Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
50cl bottle pours with a murky amber body that has some copper hues and supports a thin tan head. The aroma offers up a tart wine like note and spicy smelling wood with grape juice and cranberry juice fruitiness off in the background. The taste begins with modest tart like wine notes blended into a thin spike of spicy wood, faint sweet vanilla and then sweeter smooth juicy berry flavors. Decent. It could provide less wine like tartness and spicy woody barrel notes where I seem to be getting a Brett like sensation as it warms.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 2014, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Wanderlust Chateau Americana ].Clear medium amber yellow color with a small to average, open and fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, nutty, fruity. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to light light heavy bitter with a long duration, dry, nuty bitter, caramel notes, yeast notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20140812]
yespr (55501) reviewed Chateau Americana from Wanderlust Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
From cask. Pours hazy orange with a small off white head. Aroma is fruity, grapefruity and solid peachy. Herbal, grapefruity and toasted malty. Bitter and crisp hoppy into a smooth fruity finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Cask gravity @ GBBF 2014. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty weak hoppy aroma. Fruity malty spicy yeasty weak hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty spicy yeasty weak hoppy finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Draft at the Great British Beer Festival 2014, Day 1 - London. Pours clear, pale amber with a light foam head. Rich earthy hops combine with toasted grain, ripe orange and pine. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly resinous to finish with mild grapefruit and pine. Good one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12th August 2014
GBBF Day 1. Cask. Hazy amber beer, small pale cream colour head. Palate is light with fine carbonation, smooth. Says US hops but there is a very Nelson Sauvin like grapey floralness here, very nice it is to! Trace of tangerine. Light finish. Very pleasant!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Gravity dispense at GBBF ’14, day 1, 12/08/14. Clear golden with a moderate off white head. Nose carries Belgian yeast notes, hint of mango, mandarin, tangerine. Taste comprises candyfloss, nice Belgian yeast profile, papaya, straw. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, semi drying close. Tasty stuff.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Sampled @ GBBF. Cask. Clear orange color, small white head. Smell and taste lightly malts, decently hoppy, nicely fruity, pineapple and tropical fruits. Average body and carbonation.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the 2014 GBBF. Earthy pine, alcohol and touch of caramel some parfummed. Flavour is semi sweet, biscuit, parfummed spices,. Palate is light semi sweet, low carbonation. Very drinkable.