Grumbo (24737) reviewed Gaura Neagră (-2021) from Bere à la Cluj 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle in trade with ciocanelu, cheers Silviu! Pours almost black with a small fine bubbly tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla, and light coffee and nut. Medium plus sweetness, light roasted bitterness. Medium body, soft carbonation. Finish is dry, sweet and malty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
BOTTLE 33 CL (free sample from the brewery). Hazy ruby-brown, beige head. Lots of jammy fruit and caramel, some sticky molasses and just a dash of DMS-y cereals. Similar taste, pretty heavy on caramel, but also quite bitter, with spicy grassy and piney finish. Quite good and clean.
Bytemesis (16323) reviewed Gaura Neagră (-2021) from Bere à la Cluj 9 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Pours opaque black, medium tan creamy head, good lacing. Aroma is roasty, cocoa, molasses. Flavor is medium sweet, light bitter, roasty, cocoa. Medium body.
Bytemesis (16323) reviewed Phaza Lunii from Bere à la Cluj 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 3
Bottle. Pours hazy Amber, small off white head, dissipates quickly, some lacing. Aroma is wort, caramel. Flavor is really sweet, wort, more wort. Medium body. Totally unfinished.
dnicolaescu (3911) reviewed Gaura Neagră (-2021) from Bere à la Cluj 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
19-DEC-2016. BOTTLE 33 CL. Almost black, dark mocha head. Light chocolate nose, coffee beans, spending grains and grassy hops, fresh cut grass. Taste: generic porterish roast trains and vague sweetness. A bit of roast acidity as well as the CO2 makes it feel thinnish and fizzy. A pinch if hops in the finish. An ok cheapo porter. And it did improve since the first batch. 6-4-6-3-13=3,2
03-AUG-2016. BOTTLE 33 CL. Opaque dark brown, tan head. Smells of dark sugar, unfresh malts, a touch of coffee beans. Harsh taste of spent coffee grounds, bad malts and burnt sugar. Though it’s roasty and bitter, it still seems watery. Hop pungency and some roasty malts in the finish. Way below average. 5-3-5-3-1=2,7
dnicolaescu (3911) reviewed Phaza Lunii from Bere à la Cluj 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
JUL-2019. Draft at CCBF. Hazy palest straw, white head. Bright floral aroma, really low on malț sweetness, some husky spice. Similar taste. Really low bitterness. Feels a bit thin - undercarbonated? Quite nice overall. 3,6/5.
22-OCT-2017. Murky amber, off-white head. Sweet candied citrus and vegetable broth, cooked corn, yeast. The taste starts sugary sweet, caramel and vanilla, some piney bitterness towards the end. Rough but chewy young beer mouthfeel. Drinkable, but flawed. 4-3-6-3-11=2,7.
16-DEC-2016. Dirty amber, off-white head. The nose is cooked corn galore, nothing else at all. The taste also has loads of corn, but some grains, hints of caramel and the light chlorophyll bitterness makes it more bearable. Seriously flawed. 1-2-4-3-8=1,8
02-AUG-2016. BOTTLE 33 CL. Muddy grayish-amber, light beige head. Plain caramel malt aroma, cereals and some tomato puree. Taste: again, merciless caramel, grassy/chlorophyll hops and tomato notes. Carbonation a bit flat. Light dull grassy bitter finish. Below average, needs work. 5-3-5-2-11=2,6