Recent Tasting Notes
t IJ Struis (11/20)
Should have been another cracking beer from what is now one of favourite producers. Visually stunning, as is common for the house. Perfectly formed medium sized head, offwhite in colour. Glowing orange with a dull red core. Served in a chablis / chardonnay wine, which by the way worked a treat. Sweet candied malts on the nose together with minerals and cinnamon. Flavours unfortunately let the beer down I suspect this one has a bad case of the ’skunks’. Some cinnamon and spice of the palate, but quite mild and disapates as the skunky notes kick in. The palate is surprisingly light for a 9% with the alcohol barely registering any presence. I’ll rate this purely for record keeping purposes but clearly a sound sample would rate near or above 4.0.
De Block Speciale 6 (11/20)
Weird. I was under the impression this was a crap Euro mega lager so when the beer poured a murky reddish orange and smelt like a fruity Rodenbach I was, understandably, confused. Aromas are quite good if a bit simple and sugary. Palate is unremarkable but not unpleasant; a very broad and ’flat’ flavour profile of funky malts early but these soon disappear to a macro / mainstream sweet, almost adjunct-like finish. I dunno, kind of ok but you’d never go back for a second.
Snowy Mountains Bullocks Pilsner (6/20)
Not real good. Pours like a thousand other industrial pale ales...is this really a pilsner. Muted, daggy malts. Ok,maybe a hint of bohem pilsner there. Tired and stale palate, again maybe just the faintest, fleeting nod to the malt character in Urquell but then falls to bits with a fizzy finish. I don’t know a thing about the folk at Snowy Mountains but I am repeatedly puzzled why crap like this is produced from so called micros. There are no shortage of large brewers making dross like this.
Should have been another cracking beer from what is now one of favourite producers. Visually stunning, as is common for the house. Perfectly formed medium sized head, offwhite in colour. Glowing orange with a dull red core. Served in a chablis / chardonnay wine, which by the way worked a treat. Sweet candied malts on the nose together with minerals and cinnamon. Flavours unfortunately let the beer down I suspect this one has a bad case of the ’skunks’. Some cinnamon and spice of the palate, but quite mild and disapates as the skunky notes kick in. The palate is surprisingly light for a 9% with the alcohol barely registering any presence. I’ll rate this purely for record keeping purposes but clearly a sound sample would rate near or above 4.0.
De Block Speciale 6 (11/20)
Weird. I was under the impression this was a crap Euro mega lager so when the beer poured a murky reddish orange and smelt like a fruity Rodenbach I was, understandably, confused. Aromas are quite good if a bit simple and sugary. Palate is unremarkable but not unpleasant; a very broad and ’flat’ flavour profile of funky malts early but these soon disappear to a macro / mainstream sweet, almost adjunct-like finish. I dunno, kind of ok but you’d never go back for a second.
Snowy Mountains Bullocks Pilsner (6/20)
Not real good. Pours like a thousand other industrial pale ales...is this really a pilsner. Muted, daggy malts. Ok,maybe a hint of bohem pilsner there. Tired and stale palate, again maybe just the faintest, fleeting nod to the malt character in Urquell but then falls to bits with a fizzy finish. I don’t know a thing about the folk at Snowy Mountains but I am repeatedly puzzled why crap like this is produced from so called micros. There are no shortage of large brewers making dross like this.
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