Mean Sardine Brewery

Microbrewery in Ericeira, Lisbon, Portugal 🇵🇹
Associated Venue: Mean Sardine Taproom - Out of business

Established in 2013

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Ericeira, Portugal
Description
There are plenty of Sardines in the sea but you just caught a Mean Sardine! No chemicals, no secrets, no bullshit, just pure brewing. We like them Mean!

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6/10
Tried on 22 Sep 2023 at 14:46

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
22/IX/23 - on tap @ Borefts Beer Festival Day 1, BB: n/a (2023-632) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!

Clear orange beer, small creamy white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very rural impression, malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, meh. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: a bit sourish start, very malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, very rural taste. Aftertaste: pears, some apples, rather unpleasant, meh, don’t like it very much.
Tried from Draft at Brouwcafé de Molen on 22 Sep 2023 at 14:45

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Keg at borefts. Pours clear pink,nose is hibiscus, raspberry, floral, taste is similar, sweet.
Tried on 22 Sep 2023 at 14:36

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Keg at borefts. Pours black, nose is chocolate, cherry, lemon, taste is similar, roasty.
Tried on 22 Sep 2023 at 14:35

7.3/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
22/IX/23 - on tap @ Borefts Beer Festival Day 1, BB: n/a (2023-630) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!

Little cloudy bright carmine red beer, no head. Aroma: fruity, red berries, sourish impression. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: sourish start, fruity, lots of raspberries, a bit metallic, dry, spicy touch, good! Aftertaste: lemony, green apples, raspberries, some jam, pretty sourish, nothing sweet, dry finish.
Tried from Draft at Brouwcafé de Molen on 22 Sep 2023 at 14:35

7/10
Tried from Draft on 22 Sep 2023 at 14:31

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
22/IX/23 - on tap @ Borefts Beer Festival Day 1, BB: n/a (2023-629) Thanks to all for sharing today’s beers!

Clear dark brown beer, small creamy off-white head, unstable, non adhesive. Aroma: very malty, grains, hay, cow fodder, grains, some cardboard. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, a bit sourish, gentle roast, more acidic, a bit hoppy, green apples. Aftertaste: sourish, a little bitter, gentle roast, pretty watery all in all...
Tried from Draft at Brouwcafé de Molen on 22 Sep 2023 at 14:30

5.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5.5 Texture 5 Overall 5
Relativ trockener, hell brotiger Beginn, süßlich, Kaffee. Wenig aromatisch, kurzer Abgang, ein scharfer Ton kommt auf. 10/7/8/6//7
Tried from Draft on 22 Sep 2023 at 13:51

5.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 5 Overall 5.5
Mild säuerlicher, spritzig fruchtiger Beginn. Rhabarber, wenig Himbeere, süffig, erfrischend. 10/9/10/7//8
Tried from Draft on 22 Sep 2023 at 13:50

5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 6 Texture 5 Overall 5
Wässriger, mild röstiger Beginn. Leichte Bitterkeit, minimale Süße, dumpf. Naja... 10/7/9/7//7
Tried from Draft on 22 Sep 2023 at 13:48