Mosaic
Brauerei Nova Villa in Sankt Vith, Liège, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Regular|
Score
6.03
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Koelschtrinker (42542) reviewed Mosaic from Brauerei Nova Villa 10 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3.5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
Heller herber Beginn, süßlich, wenig hopfig. Getreidig, Karamell, unsüffig. Trocken, kurzer Abgang, muss nicht sein. 12/6/6/6/9/6
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Mosaic from Brauerei Nova Villa 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
33cl bottle. A clear golden beer with a big white head. Aroma of metallic bitter hops and grainy malt. Taste of mild juicy hops, yellow fruits, mirabelles, sweet pale malt.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Mosaic from Brauerei Nova Villa 4 years ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 4.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
Nova Villa ale hopped with Mosaic, a New World hop and therefore almost by definition associated with the IPA world – though atypically perhaps, the word ‘IPA’ is not mentioned on the label, so I guess this beer is to be interpreted as a Belgian blonde ‘infused’ with a dash of global craft beer culture. At Big Easy in Sankt-Vith, close to where it is brewed; thanks Craftmember for sharing. Medium thick, off-white, opening but largely retaining head on a hazy straw blonde beer with somewhat ‘murky’ beige hue. Aroma of old dried lemongrass, old cheese rind, stale lime juice, kiwi, bread crumbs, very old white soap, withering jasmin flowers, honey, moist cardboard. Fruity onset, hints of pear and red apple with some green kiwi, fizzy carb, supple body; cereally, bit powdery middle, bready maltiness, sweetish but moderately bittered by grassy and subtly citrusy hops, adding retronasal aromas of lime and very faint mango, but also old cheese and dusty cardboard. The colourfulness and freshness Mosaic or any other New World hop can bring, is sadly absent here – so the spirit of Mosaic is all but lost, apart from lone traces of it here and there. Too bad: this is a well-constructed and well-balanced beer in its basic structure, but it seems the combination of old hops and probably far from optimal storing conditions turned out fatal for its final quality. I am, however, certainly willing to give this one a retry when fresh - so for now, benefit of the doubt.