Wiosello
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Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.57
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Alengrin (11609) reviewed Wiosello from BeerSelect 1 year ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 7.5
Blonde beer commissioned by a beer wholesaler in Limburg, advertised as a three-grains beer, though oddly the ingredients list only mentions barley malt - so I guess this beer does not really contains three different grains, but three different barley malts (which must all be Pilsener malts considering the looks of it, weirdly)... Huge, foamy, egg-white, papery lacing, very moussey, stable head on an initially crystal clear, pale yellow golden beer with vague 'old golden' tinge and disparate but very active sparkling feeding the head, turning misty and a bit more ochre-ish with sediment. Aroma of raw cereals, white bread dough, white soap, banana peel, wet white paper, glue, grass, buttercups, margarine, oxidized green apple slices, unripe pear, sour sweat, hint of unripe green plums in spring, iron, potato soup gone sour. Crisp, mildly fruity onset with notes of unripe pear, halfripe banana and ripe green apple, sweetish but not sweet, with moderate, softly tingling, minerally carbonation; underneath this subdued and superficial sweetishness, a deeper sourishness lurks, persisting all the way through, reminiscent of spoiled potato or courgette soup. Supple, slender body, bit glueish, grainy indeed with some thin pale malt (white) breadiness but generally feeling very Pilsener- or Dortmunder-like; floral and grassy hops appear in the end but very softly so, with a superficial bitterness on the surface of the tongue, yet still managing to add lasting, almost saison-ish dryness and body to an otherwise straightforwardly grainy finish. There is a clear sourish graininess and glueishness to it all, making me suspect that indeed some other grain species could have been used (perhaps spelt, or buckwheat) but remains undisclosed, as it is nowhere explicitly mentioned, not even in the press release; I see no reason why this element should remain shrouded in mystery, guess I will have to ask this beer wholesaler if I ever meet him, but in any case it does not help the fact that as a whole, this is the umpteenth clean, pale blonde 'blond' trying to compete with the still almighty pale lager and that to me is still a dodgy starting point when creating a top-fermented Belgian style beer. We are not impressed - but that refined floral and grassy hop bitterness does try to save the day here and I can appreciate that.
SVD (7137) reviewed Wiosello from BeerSelect 3 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home, golden beer, small head. Aroma is grain, light dusty, light fruit. Taste is the same, grainy, malt, dusty, bitter, light fruit and sweet, long bitter, drying aftertaste average.