Fruit Face With Green Tea, Tangerine & Lemongrass
Mikkeller ApS
- From:
- Mikkeller ApS
- Denmark
- Style:
- Fruited Sour Ale
- ABV:
- 4%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.69 | pDev: 10.03%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Sep 04, 2017
- Added:
- May 02, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by AgentMunky from New York
3.72/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.72/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Poured from a 16 ounce can into a Teku glass.
3.75/3/4/3.75/4
A: Hazy, murky, bubbly orange with brief head.
S: Flat yeast and light funk.
T: Wonderful! Mostly tart, with a funky dry endtaste. Fruity, drinkable, and puckery only upfront. I'm getting apricot (or peach fuzz) and a lovely mimosa sense. Unfortunately, this disappears along with the tang. Come to think of it, this has a lot in common with Tang. Or Emergen-C. I'm not totally opposed to that, but it's a bit odd in a beer. After the stonefruit mimosa, the best part is the robust yeasty flavor on the end.
M: 4.5 for the beginning, ~
May 17, 20173.75/3/4/3.75/4
A: Hazy, murky, bubbly orange with brief head.
S: Flat yeast and light funk.
T: Wonderful! Mostly tart, with a funky dry endtaste. Fruity, drinkable, and puckery only upfront. I'm getting apricot (or peach fuzz) and a lovely mimosa sense. Unfortunately, this disappears along with the tang. Come to think of it, this has a lot in common with Tang. Or Emergen-C. I'm not totally opposed to that, but it's a bit odd in a beer. After the stonefruit mimosa, the best part is the robust yeasty flavor on the end.
M: 4.5 for the beginning, ~
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3/5 rDev -18.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3/5 rDev -18.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
CAN: Silver colour with a green, orange, and white paper label. 16 fl oz format. Pull-tab. Purchased as part of a 4 pack at a Whole Paycheck in Manhattan for $13.99. Brewed & canned by Mikkeller SD.
"Berliner style weisse beer [sic] brewed with green tea, tangerine, and lemongrass." 4% ABV.
Served chilled into a nonic pint.
HEAD: Pours almost entirely foam when poured gently, indicating potential overcarbonation. Off-white in colour, frothy, and quickly receding, losing half its height within 30 seconds and dying entirely inside a minute. Fizzy, thin, and weak. Leaves no lacing on the sides of the glass as it recedes.
BODY: Hazy dull nontransparent orange. No yeast/lees are visible within.
Not a great appearance for a Berliner weissbier, but generally appealing in spite of its brief head and murky body.
AROMA: Smacky lactobacillus sourness and twang is obvious, suggesting an acidic brew of moderate sourness (~5/10). Lemongrass, citrus (bending more towards blood orange than tangerine), wheat, pils/helles malt. I don't find the green tea at all, but I'm hoping it comes through in the taste given how unique that would be in a beer of this style.
Aromatic intensity is average. Suggests a straightforward Berliner weissbier with more intense sourness than you'd find in most expressions of the style. Unfortunately, the ingredients it's advertised as having been brewed with aren't too vivid or noticeable aromatically, which is a shame given how interesting the premise of this beer seemed.
TASTE: More fruity than the aroma suggested, bringing the tropical tangerine flesh but no concomitant tartness or acidity. Lactic acid eclipses any citric acid. Sourness is moderate (coming in at a ~5/10 in terms of intensity) but nevertheless more intense than one usually finds in a Berliner weissbier. I search for green tea, and I think I can convince myself there's a blip of it in the mid second act, but it's so barely there at all I'm left wondering if it's just the power of suggestion and that's all in my head.
Lemongrass isn't vivid or expressive in this build either, leaving me disappointed the beer doesn't deliver on its premise. Call me crazy, but one hopes a green tea/lemongrass beer will taste like green tea and lemongrass. In that sense, it's a failure, but it's decent as a Berliner weissbier in general.
Balance could be more dialed in and I'd like more tartness and more vivid fruit. Depth of flavour is average at best. Flavour duration is average as well, but flavour intensity is actually low in spite of its above average sourness for the style.
TEXTURE: Should be more acidic and smacky, Thin, weak, soft, medium-bodied, overcarbonated, fizzy...this beer has a poor overall presence on the palate. Maybe using a more tart acidic fruit (like blood orange) would help.
Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, harsh, or scratchy.
OVERALL: The beer doesn't deliver fully on its premise, and disappoints as a result. A coffee stout needs noticeable coffee, a vanilla porter needs noticeable vanilla, a rauchbier needs noticeable smoke, and a green tea/lemongrass beer needs green tea and lemongrass. Even disregarding the brewers' aims, it still falls well short within its style, lagging laps behind style paragons from breweries like Bear Republic, let alone German expressions of the style that aren't tainted by fruit syrup (Vagabund's stab at the style comes to mind, even though it's a German brewery operated by Americans). I hoped for better from Mikkeller; this isn't a brew I'd buy again. Decent, but I couldn't recommend it to others.
High C (3.00) / AVERAGE
May 02, 2017"Berliner style weisse beer [sic] brewed with green tea, tangerine, and lemongrass." 4% ABV.
Served chilled into a nonic pint.
HEAD: Pours almost entirely foam when poured gently, indicating potential overcarbonation. Off-white in colour, frothy, and quickly receding, losing half its height within 30 seconds and dying entirely inside a minute. Fizzy, thin, and weak. Leaves no lacing on the sides of the glass as it recedes.
BODY: Hazy dull nontransparent orange. No yeast/lees are visible within.
Not a great appearance for a Berliner weissbier, but generally appealing in spite of its brief head and murky body.
AROMA: Smacky lactobacillus sourness and twang is obvious, suggesting an acidic brew of moderate sourness (~5/10). Lemongrass, citrus (bending more towards blood orange than tangerine), wheat, pils/helles malt. I don't find the green tea at all, but I'm hoping it comes through in the taste given how unique that would be in a beer of this style.
Aromatic intensity is average. Suggests a straightforward Berliner weissbier with more intense sourness than you'd find in most expressions of the style. Unfortunately, the ingredients it's advertised as having been brewed with aren't too vivid or noticeable aromatically, which is a shame given how interesting the premise of this beer seemed.
TASTE: More fruity than the aroma suggested, bringing the tropical tangerine flesh but no concomitant tartness or acidity. Lactic acid eclipses any citric acid. Sourness is moderate (coming in at a ~5/10 in terms of intensity) but nevertheless more intense than one usually finds in a Berliner weissbier. I search for green tea, and I think I can convince myself there's a blip of it in the mid second act, but it's so barely there at all I'm left wondering if it's just the power of suggestion and that's all in my head.
Lemongrass isn't vivid or expressive in this build either, leaving me disappointed the beer doesn't deliver on its premise. Call me crazy, but one hopes a green tea/lemongrass beer will taste like green tea and lemongrass. In that sense, it's a failure, but it's decent as a Berliner weissbier in general.
Balance could be more dialed in and I'd like more tartness and more vivid fruit. Depth of flavour is average at best. Flavour duration is average as well, but flavour intensity is actually low in spite of its above average sourness for the style.
TEXTURE: Should be more acidic and smacky, Thin, weak, soft, medium-bodied, overcarbonated, fizzy...this beer has a poor overall presence on the palate. Maybe using a more tart acidic fruit (like blood orange) would help.
Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, harsh, or scratchy.
OVERALL: The beer doesn't deliver fully on its premise, and disappoints as a result. A coffee stout needs noticeable coffee, a vanilla porter needs noticeable vanilla, a rauchbier needs noticeable smoke, and a green tea/lemongrass beer needs green tea and lemongrass. Even disregarding the brewers' aims, it still falls well short within its style, lagging laps behind style paragons from breweries like Bear Republic, let alone German expressions of the style that aren't tainted by fruit syrup (Vagabund's stab at the style comes to mind, even though it's a German brewery operated by Americans). I hoped for better from Mikkeller; this isn't a brew I'd buy again. Decent, but I couldn't recommend it to others.
High C (3.00) / AVERAGE
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