Brjánsi Nr.52
Borg Brugghús

330ml bottle - a lacto soured offering. No idea who this Brjánsi fellow is, however, and if this is really what he's meant to do.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat creamy eggshell white head, which leaves some broad, streaky lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.

It smells of bready and doughy cereal malt, some muddled generic fruitiness, spoiled milk, and some tame earthy, musty, and hay-like hop bitters. The taste is gritty and grainy pale malt, sour cream, some indistinct pome and citrus fruity notes, faint earthy yeast, and more understated leafy, herbal, and floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is adequate in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a swell time at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the tart fruit character predominating.

Overall - this is a pleasant enough version of the style, nice and crisp and easy to put back. Perhaps a tad simple, but that's not always a bad thing, per se. Worth checking out, despite the silly import craft beer shelf tag, which I'm getting pretty tired of.