Draught@TCBW2022. Amber colour with a slightly off-white head. Aroma is citrus, some grapes, mild yeasty funk with some slight herbal tones. Flavour is grapes, some citrus, funk, mild wood as well as some fruity and mild slight acidity, which gives it a nice complexity.

Draught. Copper colour with a small head, which vanishes quite fast. Aroma is acidic and tart fruits and wood with some slight cherries and mild sweetness to it too. Flavour is acidic and tart fruity tones with some wood, cherries and mild vanilla and freshly cut wooden tones to it.

Imperial stout as interpreted by old familiar Italian LoverBeer, apparently quite oldskool as it clocks in at a mere 7% ABV. Vintage 33 cl bottle bought online, dating back to 2011 apparently - at least that is what the neckfoil says... Densely creamy; mocha-beige, rather thick, regular and stable head on a jet black robe. Interesting and 'kaleidoscopic' aroma of coffee grounds, dried prunes, bitter black chocolate, old wood, ripe blackberries, dried blueberries including the sour aspect, oxidized Chianti wine, dried fig, subtler hints of raw cinnamon, dry sherry, bayleaf, dried passionfruit, coffee cream, elderberries, green tree leaves, black tea, Cuban cigars faraway in the background, dry caramel, limestone. Fruity onset, quite supple for the style with estery notes of elderberry, red apple, passionfruit, fig and blackberry, restrainedly sweetish with a persistent yet soft sourish undertone (persistent enough to effectuate something 'oud bruin'-like, as in a sour stout), rich and 'dark' in a somewhat juicy and red berry-like way; softish carb, supple body, oily and smooth yet not nearly as thick and syrupy as most contemporary 'impies'. Layers of dry caramel, bitter chocolate, walnut and toasted brown bread ensue, but again more slender and supple than one tends to expect from a 21st-century imperial stout; sweetish but subduedly so, with more emphasis on roasty bitterness in the end, even though this bitterness too remains altogether softish. Vinous finish, in which a dry sherry-like oxidation is clearly noticeable, but far less so than I was expecting from a beer now thirteen years old; hints of bayleaf, clove and vague liquorice set in too, but the entire flavour becomes even more dry than it already was, while the alcohol remains very well hidden, even if a red wine-like effect is omnipresent from middle to finish, propelled forward by a long-lasting, tannic, astringent woodiness from the 'barrique' treatment. This is Italian elegance in imperial stout for sure, but more than anything, this is old school imperial stout in a way I have not had for many, many years - as if the U.S. craft beer movement never happened. A blast from the past, somewhat astringent and overly vinous perhaps, with clear Flemish oud bruin-like features which would never appear in a truly historical imperial stout (LoverBeer's Dama Bruna even springs to mind here and there), but certainly rich and rewarding. An interesting find, as they say.

Draught @ Patrick's Pours hazy amber with a small off-white head. Aroma is tart with notes of malt, fruitiness, vinegar. Taste is light to medium sweet and medium sour with a long slightly dry tart, citrus, fruity finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft

[as LoverBeer For Fan, brewed in 2018] Bottiglia. All'olfatto si esprimono sentori di sour e di acetico. La finezza olfattiva è elevata e la persistenza è buona. Il manto birroso superiore è caratterizzato da una schiuma dalla scarsa tenuta. La grandezza delle bollicine è a grana media. Il liquido è di consistenza limpida. La frizzantezza si presenta con bollicine fisse sul bicchiere. Il colore è rosato carico. Il corpo è pieno. L'amaro è nella media e c'è anche una componente moderatamente acidula, con salivazione in bocca data tipicamente da acidità da frutta. La forza gustativa è elevata e la persistenza è buona. Le sensazioni boccali finali risultano di birra beverina. Il retrogusto è di decente intensità. L'aroma in bocca porta i segni di frutta secca, agrumi, spezie, limone, albicocca, erbe aromatiche e frutta passita.

Natadal 150624. Amber color with a white head. Aroma is funk, grapes,. Flavor is funk, grapes, melon, grass, vinegar, fruit, wood. Very nice beer.

Dark golden with a white head - Tart wood and berry aroma - Malt body with some sour wood and berry flavours - The malt with berry flavours goes into the finish - This was good

Bottled 375ml. -at Goblet Zagreb. Vintage 2018. Amberish coloured, no head at all, grapes and some dried fruits in the nose. Grapes, dried fruits, light oxidation, touch of leather and funky notes in the finish.

Lukt: Syrlige frukter. Utseende: Gulbrun. Skum/kullsyre: ikke skum. Smak: Syrlige frukter. Medium: Rating:2.5-54547, Flaske@375ml, ABV@8%, Når@15.07.2024. Hvor: Samling Uppigard Natadal LoverBeer Nebiulin-a Sour / Wild Beer - Flavored