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March 2014: 330 ml bottle, Cardinal Pub & Bar, Stavanger. ABV is 6%. Hazy golden colour, moderate white head. Spicy and yeasty aroma and flavour, also strong notes of citrus and hops. Maybe a bit too far out on the yeasty side, but still very drinkable.

 

Yields a cloudy amber with a huge, stable head.

Smells of leaf wrapped peaches, lime pulp and light, crisp bread crust.

Has a light body to it with a rejuvenating, lively carbonation.

Tastes of lighter honey, a slice of lime and unripe banana. Gets maltier then, with a bready, earthy and herbal note, gently balanced by the initial hop flavors. Finishes with peppery yeast, more honey and riper turning banana among maintaing, herbal hops.

Solid, well balanced beer, which turns out a little too tamed after its first impression.

De Degustasur. 13 meses tras consumo preferente. En copa Teku. Jugando a Avernum 6. No desagarada pero algo plana, con sabor algo levaduroso. El tiempo no pasa en balde. Espuma perfecta, cremosa

 

 

 

Hazy golden color with white head. Aroma has some slightly dank hops with fruity notes. Taste starts with citrus fruits and grassy hops, medium bitterness from start to finish. Medium to light bodied, medium to light carbonation. Overall it's a quite nice, easy drinking hoppy ale.

 

 

330 ml bottle poured into a shaker pint glass. Very cloudy orange amber brew with three fingers of fluffy, sudsy white head.

Aroma of inviting citric and tropical hops ... gummy worms, honey, pineapple with a hint of coconut, maybe a whiff of vanilla. Sweet and gentle. The flavor is not.

On the palate, the aforementioned hops are quite aggressive ... Weedy, resinous, dare I say cannabis-like and "dank". Do not read this as a criticism. Underneath the green bitterness is some fresh tangerine and orange, honeyed cough candy, lychees, dilute caramel, and sultana raisins. The sweetness is very well-masked though. Described as a "wheaty cream ale" on the label, this is indeed pretty smooth and slick. Body on the light side but not adjunct light, with rather bold carbonation. Finishes quite dry with citrus rind and menthol lingering for a while.

Nicely done hop-heavy yeast-light American style wheat. Says its Belgian but I don't taste the tell-tale signs of Flemish yeast anywhere near this. Brewed in Belgium, sure. Anyhow, its tasty and has a unique charm.

 

 

 

 

 

330ml bottle. Hmmm...a Belgian wheat 'cream' beer, meant for colder times of the year, brought to we in the throes of the dead of summer. Works out in the end, I guess!

This beer pours a rather hazy, pale golden yellow colour, with three fat fingers of puffy, tightly foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some streaky, sudsy lace in parts around the glass as it slowly ebbs away.

It smells of sugary wheat grain, a twinge of caramel malt, soft earthy yeast, mild grapefruit and orange juice, real vanilla, and leafy, grassy hops. The taste is more gritty wheat malt, biscuity caramel, muddled orange, grapefruit, and lemon citrus rind, dried roots, a wee stony flintiness, and herbal, leafy hops.

The carbonation is fairly active, and even a tad prickly in its low-key frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and plainly smooth, nothing aiding, and nothing stalling, either. It finishes pretty dry, the wheat grain bottoming out, the yeast and fruit turning tail, and the hops happy to help out.

A decent hoppy wheat beer, which seems to be a growing trend, and maybe 'the' new beer thing for 2014, who the fuck knows. Anyways, the extra point of ABV is appreciated, and pleasantly sublimated to boot - I could have a few of these, on a summer patio, or, um, nah, come winter, this may provoke laughter at its attempt to seem worthy of hibernation warming status. Hard to see now, as I sweat from the atypical humidity in typing this, but the rules change come the approach of Noel.

Pours bright golden, bit hazy, frothy white head that pops away to some very sticky lacing.
Smell of tangerine, faint grapefruit and vanilla, grass, caramel and biscuits, perfectly balanced.
Taste starts with bitter citrus hops, also a bit sweet, with pomelo, lime, blood oranges and faint tangerines, all on top of biscuity malts with caramel and faint honey. Spicy with some prickly pepper and some aromatic herbs. Some pine and bitter grassy hops towards the finish, with a very "dry leafy" English finish and aftertaste, that for me ruins quite a bit of the flavours.
Medium body and carbonation.
This was nice, but i preffer Blossom, which was way more flavourful.