Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
A hazy orange beer with a nice white head. The aroma is sweet hoppy. The flavor is sweet malty with lots of grass, as well as some caramel and grapefruit, leading to a dry hoppy end. The mouthfeel is somewhat sticky.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
An unclear orange beer with a small white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of straw and caramel. The flavor is sweet hoppy combined with notes of caramel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
A hazy orange beer with a small white head. The aroma is very lightly malty, while the flavor contains lots of hops and is very crisp on a malty backgroun. The flavor is really Bohemian, but the flavor lacks a lot.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
A pitch black beer with a thin "nitro" dense brown head. The aroma is slightly roasted combined with slight chocolate notes. The flavor is rather mild with notes of coffee, leading to a nice roasted dry end. Nice, but I’d like more power.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
A hazy orange beer with a small orange head. The aroma is very yeasty - as if it hasn’t finished fermenting, combined with notes of brewmash. The flavor is quite hoppy with a touch of alfa acid and oranges, leading to a dry slightly metallic end. There is no congruence between the aroma and the flavor.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
An unclear light orange beer with a small white head. The aroma is sweet with strong notes of wheat, but also notes of coriander and banana. The flavor is also very wheaty with notes of oranges, banana, and hints of coriander, leading to a dry wheaty end.
Drinking this, I interpreted it as a fusion between a German Hefeweizen, with the malted wheat and banana flavors, and a Wit, with the spices especially coriander - which the description also states, though it is listed as a Wit. I never found a fusion wheat that I really liked.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Now this was a surprise beer, walking into l’Amere a Boire the morning after the grand tasting at RBSG, my eyes quickly noticed the name Odense - the largest city on the island Funen in Denmark and the birth place of Hans Christian Andersen, that turned 200 this April. My first thought in my hung over mind was that this could have nothing to do with Denmark - and if so it must be a tribute to Hans Christian Andersen. But neither was true. It is named Odense since the yeast comes from a now closed brewery in Kerteminde (situated on Funen), where the brewmaster from l’Amere a Boire had visited once a long time ago, and had been given some of the yeast, since he liked the beers from Kerteminde so much. Unfortunately the brewery closed before my interest in beer started. Where Odense comes into the equation didn’t I understand - except for the proximity to Kerteminde. Maybe it is about time the yeast is reimported, since a new brewery is starting up in Kerteminde.
The style was supposed to be a Danish Porter style - but that is Imperial Porters - so that can’t be true with the specs of the beer - so the style Dunkel as it is listed as, is pretty precise.
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An opaque black beer with a small brown head. The aroma is very light - what is there is roasted. The flavor is sweet and very roasted, combined with light notes of chocolate and wood. The mouthfeel is very smooth, but the body is thin.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
reddish amber ale with a thin white head. Fresh sweetish malt aroma with fruity esters. Good crisp malt base with rye whiskey malt notes, and peppery hops. Lighter bodied.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Light yellow, opaque. Marshmallowy aroma with light citrus. Spicy flavour, sweet and marshmalllowy. Finish has a slight tartness and sharp sweetness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On draught at the brewpub, 6/3/2005 with tiggmtl, muzzlehatch and Bret Kuhnhenn. Pale-white-gold, with some light lime green and slight yellow tints to it. Thoroughly cloudy with a small white head that dissipates very quickly, leaving some lacing behind. Aroma of fresh coriander, bold and spicy. Sharp citrus notes foretell the flavor and there is a good amount of hops apparency, relative to style. Flavor starts out with coriander and citrus and then BAM, near the end and climaxing on the finish is a huge acidity. Almost like lemon sorbet, it really opens your eyes and is quite unexpected. Wheat-like body is smooth and carbonation is light and tingly. But either the hops or spices or both really create a spectacular sharpness on the finish. Quite yeasty on the end as well, with some very light doughy pale malt notes. Medium-body, little to no thinning.