandarina from Almanac Beer Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can. Hazy orange with a rapidly vanishing white head. 3- Aroma has lots of citrus (grapefruit as well as mandarins), pepper and coriander, crackery dough. Very light bodied, somewhat minerally. Carbonation is moderate. Fairly dry with a nice melange of citrus. Not as spicy as suggested by the aroma. No funk to speak of. Doesn’t dry out much further at the moderately bittter end. Refreshing.