Pours an extraordinarily pale yellow colour, with just a bit of haziness to it. Average sized white head, quite good retention and nice lacing. Aroma: citric sourness upfront with lemonish notes, a touch of herbal/grassy freshness and maybe a hint of saltiness, suggesting a moderately sour, refreshing beer; not rich though, in terms of both complexity and intensity. Taste: minimal, pretty neutral maltiness (maybe just a grainy hint), sourness indeed moderate and mainly citric with perhaps a lactic hint. Very light saltiness. Hoppier than usual per style with a refreshing herbal feel and maybe even a hint of floral hops. A delicate but pleasantly refreshing taste on the whole. Light body, average, delicately crispy carbonation; very much an easy drinker for a sour, perhaps even a little too quick. Overall: much less sour and delicately hoppier than a standard berliner. Fine as a refresher, but not much more than that.

Dark amber coloured beer, quite transparent. Gets about one finger of head, good enough retention and some lacing. Not too much intensity in the aroma: jam like orange notes and maybe stone fruit notes on a delicate caramel malts base, maybe with just a hint of nuttiness. Taste also shows some dry floral hoppiness and maybe just a hint of earthiness. Ok in terms of intensity, okayish in terms of definition. There's a bit of dry bitter counterpart, but the beer still leans towards sweetness, perhaps a bit too much. Light body, definitely feels like just 3.5%, very light carbonation too; feels very smooth as mandatory with just the slightest bit of softness. A pretty classic version of the style, very much ok but fell short of seriously good to me.

Paleish golden with a bit of haziness to it. Average sized white head, shows good retention and some lacing. A not too intense but pleasantly fresh aroma, with a half herbal/half balsamic feel accompanied by citric notes (lemon most clearly detectable). A bit of malty sweetness in the back, can't detect something specific though. Maybe the slightest hint of prickliness/spiciness to the aroma as well. As for the aroma, the taste is moderately intense but nicely refreshing. Some delicate sweet malty foundation, kind of just a feeling more than actual flavours. I don't really know how birch should turn out, but in this it comes as something halfway between refreshingly herbal and balsamic, with what i can't describe better than some sort of delicate woody sweetness on the back of things. Citric notes are a significant component too, as the aroma suggested, and there's indeed a hint of prickliness. Perhaps the slightest bit of sourness to complement a sweetish mouthfeel; sweetish but still refreshing, with a dry enough feeling in both taste and aftertaste. Light body, carbonation is about average and delicately crispy; drinks more or less as easily as expected for the abv. Overall: turned out as a beer that fits well with this scorching summer; a slightly unorthodox refreshing lager, not very intense or complex but well made.

Deep, slightly bright orange; pretty hazy, a bit too much for an english ipa. Average sized white head, shows good enough retention but scarce lacing. Average intensity in the aroma with sweet leaning fruity notes (orange and tangerine, with a jam-like feel to them) and a floral, slightly herbal hoppiness over a delicate, softish, slightly biscuity maltiness. Taste notes more or less follow the aroma: softish malty base, again with a very delicate biscuity touch, dry floral notes with a touch of herbal presence, taking a slight edge over fruity notes, which are now less prominent than in the aroma. Maybe an earthy hint in finish/aftertaste. As for sweetness/bitterness: balanced in the mouth, a delicate bitter edge in a quite dry finish/aftertaste. Light to medium body, light to average very fine/delicate bubbled carbonation, resulting in an easy mouthfeel with some of the plush feeling that is typical of modern leaning ipas. Overall: a classic english ipa in terms of taste profile, not entirely in terms of body/mouthfeel; all in all quite fine.

Deep golden with the slightest orange hints, a bit of haziness but still mostly transparent. Medium sized white head, shows pretty good retention but close to no lacing. Averagely intense, well refined aroma, with grainy/hay notes followed by a delicate sweetness (touch of honey for certain, maybe chamomile) and balanced by fresh enough grassy notes. May sound like nothing special by description, and it's indeed a quite simple aroma profile, but it feels very well integrated and both delicately sweet and fresh. Taste notes as per aroma, with a pleasantly fragrant grainy/crackery feel. Perhaps just slightly less bright than the aroma suggested, but still excellent in terms of balance, where sweetness and bitterness are both quite vivid per style and in excellent balance in taste and aftertaste. As for the aroma, the beer feels at the same time soft and quite refreshing: i'd say it falls somewhere between an export helles and a keller. Light to medium body, slightly below average, delicate carbonation; excellent drinkability, decently vivid and at the same time pleasantly soft. Very, very nice.