30th September 2014
Craft Clerkenwell. Bottle tasting. Thanks to Leighton. Hazy gold beer, good cream colour head. Palate is airy and semi dry. Mild fine carbonation. Airy creamy malts. Good hops - mild skunk, light floralness and a little hop spice. Airy finish. Nice.

Bottle thanks to Leighton. It pours cloudy golden-orange with a small white head. The nose is soft, juicy, apricot, mango, sherbet, earth and wheat. The taste is apricot, mango, earth, yoghurt, sherbet, hay, minerals, creamy and alka seltzer with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Smooth, balanced and easy-going. Nor bad.

Rich, super hazy deep brown coloured body with a very muddied glow and a nice two centimetre tall tan head - this is a great looking beer which has a very nice unfiltered look. Aroma of roasted malt, bananas, yeast, light cloves, milk and some subdued chocolate notes. Full-bodied; Strong malt note with a lot of pungent alcohol and bitterness up front with a little earthiness and a touch of coffee on the finish, all with a very big bitterness throughout from metal. Aftertaste is relatively one-dimensional with the malt bitterness hitting hard and some light sweetness as well. Overall, a fairly simple beer that looks great and smells nice, but the taste just simply doesn’t deliver - way too bitter and one-sided, while not providing any good flavours nor complexity. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from New Beer Distributors in New York, New York on 18-July-2014 for US$8,25 sampled at home here in Washington on 30-September-2014.

Bottle shared in London - picked up in MA. Pours cloudy yellow-orange with a frothy white head. Pleasant dried lemon aroma, some pine needles, pale bread. Medium sweet flavor with lightly tangy citrus, ripe lemon, weat bread, faint melon and grass. Medium bodied with average carbonation. Finishes with some bitter grass and citrus rind, further wheat bread, ripe lemon. Pretty well balanced. Tasty.

Bottle. Hazy deep copper liquid with medium light tan head. Aroma of lemon, white pepper, toffee, caramel, light iron and grain. Taste is light to medium sweet and light bitter with notes of toffee, grain and caramel. Medium bodied with light to medium carbonation. Pretty good.

Bottle. Hazy golden liquid with medium white head. Aroma of toffee, citrus, bread, caramel and pine. Taste is dry and medium bitter with notes of pine, citus, toffee and caramel. Medium bodied with medium carbonation. Too malt forward.

Bottle. Hazy golden liquid with notes of white pepper, lemon peel, jenka, bubble gum, grain and sweet alcohol. Taste is dry and light bitter with notes of lemon peel, jenka and white pepper. Light to medium bodied with medium to high carbonation. Pretty nice.

Bottle at Mikkeller Bar Stockholm. A bit hazy golden/yellow with a small white head. Quite sweet with citrus, light spices, wheat, hay, yeast and malt. The finish was slightly sour. An ok one.

Bottle at Mikkeller Bar Stockholm. Clear dark brown with a small head. Toffee, fruit, malt, some light notes of nuts and chocolate. The mouthfeel was creamy.