I've heard a lot of good things about Unibroue. I didn't know any of those things until after I had picked up a bottle from the store in Nashville a while back. Its been sitting for a while and I finally got around to cracking this baby open.
The beer poured a hazy straw color with about a finger and a half of head into a snifter glass. Light retention, no lacing aside from some film at the bottom. Fizzled out like a soda. The major aroma out of this beer is green apple. There's some lingering sourness that I can't quite pin, but it smells like a hard cider, with some subtle changes.
Now does it taste like a hard cider? No. The green apple taste shines through, but provides a wheat-like, bitter, and peppery finish at the end. Sounds like a pretty good combination, right..? I guess the theory sounds better than the execution. There was a dry finish to this and I was looking to get a little more malt balance. I also think that I'd rather not have the wheat taste in the beer. Overall, I had a hard time getting myself to finish this, primarily because it didn't do a good job of wowing me. Oh well, I'll keep trying some of Unibroue's offerings and chalk this one up as an aberration.
Grade: C-
Price Paid: $2.99 (12 oz bottle)
No comments:
Post a Comment