Champignon Ale
Brasserie Rancho El Paso

Beer Geek Stats
From:
Brasserie Rancho El Paso
 
Japan
Style:
Fruit and Field Beer
ABV:
5%
Score:
+8 ratings needed
Avg:
3.53 | pDev: 5.38%
Ratings:
2 | reviews: 2
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Jul 03, 2004
Added:
Jun 18, 2004
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by donnebaby from North Carolina

3.72/5  rDev +5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
90% clear gold color with an active body that supports a thin cream head. Nose is wide and creamy, a crispness of lightly sweet malts sunk in cream.

Taste is light to medium body malts that aren't sweet at all, nor grainy either. As it warms a slight fruitness evolves. Carbonation is exceedingly soft and fades after an initial push on the tongue. Aftertaste pinches in a dry bitterness of hops but then develops out into soft and creamy earth and sticks.

This beer utilizes "enoki" mushrooms as well as beet juice. Very drinkable and interesting, if not totally amazing.
Jul 03, 2004
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Reviewed by tjd25 from France

3.34/5  rDev -5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
All of the El Paso beers use naturally carbonated water.

This beer is brewed using a small white mushroon called enoki. The head is long lasting and close to perfection, so fine and dense. It was hard to pick up anything from the smell. The taste is interesting, mushroom is barely noticeable, some hints of salted food. Citric, almost some tart. The mouthfeel is very smooth, with a very grassy bitter hoppiness that appears after a few seconds. Hops also have nice fruity notes, mostly of grapefruit. A nice beer by a creative brewpub.
Jun 18, 2004