Vibrant Forest Brewery Salzen

Salzen

 

Vibrant Forest Brewery in Hardley, Hampshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Wheat Ale Regular Out of Production
Score
6.57
ABV: 5.8% IBU: 12 Ticks: 12
Brewed especially for the 2018 Leuven Innovation Festival, Salzen is everything we want in a dessert beer. Salted Caramel Banoffee Pie, eh? We took a very oat and wheat-heavy base, threw in some sweet and sticky malts, and fermented it on Hefeweizen yeast to bring forth all of the banana. To that we added a salt and caramel blend to really infuse the beer with its namesake flavours. Vibrant Forest...Packin' the Puddin'
 

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6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught@CBH2018. Hazy orangeish amber colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is bananas, some toffee, herbs and mild floral notes. Flavour is caramel, some toasted notes, mild banana as well as some pine to it.

Tried on 31 May 2023 at 16:19


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Keg at Castle Tap, Reading. Standard Hefe aroma - banana and cloves. *Edit: just sniffed the dregs and those do smell of caramel. Cloudy amber-gold. Creamy white head. Initial sourness before sweetness envelops it. Primarily banana but, yes, there is some salted caramel in there, more so into the salty aftertaste. Medium bodied. Creamy. Average carbonation. Long finish. Decent enough. It works but is is necessary?!

Tried from Draft on 06 Oct 2018 at 16:29


6

Tried on 12 Aug 2018 at 11:42


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Tap at One Pint Pub, Helsinki. Colour is cloudy light orange with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Fryits, banana, sweetness and malts. Very malty wheat ale. Strong malty flavors.

Tried from Draft on 21 Jul 2018 at 19:01


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

330ml Bottle - Hazy amber in colour. Banana and toffee in the aroma. Banana, caramel and some slightly salty notes in the taste. A bit of a novelty but quite nice.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Jun 2018 at 20:05


7.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle at home. Pours deep orange, nose is banana, caramel, toffee, lemon, taste is sweet toffee, dry, yeasty, banana.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jun 2018 at 20:01


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Sampled at LIBF18. Thnx for sharing, everyone ! Pours rather unclear blonde, small white head. Smell is funky, but not sour. Honey like . Taste is full, sharp, honey, tad bitter, very sweet, rather malty.

Tried on 06 May 2018 at 13:51


7

Tried from Draft on 06 May 2018 at 12:25


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

F: medium, off-white, quick gone. C: deep gold, hazy. A: malty, watery, vaguely banana fruity, mineral. T: malty, fruity, bit honey, herbal, not very good balanced yet drinkable, medium body and carbonation, sample @ LIBF 2018, thank you tderoeck and 77ships for sharing.

Tried on 28 Apr 2018 at 07:30


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Thank you for sharing tderoeck & Rubin77. 330 ml. bottle sampled @ LIBF 2017. Amber orange, little head. Nose is massive sweet banana, sugar, candy, candy & esters wheat. Taste is thin banana, caramel, soap, candy, thinner than the smell. Body is thin banana. Way too sweet & thin.

Tried from Bottle on 19 Apr 2018 at 17:44