Kalea Bier-Adventkalender 01.12.2021 (Restl-Version von Hofer, weil ich zu spät bestellt habe...) Gleich hinter dem ersten Türchen sitzt das diesjährige Perlenzauber, das schon einmal ziemlich grauslich, aber letztes Jahr ausgezeichnet war. Das heurige würde ich als oberes Mittelfeld bezeichnen. Es lässt sich angenehm trinken und hat nette Hopfennoten und es hat ein harmonisches Mundgefühl, aber irgendwie fehlt das gewisse Extra. Ich kann nichts schlechtes über das Bier schreiben, aber auch nichts das es außergewöhnlich gut war.

33cl bottle. Pours hazy orange, with fine white foam. Aroma is fruity, banana in particular. Body and carbonation are average. Taste is medium sweet, but with a bitter and dry final.

500 ml can, Advent Calendar, Costco (who has the time or patience to wait?). Very clear gold with a small white head. Lots of carbonation. Citrus, green grasses, caramel nose. orange oil, green leaf, grasses, caramel, toasted malt.

Flasche 0,33l (Kalea Bier-Adventskalender): Helles Gold, glasklar, mäßig stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; süße + würzige Nase, helle Fruchtigkeit, dezente trockene Zitrusnoten, leichte Röstaromen, eher trockene Hopfennoten, kräftig Malz, süßes Getreide, Karamell, deutliche Hefearomen, Brotkruste, würzig-süße Bitterkeit; frischer + würziger Körper, kräftige würzige Süße, Honig, leichte helle Fruchtaromen, Honigmelone, kräftig Malz, Getreide, Karamell, cremig, kräftige Kohlensäure, dezente Röstaromen; süßlich-würziger Nachgang

330ml bottle. Clear, yellow-ish, golden colour with small to average, frothy, diminishing, white head. Sweet-ish, minimally starchy and minimally strawy, pale malty and minimally fruity aroma, a touch of yellow apple, mandarine, vanilla, surprising whiffs of white chocolate. Taste is sweet-ish, slightly starchy, minimally sugary, pale malty, a touch of brown sugar, mandarine, vanilla, white chocolate, very weak, herbal-spicy overtones. Creamy-oily texture, smooth and soft, slightly cloying palate, fine, soft to flat carbonation. Nice malty taste, neither too sweet nor too starchy, but definitely a bit cautious if not weak - OK.

Completely clear blonde in colour. Thin head with quite quick dissipation. Good nose: almost like a belgian blond, hints of coriander, brown sugar, musk, vanilla but also grassy, herby. Mouth quite sweet up front, alcohol, lingering sweetness and neutral bitterness. Quite good but not amazing.

Deep dark amber and copper coloured body with a good two to three centimetre tall off-white head that stays afloat nicely. Aroma of light bread, yeast, grainy malts with some crisp caramelised sugars and a dose of toffee with nuts towards the end, but the hops here are very minimal and showing low alpha acids and a German or English variety. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong rich earthy malts dominate here with a lot of caramelised sugars, toffee, earth, grain and a good hint of yeast towards the end. Aftertaste shows a dash of very light hops without much bitterness or alpha acids with only a nutty and earthy bite of malts towards the end with almost more sweetness than hops here. Overall, a decent beer, but nothing like any IPA from this side of the Atlantic, but that was to be expected, and even for a German 'IPA', this wasn't so great, but it was still nice to try as part of the Advent calendar, but just not a great option if you found this in a local store while in Germany and were considering bringing this back across the pond. I sampled this 50 cL can as Day #21 from the Costco Advent Calendar, purchased at my local Costco here in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia in October 2020, sampled on 21-December-2020.