Buenos Dias
Beau's All Natural Brewing Company

Serving: Bottle
Bottled: May-30-2018 (Consumed Feb-16)


A:
It pours a pretty hazy gold with a couple fingers of bone-white fluff. (3.75)

S:
Yeasty, bready-hefe-like (light sweet phenol clove) character with some lime zest. (3.5)

T:
Generally inoffensive and fairly refreshing with grainy beer-like taste and the lightest touch of tart/salt. (3.5)

M:
Dry, thin, fizzy. (3.75)

O:
Okay but nothing amazing.
It is a regreshung, light and slightly wacky assemblage of tea/herbal/potpourri hints and wheat/yeast. Ok and straightforward. (3.5)

 

Pretty ordinary stuff. A short head, minimal lace, pale hazy yellow. Lime citrus and grass on the nose. Very subdued flavour profile. Gentle lime and grain. Drinkable but subtle to the point of being anonymous.

Mistystraw with lighthead.Aroma grassy herbal. Flavour: Field berries, juniper, rosemary herbal.

Serving Type: 600 mL Bottle

L- Pours a very slightly hazy, bright yellow topped by a 1/4 finger fizzy white head that dissipates nearly instantly. As the head dissipates, a fizz similar to that of a soft drink can be heard.

S- Sea salt, lime juice, and citrus peel are very apparent in the aroma.

T- Light pale malts accented nicely with sea salt and a slight lime peel bitterness.

M- Moderate carbonation and medium body.

O- I can't say that I'm a fan of Gruits but I can say that I really enjoyed this beer. It's a refreshing mixture of pale malts, and a contrasting salty, citrus profile. Very unique and very good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A: The beer is hazy yellow in color. It poured with a short bright white head that died down, leaving wisps of bubbles on the surface and a narrow collar around the edge of the glass.
S: Light aromas of lime juice and sea salt are present in the nose along with hints of spices.
T: The taste has light flavors of malts along with notes of sea salt and hints of lime peels.
M: It feels a bit more than light-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer is very refreshing—with the salt it's almost like a gose in some ways (but not as sour).

Serving type: bottle

 

 

600 mL bottle from the LCBO; dated Mar 24 2017 and served slightly chilled.

This cloudy, translucent beer pours a muddled pale yellow colour, with one finger of loose, soapy white froth situated at the surface. It weakens and dissipates over the next minute or two, leaving behind a modest collar and an oily-looking layer of film. Not as fragrant as I was hoping, honestly - I'd expected a lot more citrus, and while there are definitely some muted notes of lime peel, lemon zest and orange, it's actually the grainy, wheaty pale malts that seem to comprise the bulk of the aroma. This is in addition to some subtle hints of spicy, floral hops and sea water.

This is a weird one - and I don't mean the flavour profile is weird, because it actually tastes fairly conventional - with a clean, grainy wheat malt backbone and some light cracker sweetness. I call it 'weird' because several of the focal ingredients - specifically, the lime juice/peel and orange peel - come through in such a diluted manner that I almost wonder why they bothered at all. The orange peel does penetrate through to the taste buds towards the back end, as well as a few faint, flitting suggestions of sour lime juice. The finish is bitter citrus oil, mildly floral hops and sea saltiness, with none of these flavours lingering on the palate for long. Off-dry aftertaste, with light-medium body and an oiliness to the texture that makes it feel a little slick on the tongue; the moderately crisp carbonation levels help to offset this feature, scrubbing the surface of the palate with each sip. Refreshing and quaffable.

Final Grade: 3.68, a serviceable B grade. Beau's Buenos Dias isn't bad, but I was continually disappointed by the muted presence of the citrus ingredients - why bother making a "gruit" with orange peel and lime juice if you're not going to use them in a high enough concentration for the citrus flavours to shine through? I'm not saying it needs to taste like orange extract (in fact, I'm glad it doesn't), but a bit more citrus juiciness would give the saltiness something of substance to integrate with. As others have noted, this is closer to a gose than a gruit - but regardless of what you want to call it, it's still kind of underwhelming. I doubt I'd pay $6 for another bottle without some tweaks to the recipe beforehand.

Appearance: Poured with a thumb of head that didn't lace but did stick around. The body has a steady carbonation inside it's rather cloudy yellow color, that seems to show very mild green highlights.

Smell: Very as expected, a citrus smell with lime being dominant with mild straw lager notes. Nothing else really to report here, it does a pretty bang up job of what it is, which is a predominantly citric brew.

Taste: It's not very offten where I find mild barley malt as the undertone through the entire beer. Usually hops, roasting or other flavours drown in out, but not the case here. Anyways, starts with a lime note that evolves into a more balanced citrus with a ending twang of barely noticable floral hops and a gose salt note.

Mouthfeel: Kinda disappointed that the citrus aftertaste doesn't really stick around at all. However carbonation that helps the entire beer, easy transistioning and a zesty crispiness to it earns points here. It has a dryness to it, but I wouldn't call it dry. More like a reigned in moistness if that makes sense. Given this brew has salt, I'm going to blame it as the cause, but by no means does it come across as salty. It's just different.

Drinkability: Light bodied, insanely easy to guzzle and although it doesn't quite quench the thirst as much as you like, it does have a "Must drink more" quality to it. That said, a bit more impact would be nice on this one.

Final Thoughts: This is what Bud Light Lime should be. This is the real, flavourful, easy to drink, hand crafted, ancient method means of making an ideal summer drinker. That said, I used ancient method fairly liberally here. As many others have pointed out, this drinks more like a citrus gose then a herbal gruit. That doesn't make it any less good though, and frankly is one of the reasons I love gruit beer. Seeing brewers using ingredients outside the box to make something unique and with a clear purpose and flavour of their own. Will certainly stock up on this if I see it again for the summer.

 

Appearance - Pours a slightly hazy ginger with a finger of bubbly white head that quickly recedes.

Smell - Citrus (lime, orange, lemon), wheat malts, mild earthy/leafy hops, sea salt, light yeast aromas.

Taste - Wheat malts and citrus fruit (particularly lime) shine through and nicely accented by the flavours of sea salt and yeast. Hops are minimal to non-existent.

Mouthfeel - Light-to-medium body with moderate carbonation. There's a refreshing crispness and dryness left by the sea salt.

Overall - A harmonious blend of flavours that lend to the unique gruit style. Lime and sea salt add a refreshing and almost summery characteristic to this brew. Another beauty from Beau's.

600ml bottle - both 'Buenos Dias', and 'gruit' just don't sound like something that might come out of an Ontari-ari-o brewery, eh? And what's the deal with any sort of hops being introduced to this particular style?

This beer pours a hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, creamy, and rocky off-white head, which leaves but a few instances of sparse island group lace around the glass as it quickly abates.

It smells of strong lemon/lime extract, salted margarita, grainy pale and wheaten malt, and some weak floral/herbal green hop bitterness. The taste is bready and doughy pale malt, a bit of tamely spicy wheatiness, mixed lemon, lime, and orange citrus measures, a lesser saltine cracker character, some weak earthy yeastiness, and a bit of leafy and floral, er, hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly fizzy in its minor and otherwise wan frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and mostly smooth, at least in terms of any margaritas that I've imbibed of late. It finishes trending dry, the initially heady citrus essences taking their collective foot off of the accelerator for the time being.

Overall, this one does well to pay homage to its south of the southern border moniker - yeah, it's very much like a basic bitch (beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelieve, me, I know) margarita, which I have absolutely no idea how it reconciles with the very old-school style implied here. Whatever, it's more like a fruity gose, than anything that druids, or the like, would have pounded the fuck back, I'm guessing.

Floral but not as much citrus as you'd expect. I found the salt to be very intense which was a bit off putting, especially when advertised as a Gruit and not a Gose. A bit oily. I drank it all easily.