6.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Keg at the brewpub 2023-06-30 Gliwice AR: wee dried banana skids AP: hazy yellow, frothy big head F: wee dried banana skids

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle at the brewpub 2023-06-30 Gliwice AR: roasted malt, chocolate, AP: dark brown, beige lid F: roasted malt, chocolate,

5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Pours almost black color with small to meidum sized head. Light roast malts, pretty light chocolate. Bit watery.

4.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2

Dark lager by this - to me - unknown Polish microbrewery, thanks Jonathan. Mousy, yellowish pale beige, bubbly and irregular, medium sized, breaking head on a hazy chocolate brown beer, quite dark but still translucent with wine-red hue. Aroma of moldy acorn shells, tea gone bad, soap, dried figs, halfripe blackberries, dust, detergent, dead tree leaves. Fruity onset with sweetish fig and raisin notes but also an initially blackberry-like, but eventually very 'dirty' sourness clearly hinting at infection, like in the other two beers I had from this brewer; medium carb, brown-bready and caramelly, soft malt sweet core marred by this sour milk- and spoiled vegetable-like sourness, dirty and powdery, even a tad astringent; earthy finish with a leafy hop bitterish note, but then this weird brown soap- and detergent-like chemical effect appears. The sourness lingers, combining with the dark malts to an effect not unlike 'oud bruin', but in the worst way possible. Clearly unintentionally sour, very weird and heavily infected like the two other beers I tasted from them - if this represents their brewing skills, I think they urgently need to find another job. Still the least undrinkable one of the three, though that is cold comfort in this case, I'm afraid.

3.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1.5

American style pale ale by this microbrewery, containing no less than eight fancy hop varieties; again thanks to Jonathan for sharing the bottle. Thick and coarse, egg-white, tightly shred-lacing, bubbly head, hazy deep peach blonde with amberish tinge. Aroma of dried grapefruit peel, dried bitter herbs, orange peel, soap, dried peaches, industrial cleaning product, dried out vomit (excusez le mot) on an old cloth. Fruity onset, peach and apricot notes, fizzy carbonation but ruined by a continuous infection sourness, 'dirty' and unpleasantly sour like spoiled soup; soft 'old bread'-like maltiness with a light cracker-like edge, ending with a long, rooty, leafy bitter finish from all those hops - a dash of dried orange peel tries to save the day, but that very unpleasant dirty-sour infection effect remains till the end. Well-intended but such a shame that - like the two other beers I had from this brewery - this one was infected to such a high degree that I could not physically finish the glass. Hadn't this marring infection been present, then still I doubt if it had been a very good APA, considering how the hops establish more explicit (IPA-like) bitterness here than citric or otherwise colourful aromas. Tastes like a sour IPA, basically, but a very 'dirty' and unpleasant one.

2.2

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1

Unfiltered pale lager by this Polish microbrewery in Gliwice, thanks Jonathan for sharing. Thin and opening, off-white, irregular ring for a head, eventually dissolving into nothing, cloudy deep peach blonde robe. Unpleasant and weird aroma: peeling old paint on rusty metal, soap, detergent even, dirt, spoiled carrot soup, wet cardboard, old oxidized apple juice, soggy old bread. Peachy fruitiness in the onset, sweetish but very quickly overcome by an explicit 'dirty' sourness (spoiled soup, fermenting vegetables) very clearly caused by bacterial infection; medium carbonation, bready middle with ongoing infection effects, bit powdery, adding wet old cardboard on top as a clear sign of oxidation - adding insult to injury, in other words. Ends with this weird industrial cleaning product and rusty metal aspect, along with an effect reminiscent of old oxidized apple juice or even cider, its sourness still established by continuous infection. Too old and clearly cardboard-like oxidized, but on top of that very heavily infected as well: I have no idea what this was supposed to taste like and I hope for these guys it tastes better fresh, but in the shape and form that I got, it bordered on the undrinkable. It has been a very long time since I had such a badly infected lager.

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap in a coal mine at level 320m (Guido Zabrze). Pours a dark amber color. Slightly grainy and bready, caramelly.

6

Kawa, lekka palonosc, nieco zbozowej slodowosci, lekkie, niewysokie wysycenie, , niewiele ciala, slodkawe karmelowo z wytrawnymi posmakami