28th Jan 2019; Shrewsbury Beer Exchange Group meeting in Chez Sophie. 75cl cork and caged bottle, cheers Simon for my first Moldavian rate. Red hue to the brown body, wispy head. Nice blend of cherries and red wine in both the aroma and taste (no beer like attributes like yeast, hops or maltiness). Semi-sour and interesting.

Cloudy bright orange, sticky off-white head. The smell is big fresh citrus, oranges, mandarin oranges, both pulp and zest. The underlying sugars add a hint of lollipop to it. No aniseed detected, maybe just a hint of rosemary/spruce. The taste is quite a bit of a departure - very little malt sugars, some oranges, some pith and strong lingering rosemary/spruce bitterness. Very well integrated.

JAN-2020. Really cloudy amber, not murky though, sticky off-white head. Smells of citrus crush - thick and fruity yet not sweet, both slightly stale and fresh, with quite a lot of citrus peel oils and spruce / rosemary resins. Similar taste - really rich chewy unsweet citrus, lots of oils and resins, sharp bitterness with notes of rosemary and that old style citrus peel / dry leaves hops. Almost no proper malț sugars and no bready / doughy or any other yeast related offs. Yep, yummy and crushable, but also quite brutal and the bitterness is harsh. Hope the fruit stays fresh for longer than a few days.

28-DEC-2018. Draft at Craft Baza. Hazy medium dull amber, creamy light beige head. The aroma is still full of oranges and tangerine peels, but it has taken a sweeter lollipop like cheap note +though it is not that strong. The same lollipop notes are the in the flavour as you start to sip, though the strong dry pithy bitterness drown them really soon. Still nice, though the candyish notes certainly do no good to this beer. 6-4-6-4-14=3,4.

21-DEC-2018. Draft at Craft Baza, PET growler at home. Murky amber, small head. Smells like a fresh peeled off tangerine orange - no more no less. Maybe a slight hint of crystal sugar in the background. Taste is light orange / grapefruit juice, boatloads of pithy bitterness and zest oils. It might seem a little over the board fruity at times, but the lingering citrus bitterness forgives everything. Very... Easy going. Well done. 7-4-7-4-15=3,7.

Beers of the World country 115: Moldova 🇲🇩

"The beer is hazy dark red with no foam at all. It smells like the red wine barrells it has been stored on for 6 months. The taste is sour and fruity with lots of cherry. The finish is slightly short and on the boozy side. Might be a good beer if you like kriek style beers, but not for me." - beersoftheworldproject.wordpress.com

Date: 28/11/2018

PET growler from the brewery. Murky pink/wine color, small pink head. Ironically, the aroma is almost devoid of fruit, and is quite bland overall - just a hint of lightly toasted malts and raw cereals. Maybe I'm getting some smelly socks? The taste has a lots of fruit juice tartness and skin astringency. Light nutty / fruit seed butternes is all that reminds of beer. It is tasty, but one could hardly call it a beer, more like a dry young fruit wine.

Közepes, nem túl tartós hab, vöröses árnyalatú barna szín. Animális, kissé savanykás, szilvás illat. Enyhén savanykás, hajszálnyit édes, animális, lambicos ízek, némi szilvás aromával. Közepesen testes, közepesen szénsavas, enyhén keserű. Nagyon finom, jó arányokkal és kellemes, frissítő ízvilággal rendelkező sör.

Szinte semmi, azonnal elillanó habocska, narancssárgás árnyalatú félbarna szín. Gabonás, enyhén fehérboros illat. Íze édeskés gabonás alapon szőlős, kissé savanykás fehérboros aromákkal. Közepesen testes, enyhén szénsavas, enyhén keserű. Szokatlan párosítás a szőlővel, de finom lett.

DRAFT at Smokehouse. Cloudy orange, white head. Faint aroma of strawberry marmalade, not much IPA. Taste: there's quite a bit of fruity malț sweetness - not exactly strawberries - but the pungent yet smooth bitterness masks it all out well. The body is a bit too sticky for an IPA, otherwise... Solid.

A palackból kihabzik, de a pohárba kiöntve gyorsan eltűnik a tajték. Zavaros, vörösesbarna szín. Enyhe, istállós, lambic-os illat, határozott, de nem tolakodó hordós beütéssel. Kissé savanykás, animális, istállós ízvilág, tipikus lambic, némi fahordós aromával. Közepesen testes, erősen szénsavas, enyhén kesernyés. Tipikus lambic, bár nem annyira aromás mint a belga társai, de azért finom.

DØE. Hazy golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, fruit and grapes. Flavour is malt, fruit, grapes, warming, medium sweet, little bitter and white wine.