Honeydew Melon Beer
North Taiwan Brewing
- From:
- North Taiwan Brewing
- Taiwan
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.89 | pDev: 9.34%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Dec 06, 2013
- Added:
- Dec 20, 2009
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
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Reviewed by wl0307 from England
2.81/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.81/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
Bottle-conditioned in a 330ml brown bottle, bottled on 15/10/2009, BB 15/10/2010, served lightly chilled in straight pint glass. NOTE: the ingredients include barley malt, wheat malt, hops and honeydew-melon juice extract (not REAL juice, then).
A: murky dark orangey in colour, coming with lively streams of fine carbonation and an off-white foamy head that sustains well throughout the drink.
S: extremely intense and sweet ripe honeydew melon takes the lead, laced with a lesser aroma of banana esters, wheat malts, sour-ish notes of lactose drink, and estery notes as of sweetened soy-bean water. The sweet edge should've been lighter if the aroma was to aim at some balance, as over here it's simply overwhelmingly cloying and thus the honeydew melon's supposedly nice aroma is mercilessly neutralized.
T: a highly fizzy swallow of mild honeydew melon juice and sour-sweet sugar leads slowly towards an aftertaste where traces of cane sugar, flowery esters, lactose drink (like Yakult) and sweetened soy bean-soaked water are left behind. The finish sees lingering sour-sweet taste exactly like that one would experience after eating pears or melons, while no sign of hops or more pronounced flavour of wheat malts is at presence. Overall, the flavour is more acceptable than the super cloying aroma, that a vague balance is reached b/w the fruitiness and everything else.
M&D: overly fizzy comes the carbonation (I seriously can't believe this is a bottle-conditioned beer), the body is light but not too thin for a 4%abv. beer, but it is the one-dimensional sweetness that spoils everything. IMO, this beer uses honeydew melon juice extract to the detriment of a desirable fruity profile, yet I suspect a very sweet fruit like honeydew melon would be very difficult to control in brewing, anyway? Like the same brewery's Lichie Beer, this melony experiment only manages to prove that there's still a long way to go before a balanced fruit beer can be made out of much sweeter fruits like lychees and melons, hence a lower-than-average drinkability all in all.
Dec 20, 2009A: murky dark orangey in colour, coming with lively streams of fine carbonation and an off-white foamy head that sustains well throughout the drink.
S: extremely intense and sweet ripe honeydew melon takes the lead, laced with a lesser aroma of banana esters, wheat malts, sour-ish notes of lactose drink, and estery notes as of sweetened soy-bean water. The sweet edge should've been lighter if the aroma was to aim at some balance, as over here it's simply overwhelmingly cloying and thus the honeydew melon's supposedly nice aroma is mercilessly neutralized.
T: a highly fizzy swallow of mild honeydew melon juice and sour-sweet sugar leads slowly towards an aftertaste where traces of cane sugar, flowery esters, lactose drink (like Yakult) and sweetened soy bean-soaked water are left behind. The finish sees lingering sour-sweet taste exactly like that one would experience after eating pears or melons, while no sign of hops or more pronounced flavour of wheat malts is at presence. Overall, the flavour is more acceptable than the super cloying aroma, that a vague balance is reached b/w the fruitiness and everything else.
M&D: overly fizzy comes the carbonation (I seriously can't believe this is a bottle-conditioned beer), the body is light but not too thin for a 4%abv. beer, but it is the one-dimensional sweetness that spoils everything. IMO, this beer uses honeydew melon juice extract to the detriment of a desirable fruity profile, yet I suspect a very sweet fruit like honeydew melon would be very difficult to control in brewing, anyway? Like the same brewery's Lichie Beer, this melony experiment only manages to prove that there's still a long way to go before a balanced fruit beer can be made out of much sweeter fruits like lychees and melons, hence a lower-than-average drinkability all in all.
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