Tasting beer during the EBBC2016
was a kind of speedy dating. Not much time and a lot of effort to keep up with
your colleagues (and still remember whether the beer was good and how does it
smell/taste. Some beers here were tasted in the main session and some during “share
a beer” event.
Therefore, for a speed tasting I
have decided to write about it in a form of speed reviewing. Probably closer to
form normally used by “ratebeer” than by the blog.
1, 2, 3… START
Stout 8
Brewed: Brouverij Maximus, Netherlands
Black beer with creamy chocolate-colored
head. Clear chocolate and some herbal notes in the nose. Taste of roasted
chocolate, toffee and some fruits. Great bitter finish. Medium body, low to
average carbonation. Very elegant and very tasty. If you like stouts go for it!
Us Heit Isala Barleywine Barrel Aged
Brewed: Friese Bierbrouverij, Netherlands
Very complex beer, very true to its style. Pours dark brown.
Heavy scent of candy sweet, vanilla and oak. Tastes even more like a
combination of heavy candy, vanilla and lots of woody barrel notes. Thankfully,
body is not to heavy, otherwise would be not drinkable. That way it’s a great
desert beer, maybe a step or two from greatness.
Weird Beard Saison 28
Brewed: Weird Beard, UK
Golden dark beer, decent white
head. Great aroma of hops, dill, citrus and some caramel. Smells more like
papaya, pepper and clear herbal bitterness. Amazing. In fact, the best beer I
have tested here. I was ready to steal the rests in the bottle from the table
and disappear.
Harvey’s Elizabethan Ale
Brewed: Harveys, UK
When tasting your bottle of the Elizabethan Ale, please
consider that the one we had was 12 years old. That was the first time, I have
considered that this is not drinking but eating a beer. Very thick, dark
orange, totally still beer. Very spicy in aroma and taste. Resembles more a
high class sherry than ale. Certainly an exceptional experience, but nit
everyday thing.
Weird Beard
Sadako
Brewed: Weird Beard, UK
Second Weird Beard brew in the line. Pitch black Imperial Stout that
smells of roasted malts coffee, maybe tobacco. Taste of licorice, roasted
coffee. Medium carbonation, bitter finish. Great!
Plan 9 from outer space
Brewed: Oersoep, Netherlands
So its pilsner. Or maybe rather Zwickl/Kellerbier, since its unfiltered? This or that way: very pleasant surprise. Easy tasting, no bad surprise pils style beer. May not take the world by storm but it is still better than the majority of concern-made pils.
