Bianca Blackberry Maple Pancake Lassi Gose
Omnipollo

Scent of maple on this is outstanding! Tastes of fresh blackberries pairs wonderfully with the lactose sugar and some warming maple. Honestly this is one of the best beers I've ever had. So drinkable, and easily a favorite for its complexity.

 

Seeing the classic German Gose turn to fruitiness, juiciness, smoothiness, but now breakfast? Now that's new. Omnipollo takes their Bianca Lassi Gose and loads it with dang near reckless additions of blackberries, maple syrup and lactose for a beer that's worth getting out of bed.

Bianca Blackberry Maple Pancake Lassi pours with a heady, pillowy froth that floats gently above a ominously grape juice looking body with a nearly still appearance. A peculiar yet seductive set of aromas are tart with citrus, wine and apple but also savory with doughy sweetnes and maple. Flavors of sourdough, saltwater taffy, berry glaze and maples syrup once again throw an absurdly sugary maltiness.

The juicy and heavy sweetness of the beer flows effortlessly on the middle palate and allows the fruit, pastry breadiness and the strong maple overtones easily dwarf any acidity in the beer and offer a wide array of dessert cobbler flavors. With an undercurrent of cider, white wine, crabapple, gooseberry and lime, the tartness adds balance while nuances of prune juice, tobacco and dried stone fruits add an earthy sweetness like fig jam, port and sherry wines. With savory sweetness is unwavering as the late taste offers only a tart semblance of balance.

Full, plush and lavish in texture, the beer is basically alcoholic jam as its sugars keep the mouth coated with vinous fruits, maple syrup and savory condensed blackberry. It might not be classic Gose; it might not even resemble beer. It might be a diabetic shock in a glass, but what's not arguable is that this thing is delicious!

Can from their Toronto contact brewer: Pours a clouded grape-red with a 2 finger pink cap...lush aromas of berry fruit, malts, spice and treacle...flavor is a wonderful complex amalgam of flavors, berry fruit, malts, earthy mustiness, maple, salty bittering... long dense finish where all the flavors break out more distinctly, and a lingering hoppy bitterness in the fruity after taste.....I really wanted to like this beer and I'm not a fruit beer lover...it was well put together, It has both Gose character and fruit...but it is too sweet for my palate

 

Bit of a gusher. Pours deep, dark purple, with pink foam. Smells super maple'y, sweet, synthetic. Very smooth, sticky mouthfeel, really thick. Taste is highly sweet, no sourness. Blackberries, if they say so, general candy fruit. Loads of maple. Damn good.

A 500ml can, with a best before date of 7th November 2020. Poured into a 3 Fonteinen stemmed glass.

Appearance: A deep dark purple colour with a one and a half finger purple head that had good retention and left lots of nice lacing.

Aroma: Sweet, lightly tart, blackberry, maple, vanilla and booze.

Taste: Sweet, lightly tart and sour, blackberry, maple, pancake, and vanilla.

Mouthfeel: Creamy, medium to full bodied with moderate carbonation.

Overall: Sweet but the light tartness mostly balanced that out. The booze in the aroma was not ideal, but I didn’t get it in the taste so that’s good.