From tap at Decenska location. Pours hazy yellow with a huge white head. Aroma is estery and light fruity. Classic wheat beer flavoured, yet on the mild side on the esters. Light yeasty and medium dry finish.

At the Turtle 3. Really happy they still have it but expected the worst as it’s been 3.5 months since it came out. Murky caramel brown body, small off white head. Sourish nose, covers some light maltiness. The taste is certainly fresh, yet tart, pretty much infected. Will want ro rerate this if I get the chance. Ok low maltiness, peachy tartness. Slightly earthy. Meh.

Whee, ran into another Turtle seasonal while in Belgrade for a "new year seminar". This time they tried to emulate a Belgian style of sorts, which, it seems, means "dump spices and fruit in your lager" around these parts. It poured a deeper golden body (or so it seemed in the dim cellar of the Gospodar Jovanova location), with a white head. Sweaty nose, almost a trademark of sorts, carrying notes of rotten agrumes. Oh joy. The sweatiness, unsurprisingly, permeates the generally soft taste which carries a nice lemony note from the spices, maybe vaguely soapy. There’s even a light herbal, almost grapeseed-like bitterness building up in the aftertaste. After the initial disappointment, it kinda grew on me, more likable than the rest of their lineup available at the time (the pale and the battered ruin of what used to be a passable rauchbier). I love that they experiment, I just wish they’d nail it more often.

From tap. Pours cloudy orange with a creamy, dense and off-white head. Aroma is light metallic and light citric. Sweet fruity, light milky and light caramelish. Citric and light milky finish. Ends light citric and mild fruity. Off, yet not offense just boring. Increasing bitterness into the far finish.

From tap. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild smoked and vague butterish. Toasted malty and slight sweet caramelish. Bitter and toasted caramelish finish. Light meaty touch.

From tap at the central Belgrade location. Pours clear and golden yellow with a small white head. Aroma is mild grassy and light cornish. Bitter, light butterish and cornish. Simple bitter and persisting cornish to butterish finish.

18/08 Draught at the BBF 2011. As I was told, different that their dark beer normally offered in the brewpubs, now we couldn’t find it and it’s not listed anymore on brewer’s website, so it might be replaced by this stout? Anyway, its dark brown body had small head and smelled on caramel and coffee malt with inevitable herbal hops. Flavor was elegant coffee, sourish and dry, complemented a bit with caramel notes. Quite watery, thin bodied. Simple and shorter dry coffee and tobacco finish. A decent stout, unfortunately more body would help a lot to pronounce its fine malt. Thumbs up for the Black Turtle anyway!

18/08 Draught at the BBF 2011. It poured purple blueish body with medium sized violet head. Blueberry aroma, sourish and slightly herbal hoppy. Flavor is more sour than a sweet, tart like real blueberries though still seeming quite artificial. Problem with ugly bitterness showing up immediately remains, similarly to strawberry, but it might be a bit less pronounced. Liked it a bit more than strawberry, as it’s not that sweet. Also, it’s so much better than version I had the day before in the pub, where they mix it only after tapping the beer. I guess this contains less syrup.