Bottle at home, from Asda. Pours clear amber, nose is sweet toffee, very light fruit, taste is dry, toffee, some berries.

Zdecydowanie lepsze piwo od 80 szylingowego. Bitter z dodatkiem różnych owoców leśnych: malina, jężyna, jagoda itp. Piwo dokładnie zbalansowane między słodycza owoców, a gożkością bittera. Niewielki skarmelizowany osad, a w zasadzie fusy czy resztki po owocach. Ciekawa i trwała piana, zapach intensywnie owocowy. Finisz już bardziej gozki.

Oct 2006: Found this bottle the morning after a Bavarian evening I hosted, someone obviously got lost in the beer shop, or couldn’t be arsed to find any German beer (as the invite insisted on). Looked OK in a Belgian ’Verboden Vrucht’ glass, as I thought that would be fair to the beer. Amber colour with a good soild head, almost white. Sadly, it left the scene fairly swiftly, to leave a swisp of remains stuck to the side of the glass, joined by a few remaining strings of white. Blackberry, Blackcurrent and Raspberries hit me straight away, but like the head, didn’t seem to stay to long, which was a shame, because I was begining to think this might be a great beer. The taste also changed mid-beer, all fruits at first, with lemon taking over towards the end of the pint. No great mouthfeel, taking on the Belgians with an ABV of only 4.6% for a fruit beer was very brave, unfortunately they were not brave enough in my opinion and have failed big time. Nothing wrong with this beer, it just didn’t ’do it’ for me.

It has a pale copper colour with small white head. Aroma of malts and berries. Slightly bitter finish and refreshing aftertaste. Medium-to-full body.

29th October 2006
Warning! Early amateur rating! Rich flavour. Dry palate. Complex array of fruits - raspberry, blackberry, strawberry and blackcurrant. Not bad.