Imperial Zest
Extraomnes in Marnate (VA), Lombardy, Italy 🇮🇹
Farmhouse - Imperial Saison Special|
Score
7.14
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Saison/Specialty Ale dal profilo aromatico tendente agli agrumi,
pompelmo soprattutto, e un finale speziato rinfrescante.
In bocca è molto secca ma con un alcool ben presente che
ammorbidisce la bevuta.
Il finale ha un amaro gradevole e prolungato che invita a nuovi sorsi
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Imperial Zest from Extraomnes 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Hoppy tripel from this Italian craft brewery, bottle from Beergium. Tightly 'membranous' lacing, egg-white, fairly thick, dense, stable head only showing a few gaps in the middle after minutes, over a misty peach blonde beer with ochre-ish hue, turning deeper ochre and eventually downright muddy with yeasty sediment. Aroma of old orange juice, pear, ripe banana peel, soap, powder sugar, ripe peach, calvados, butter, stewed sweet apples, cloves, chewing gum, dried apricots soaked in 'jenever', dried ginger, straw, moist white pepper, wodka, camomile flowers, bee wax, parsley, sparkling water. Fruity onset, the old banana ester paired with apricot-, pear- and pineapple-like notes, sweet in its core (also due to a kind of residual 'white sugariness' like in many Belgian tripels) but surrounded with a mild, green apple- and gooseberry-ish sourishness providing balance against this sweetness; medium carbonation softly tingling on the tongue, establishing minerally aspects that brighten up the banana (even bubblegum) ester a bit. Thick and smooth, quite heavy, bready and a tad buttery malt body with cake-like and notably soapy aspects to it, while the sugariness thinly continues alongside a much more pronounced bubblegummy factor; finishes in a confident, indeed somewhat 'zesty', wormwood-like and floral hop bitterness, eliciting saliva-like juiciness while clove-like phenols begin to abound and the banana ester stubbornly persists. Earthy yeastiness is there as well, a bit on the 'dirty' side even especially after adding the sediment, before being washed away by not only the leafy, spicy hop bitterness, but also a wodka-like, warming alcohol glow, accentuating the pepperiness of the finish. Sweetness, still with this somewhat banana-like edge to it, lingers after swallowing, bittered by the generous dosis of hops and made a tad wry by the alcohol. The soapiness remains in the back of the mouth as well - a bit too much so for my liking. Indeed too soapy, too bubblegummy and too alcoholic for me to thoroughly appreciate, but as a bitter tripel the Belgian way, this beer gives a convincing performance; if only the masses of 'real' Belgian tripels were this hop bitter (but in this case I think the 'tripel saisons' like Bons Voeux were the inspiration). That said, if I was to drink this blind and was told that this was actually Belgian, I would have easily believed it; so if the intention was to create a thoroughly Belgian-style strong blonde ale, mission accomplished - completely. I'm afraid I just had too many a beer like this in my life now - though admittedly the firm hop bitterness in this particular case does a fine job at compensating for that and I have to admit that there are some strong saison-like traits to it, not that far removed from the abovementioned Bons Voeux. The alcoholic wryness does keep bothering me a bit, though. Not Extraomnes' best offering I think, but I only had a few of their beers so I will refrain from putting this into the context of their overall portfolio. One point of criticism regarding the name, though: when I bought this, I was mislead by the name which obviously suggests DIPA - so my disappointment in running into another Belgian style tripel may influence my score here a bit, though I really try not to let that happen.
lore (7878) reviewed Imperial Zest from Extraomnes 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
hazy brownish-yellow colour, large, dense off-white head; aroma of orange zest, mango notes, some peach and celery notes; taste of sweet, overripe tropical fruits, biscuits, orange zest bitterness, celery notes and spicy-eppery notes; great beer
77ships (14506) reviewed Imperial Zest from Extraomnes 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Thank you for sharing tderoeck! Sampled draft @ VCBF 2017. Either changed preferences and/or different circumstances but this one is bit too BE for me, lacks balances, cleanness of the regular one. Beer is always different fro me. Always varies. Golden orange, little white head. Soapy nose, grainy, zest, too soapy with strong BE esters. Taste is very soapy too much so with touch too heavy BE esters, zest. Body is soapy & esters. Expected more honestly. Maybe another time it will be different again.
tderoeck (22711) reviewed Imperial Zest from Extraomnes 8 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as Extraomnes Imperial Zest (by Extraomnes):
Aroma: 6/10, Appearance: 5/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 13/20, MyTotalScore: 3.4/5
11/VI/17 - on tap @ Vleteren Craft Beer Festival - BB: n/a (2017-903) Thanks to 77ships and kraddel for sharing today's beers!
Little hazy blond to dark blond beer, creamy white head, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: grains, cow fodder, spicy, farmhouse ale yeast. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: grains, spicy, coriander, yeast, pretty bitter. Aftertaste: spicy, bit sweet, malty, grains, hoppy touch, bit sourish.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Imperial Zest from Extraomnes 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 330ml. [ As Extraomnes Imperial Zest ].ABV: 9.0%. Light light unclear light medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate hoppy, grass - leather, citrus, moderate yeasty, leather - grass. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a long duration, citrus, yeast, pale malt. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20150813]
Harrisoni (26233) reviewed Imperial Zest from Extraomnes 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from gbbf 2015 and drunk at home. Hazy amber lasting off white head. Cereal aroma some esters but some puke too. Settles down s bit. Some satsuma hop. Not great.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Imperial Zest from Extraomnes 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at cropredy 2015... Hazy amber... Big white head.. Soft zezty passion fruit nose... Long bitter bitter bitter herbal orange... Massive you could say Imperial zezt
Leighton (34941) reviewed Imperial Zest from Extraomnes 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Keg at CBC Clerkenwell. Thanks for sharing, fellas. Pours clear gold with a creamy white head. The nose holds peach, melon and orange. Medium sweet flavor, moderately bready, with piney and rindy bitterness, more peach, faint yeast, grapefruit. Quite hoppy. Medium to full bodied with average carbonation. Lightly warming on the finish, hugely citrusy, with some tropical fruits to boot. Solid.
hirigalzkar (4345) reviewed Imperial Zest from Extraomnes 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draught @ La Torre Del Luppolo. Sweet, yeasty, sour and hoppy. A good modern belgian strong ale. Heavy notes of orange cest.
Theydon_Bois (46224) reviewed Imperial Zest from Extraomnes 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Keg at CBC Clerkoooo, 14/07/15. Hazed orange golden with a decent light beige covering. Nose is apricot, farmyard, citric peel, straw, bitter orange, light spice. Taste comprises light booze, straw, tangerine, apricot, sticky fruit peel, bread. Medium + body, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Decent hopped oop Belgo affair.