Green
Beerfest-vn
- From:
- Beerfest-vn
- Vietnam
- Style:
- Herb and Spice Beer
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 1.99 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 13, 2016
- Added:
- Jul 13, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
1.99/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2
1.99/5 rDev 0%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1.75 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2
.3L krug on-draught @ the brewpub in Nha Trang. Cost was 35000 VND (substantially cheaper than Louisiane up the road).
4.50% beer (probably lager) brewed with seaweed extract.
APPEARANCE: Pale green body, resembling something from a sci-fi film. Head is off-white, but dissipates within 30 seconds leaving no lacing. Clear and clean; obviously filtered.
AROMA: Odd herbal character - seaweed, sure. Salt/brine. Neutral malts. Clean attenuation and the absence of any ale yeast redolent esters indicate lager yeast utilization.
Aromatic intensity is below average.
I wouldn't describe it as inviting, but it's not the dreadful seaweed aroma one might fear would be the case.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Brine and seaweed thrown in with some neutral insipid malts (likely cheap pilsner malt)/x-row barley malt. Grassy, I guess, evoking day-old lawn clippings (or at least what I imagine they taste like). It's a little better than that makes it sound, but still imbalanced, gimmicky, and odd.
Overcarbonated, smooth, wet, unrefreshing, light-bodied, crisp.
OVERALL: I have no objections to using seaweed in beer (and this isn't the first seaweed beer I've tried), but this just isn't enjoyable. Maybe a more competent brewery like Hitachino Nest could execute this premise well, but this beer just isn't there. I'm at a loss for how to recommend improvement on the existing recipe - maybe source fresh seaweed instead of extract, and use some amber malt to give this a deeper malt backbone and sweetness to contend with that briney character?
High D- (1.99) / AVOID
Jul 13, 20164.50% beer (probably lager) brewed with seaweed extract.
APPEARANCE: Pale green body, resembling something from a sci-fi film. Head is off-white, but dissipates within 30 seconds leaving no lacing. Clear and clean; obviously filtered.
AROMA: Odd herbal character - seaweed, sure. Salt/brine. Neutral malts. Clean attenuation and the absence of any ale yeast redolent esters indicate lager yeast utilization.
Aromatic intensity is below average.
I wouldn't describe it as inviting, but it's not the dreadful seaweed aroma one might fear would be the case.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Brine and seaweed thrown in with some neutral insipid malts (likely cheap pilsner malt)/x-row barley malt. Grassy, I guess, evoking day-old lawn clippings (or at least what I imagine they taste like). It's a little better than that makes it sound, but still imbalanced, gimmicky, and odd.
Overcarbonated, smooth, wet, unrefreshing, light-bodied, crisp.
OVERALL: I have no objections to using seaweed in beer (and this isn't the first seaweed beer I've tried), but this just isn't enjoyable. Maybe a more competent brewery like Hitachino Nest could execute this premise well, but this beer just isn't there. I'm at a loss for how to recommend improvement on the existing recipe - maybe source fresh seaweed instead of extract, and use some amber malt to give this a deeper malt backbone and sweetness to contend with that briney character?
High D- (1.99) / AVOID
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