Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle as shown. Pours a cloudy yellow with small frothy off white head. The aroma is sour fruit and tart. Thin mouthfeel with light spice and sour fruit with light dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Charleston Beer Exchange. It pours clear gold with a medium white head. The nose is wheat, light toast, hay, cracker, smoke, cream cheese and ham. The taste is wheat, toast, hay, light sourness, hint of smoke, peach, apricot, pithy citrus and natural yogurt with a dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. Smooth, well-balanced and pretty tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
50 cl. bottle sampled @ RBESG 2013. Thx! to jfb. Hazy golden with a creamy white head. Nose is paint, new wood, light smoke, touch acetone, touch paint thinner but not overly brutal, interesting. Taste is sour grains, some leather, sweet spices, mellow sourness, wheat, mellow smoke, touch bread, lightly fruity,… Easy to drink, lightly grainy body. Very easy to drink, interesting, quite lovely. Nice stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
50 cl. bottle sampled @ RBESG 2013. Thx! to jfb. Hazy golden, very citrus, bright lemon looking, white head only on the sides. Nose is lactic, cereal, citrus, fruits, sour lemon,… Taste is sour lactic lemon, grains, sour grains, lemon peel, lemon candy, light funk. Touch higher carb. grainy. Interesting, enjoyable & could certainly be quite sessionable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5
50 cl. bottle sampled @ RBESG 2013. Thx! to jfb. Pours a very murky bright citrus yellow with a creamy white head on the sides. Nose is hupe lemon soap, mint, herbal, ginseng, candy,… taste is very bitter gingeng, huge mint, bitter candy, very long herbal candy, flowers, ginseng linger on for a very long time on the pallet, brutal anise, rosemary,… Touch high carb. Interesting that is for sure but this is almost impossible to drink it is like a super concentrate of herbs which are tolerable only in small quantity & many of which I do not like. It is almost like a joke, absolutely brutal. Not even sure what to rate something like this. I wouldn’t call it bad but it just so many intense tastes in such high concentrations at once which even in small portions would be overkill for me. This marks the first time I find myself supporting the Reinheitsgebot.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
50cl Bottle at RBESG’13 Grand Tasting. Murky pale yellow colour, white head. Aroma of loads of spices, ginger, bay leaf, caraway, some anise, cardamon. Flavour is very herbal bitter, rosemary, bitter thyme/rosemary oil, caraway, dry bile-like bitterness. Smells OK, tastes awful imo. Interesting stuff though. Light-bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled @ RBESG 2013 Grand Tasting. Cloudy yellow color, short head. Aroma of soft citrus, hay, hint of horseblanket. Bit sweet, slight acidic, soft sourness. Bit thin, bit too much carbonation. Too dry, bit sweaty, hint of apple cider. It has quite some potential, but it just not really gets there. Could have more funk and more sourness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottled @ RBESG 2013 Grand Tasting. Cloudy golden color, medium head. Aroma has smoke, wheat, banana. Bit sweet, slight dry. I really like this combination of beechwood smoke and sweet banana. Nice stuff.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 2 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
Bottled @ RBESG 2013 Grand Tasting. Extremely cloudy yellow color, short head. Huge amount of spices in the aroma, something I really don’t like. Soft sourish taste, bit sweet and immense bitter sensation that dry out the tongue. Very hard to rate this to style, as I simply dont like all those spices. Glad they ’invented’ hops.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle @ RBESG grand tasting. Hazy pale yellow color, small white head. Not a lot of aroma other than a light fruityness. Taste is dry, slightly sour fruits and green apple. Not bad but I’ve had better beers from this style.