Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle, 2010 harvest. Bright red-orange amber, low lace. Acidic and earthy aroma. Starts acidic on the tongue, segueing into a citric and grassy hop note, crisp, light leafy, lactic again in the finish. Fruity, mandarin middle, earthy/salty, medium to light body, sparkly champagne mouthfeel. quick fruity finish. Interesting, not quite worth its sticker price though.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle @ RBESG 2011 Grand Tasting at Dean Swift. Yeasty aroma. Some orangey fruit in mouth. Quite interesting and fruit is pretty intense. Very good beer.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at RBESG 2011 Grand Tasting ... hazy amber ... soft sweet light yeast nose ... zezty fizzy front ... soft yeast ... orange ... hint of pine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ RBESG 2011 Grand Tasting at Dean Swift, Tower Bridge SE1. Pours a hazy golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity grainy malty weak sourish aroma. Fruity malty grainy hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty grainy finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Medium, darker cream-coloured head, reasonably stable over cloudy, but bright-orange beer. Caramel, and a fine, slighlty lactic/acidic aroma, that comes as very lambic-like to me; citrus, and fine aromatic (USA-typed?) hops. Like marrying sweetened or young lambic to Cascade... Coffeemilk, too. Taste features again a - very fine - lactic acidity, though less comparable to lambic. Lemon and lactic, sour cream flavours. Retronasal distinct earthy notes, like a filtered, slightly caramelsyrup-sweetened gueuze. Warming up, it acquires more vinous (vin blanc sur lie, as Muscadet) notes. Fine, indeed Champenoise-like carbonisation, if less intense than real sparkling wine. Slick, medium bodied. Excellent, I must admit. Blind, I’d even wagered an overcarbonated Lindemans/Timmermans gueuze, better hopped. If only they’d come clean about its real point of brewing...
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
7th August 2011
Dean Swift - RBESG Tasting. A 7.1% abv bottle -Evnte 2010. Hazy gold beer, big pale cream coloured head. Very light frothy palate. Creamy malt. Light sour apple - in a good way! Light citrus. Creamy malt finish. Unusual! The apple tastes fresh and deliberate rather than a bi product of a brewing mistake. Halfway between a cider and a pale ale. Very enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at RBESG 2011 Grand Tasting at The Dean Swift, London. Pours clearish gold with a foamy, white head. Sweet malt nose, some caramel. Bit of wheat, sugar and mild tartness in the flavor. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Has a wheaty, sweet finish. Decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Glowing ornage, with lace. Pretty. Aroma of citrus and biscuity malts. Flavor is citrus hops and sweet, rich malt. Smooth and tangy. Interesting combination of German malt flavor and hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Blind tasting at Yespr; corked bottle
Hazy light amber color; generous creamy head. Light caramel aroma. Ordinary body strength, with simple caramel flavor, light sweetness in the front and a bit drier later; traces of yeast, and consequent mild astringency; there is also a note out of tune that seems to be the beginning of an infection. Some alcohol warmth in the end. Unimpressive.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Süßlicher Hopfenantrunk, in den sich eine feine Säuerlichkeit einbringt. Deutlich hefig, der Hopfen lässt relativ schnell nach und ist entäuschend schwach. Im Abgang dafür würzig hefig mit leichten Malznote, die ebenfalls innerhalb der Hefe zu finden sind. Süffiges Bier, das aber weit davon entfernt ist, 20€/Flasche wert zu sein. 7/9/10/10/13/10