Vintage Gruit
Gruthaus-Brauerei

Pours an entirely hazed yellow color, with a spotted lacing on top of the glass.

Smells pretty unique, of a well rounded spice profile, leading with cinnamon, clove, dried garden herbs, sage, savory, and orange zest. This first impression on the nose gets enhanced by sugared white bread dough and hints of passion fruit.

Has a lower, fitting carbonation level with a sparkling finish, highlighting the lighter, tart body of the beer very well.

Tastes of flour, light cinnamon bark and orange pulp, together with dried grass and herbal lavender. This strange, but well working flavor profile gets tied together by a profound tartness, which adds lime zest, blue cheese and a good amount of mold, giving the beer a matured impression. Finishes unforseen light: after a refreshing carbonation burst, the beer provides a calm finale, defined by bread dough, oranges zingy lemon peel.

This offers a fantastic depth, which definitely reaches into lambic territory, with a convincing interplay of funk, fruits and spices.