18/08 Draught at the BBF 2011. Was so thrilled to see this here! It poured clear reddish to brown body with small head. Only little peat in aroma reveal its smoked character, while it’s normally fresh herbal hoppy (they tend to use those same hops in most of their beers). Bacon, smoked meat, charcoal, heavy and robust flavor, slightly rotten, while still interesting. Herbal hoppiness doesn’t belong here, though they’re obviously present. Medium bodied with fine peat and smoked meat finish. Slightly acidic here. Nice, though crude and too heavy, but I can appreciate they even dared to make a rauchbier!

18/08 Draught at the BBF 2011. It poured hazy orange body with smaller to medium head. Fine orange and other citrus aroma, sweeter than on usual IPAs I admit. Flavor was weaker and less tasty than expected, but still fine. Strange bitterness, like in German pilseners dry it all the way through finish, where cardboard remains only. Fruity citrus notes from the nose still exist in its flavor, rounding it slightly. Surely more hoppy than other local beers, more unusual, actually incomparable with ordinary brewpub lagers and a very interesting thing.

16/08 Draught at the brewpub. It poured slightly hazy golden body with medium sized head. Fine sourish and biscuit aroma touched with herbal hops. Fine hoppy, slightly bitter flavor, bread malty. Thinner, watery body, relatively short, bread and slightly chalky finish. Simple, a bit light, but fine and refreshing lager.

From the keg at the BBF 2011 Poured a darker red body going purple. Sweet blueberries in the aroma, more of the same in the taste. Way more balanced from the keg than it was at one of their pubs mixed in the glass. Not bad but far from the best fruit beer - a borderline inclusion in any case!

Draft at the BBF 2011. Poured a ruby red colour with a slightly pinkish head. Wild strawberries in the nose (!), but quite strong and sweet. The taste is wild strawberries again, ending sugary sweet. Smells better than it tastes.

Rerate:I was glad to see this on tap at the Gospodar Jovanova location when we went there on the 29th, having liked it at the festival. I’ll keep it short. This time there was scarcely any smoke, both in the nose and especially in the taste. Not bad, but it took a huge hit, it was even slightly more pale than it was at the fest. Damn. 6/4/5/3/11 Original rating:When I saw a banner that hinted at the existence of this, to be debuted at the 2011 BBF, I was giddy with anticipation. Looking lovely in the glass, a clear dark orange-red body and a yellowish head, it initially disappointed me with the nose initially. Nicely fruity, yeasty, strawberry jam and cream - it didn’t smell smoked at all. Vary after the "IPA", I saw luttonm try and be excited about something. Maybe it was a good beer despite that? Yeah, it is, but it did taste smoky. The dominant smoked cheese taste is propped up with sweetish general maltiness and maybe some light lemon. There’s a residual ashy bitterness that didn’t help drinkability much, but didn’t take away from it much as well. Croatia should REALLY take some notes from this newly developing Serbian micro scene. Not necessarily in terms of quality, but in terms of innovation! 7/4/7/3/14

Draught at BBF 2011. They had released this at the beginning of April (well, 31.3., but close enough) and since there was none at the outlets, we’d hoped that it’d be there on the festival and lo! It was. This poured an opaque very dark brown body with an off white head. Slightly papery nose, some oily maltiness, vague lemon and coffee that’s vague at first and then takes over as it warms. Nice, soft coffee taste, some light bacon/dried meat. Sweetish, not much hop. Not terrific but great for the Serbian standards. None of these "ales", the White Clover ones and the TBT ones are particularly aleish, if there was top fermentation going on, it didn’t left much trace, but some of them, especially these new TBT beers, are way above the local average anyway.

Draught at the BBF 2011. So, we had hoped that their Stout would be there and that what they were hinting at releasing really is a Rauch. An IPA we didn’t expect. At all. And, in the end, didn’t really get. This is how it goes. It poures an opaque, full amber-red-brown body with a really persistant thich white head. Lookin’ good. The tangy papery lemony nose was a dead giveaway that something’s "wrong". Not that it’s bad, just not IPA-like. The taste is papery lemon again slightly biscuity and grainy. Not much bitterness, but for Serbian standards one can indeed say that this is hop-driven, though hardly in the proper IBU range for an IPA. Reminds me of Croatian brewpub (Medvedgrad/Zlatni Medo) unfiltered lager when those are on form. Which hops are used? Goldings? All in all, on a global scale this is nowhere, on the Serbian scale, it still sticks out and it gets an "overall" point more just for having made some effort.

Draught at Black Turtle, Decanska 23, Belgrade. Hazy golden, small head. Grassy and fruity. Medium bodied and mid sweet with soft mouthfeel,. Slight winegum and grass, fairly low bitterness. Nicely drinkable with some interesting flavours. I like it.