Jeanette bought me a beer of the month club subscription for Xmas. She also has a food blog on here, http://ediblematerial.blogspot.com/, (shameless plug). These two things combined prompted this blooozeog (booze web log. might as well face it- the interweb is so culturally gay). This is one of the beers in my first batch, and an exciting one at that.
The accompanying pamphlet describes citrus notes on the nose. It describes honey, sweetbread, candied orange peel, and white grapes in the flavor, with a bitterness ultimately poking through in the aftertaste, with an overall caveat that this beer is definitely more sweet than hoppy.
My take: the description roughly fits the product. The citrus notes, both in the smell and taste,are prominent. Orange especially. The 'bitterness' it refers to, though, is really more of a sourness, like somewhere between Seattle and Warsaw, the shit went a little bad. Not real bad, mind you, just a little. And it exists on all levels save the smell- in other words, the taste and aftertaste both.
The potency is 7.8%, which is pretty nice.
When I was sober, I found myself wincing a bit as I drank, and glad for the beverage to be over so the next might begin. Last night, I gave it another chance, after other, stronger beers, somewhat tipsy, playing Rock Band teut de seul, and I really enjoyed it. I was also hungry. Make of that what you will, but I say this is a foreign drunkard's treat. It tastes like spaetzle and ludafisk and French buttermilk. I strive, but I'm not quite there. It's quite unique, and it gets laurels for that, but little else.
3 stars. The worst of the initial beer o' the month batch, but not bad despite.
this is the polish beer, right?
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