Nice sweet fresh aroma. Mild hoppiness, very smooth. Beer almost reminds me of a dry Belgian style. Nice mild flavor, almost milky. My beer #100 since I started tracking my ratings.
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
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Detroit Brewing Company Alt Beer
Slight faint aroma with a mild grain smell. Sweet flavor with a slight harshness. A bit too harsh for me. Has definite flavors like the Alts, but a bit too harsh, then fares into a slight sweetness. Very little aftertaste.
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
Schmaltz Hebrew Bittersweet Lenny’s R.I.P.A.
Slightly sweet, heavy aroma. Initial taste similar with a bit of hop flavor hidden amongst a very strong and sweet malt flavor. Finishes malty and sweet.
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
Brewery De Ranke XX Bitter
Smells like a wet dog. No really. Not super strong, but if I had to describe it, that’s what it smells like. Taste was a bit abrupt with some bubbly feel on the mouth with a nice hoppy fade out in taste. Kind of like a cross between an IPA and a champagne. Best drank holding your breath so you don’t suck in a whiff of dog and instead just get the hoppy aftertaste. Beer was best before the end of Jan 2016, and I had it in Jun 2012, so I guess it was maybe still young…
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
Guinness Black Lager
Nice rich malty aroma. Full flavored, but light and almost refreshing at the same time. Finishes with a moderate dark malt flavor with a hint of hops.
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
Brasserie Lefebvre Hopus
No real aroma. Nice full flavored mild malt with a hint of sweetness. Finishes with a nice moderate flavor with hints of hops. Pretty decent, but not too much to get excited about.
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
Brewery Dilewyns Vicaris Generaal
Moderate sweet smell. Moderate even sweet taste with a hint of hops and fruit. A bit of carbonation then fades off from sweetness.
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
St. Benedictus Abbey Achel Bruin
Moderate sweet smell. Very sweet taste with a slight hint of hop bite, but quickly overtaken by a fruit sweetness. Taste kind of wrestles between those 2 flavors for a while, neither one really losing. A confusion of sweet and dry.
More red in color than my phone gives it credit for.
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
John Martin Douglas Celtic Cider
Practically no aroma. Taste is a full mouthful of sweetness, but not overwhelming or too sweet. Almost tastes exactly like biting into a delicious apple. The only giveaway that it’s not is a slightly sweet aftertaste. At which point it switches over to kind of tasting like a nice dry apple cider. Hmmm, I wonder if that’s why they call it cider…
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
Guinness
No aroma- the thick frothy head probably acts like an odor barrier. Maybe faint sweet hints of smell. Hits palette pretty evenly without a real strong flavor other than a moderate malt taste. Finishes creamy smooth then a dark malt taste sneaks in and proceeds to fade out slowly, then left with no taste.
Had on tap in Irish pub in Belgium. Seemed to have proper/good nitro dispensing for a nice pour, but no carbonation.
3.5 out of 5 Stars.
