Draft at FOB, Rimini, Italy. Pours a nice black with small head of cream foam, very fine and persistent. Aroma is malty, caramel, candy sugar, coffee liquor, licorice. Body is dense with moderate carbonation. Taste has good sweetness, moderated by alcohol. Finish is fairly long and liquor-like, recalling licorice.

The second beer named after a soap series character impersonated by a locally well-known actress, the follow-up to a blonde version. Only slightly lacing, very mousy, opening, pale greyish beige head over initially lightly misty, mahogany brown beer with reddish-ruddy hue. Aroma of overripe black cherries, caramel candy, treacle, candied fig, old maple syrup, rotting pear, medlar, stewed blue plum, maracuja, very old polyester rug, wet dog, band aid phenols, rosehip tea. Very sweet onset, cloying even with a lot of residual brown sugar, notes of banana, pear and overripe plum, with a sourish edge accentuated by prickly carb but also feeling rather lactic (as in an 'oud bruin'), with a slick, almost vinous mouthfeel; 'simple' caramelliness in the middle with a cereally backbone, still dried by this lactic effect, however soft it may be. Ends with clinging, cloying, caramelly sweetness, a herbal but non-bittering hop accent and an ongoing lactic dryness, as well as something unpleasantly polyester-like. Weird beer, it's as if an attempt at an old school (read: sweetened) 'oud bruin' was made here - which would be a first for a brewery located in more or less the right region - but somehow the cloying sweetness and plastic-like effect kept bothering me all the way through. Faintly reminiscent of Liefmans in its worst (Riva) days and not pleasant to drink at all. Maybe I should have bought the blonde one, but then the fictitious character depicted here is a brunette, so... In short: weird and not too pleasant, a bit like the soap opera character itself, I guess.

Il gusto al naso propende per il frumento e lo speziato. L'intensità olfattiva è normale e la maniera in cui permane è sufficiente. Il cappello di schiuma resiste abbastanza. La grandezza delle bollicine è medio-fine. Il liquido è di aspetto velato e anche qui la grandezza delle bollicine è medio-fine. Il colore è giallo dorato brillante. Il corpo è pieno. L'amaro è nella media. La forza gustativa è elevata e si prolunga in modo sufficiente. Il gusto è piacevole. Le sensazioni boccali finali risultano di pronta beva. Il finale è semplice e dissetante. Il retrogusto è di decente intensità. Sul tetto della bocca si depositano impressioni di miele, frumento, agrumi, coriandolo e spezie.

Flaske fra Vinmonopolet Tromsø - Sentrum. Delt med EgilB på Høgda. Ultradyprød. Filmskum. Metallaroma. Silkemyk munnfølelse. Smaken druer. Innslag av sjokolade etter hvert. Alkoholen godt kamuflert.

19.04.2013, tap @ Kulminator:
N�ytral lett frisk lukt med preg av m�rk malt, humle, gras, kakao, litt lakris. Lett beisk smak med preg av m�rk malt, humle, nitrogen, sur kaffi, beiskt gras, umoden banan, gj�r, sjokolade, karamell, lakris. Middels bitterhet som set litt. Grei.

330 ml. bottle. BBF 28/03/20. Golden, low hazy, creamy white. Nose is grainy, esters, spelt, insecticide & huge perfume, artificial / chemical orange peel profile. Lively body. Old bread, spelt, orange peel, esters, soap, perfume, huge orange perfume dominates everything, weird artificial perfume, sweet perfume, faint alcohol. Strange huge perfume chemical taste. No unpleasant flaws, good for fans of the style but I am not one of them.

330 ml. bottle. BBF 06/06/2020. Pale citrus sparkling, disappearing big white big bubble white head. Nose is fake lemon, thin, aloe vera, fizzy, fancy hand soap & beer coriander. Fizzy thin. Lemon, citrus, lemonade, ginger lemonade, fizzy artificial ginger, chemical, still decent for what it is and what it should be, overall it is okay, too fizzy & bit too thin.

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