Tonight's beer: Ommegang Aphrodite
Smells like fruits, mainly raspberries and pears, with some hints of funk, bread, grass, and spice.
Taste is tarter and drier than the smell implied, but still fruits are top, front, and center. Raspberries and pears, obviously, but grapes, apples, cherries, and plums also linger around the perimeter. Some funk on the back end, ans the flavor dries out. Peppery-spicy impressions hanging around. A little bready sweetness hiding out in the center, maybe.
The beer is light- bodied, and pretty well-carbonated, with the barest hint of a boozy prickle. Drying, but very refreshing. A bit of tartness-puckering on the finish, but very clean and cleansing on the palate.
An interesting, Champagne-like beer. Very drinkable, with roughly zero hint of its 8.9% ABV. A very experimental beer from Ommegang, and I'd be inclined to call it a successful one. Kinda like a saison, with raspberry and pear syrups, and grains of paradise
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| Ommegang Aphrodite |
Smells like fruits, mainly raspberries and pears, with some hints of funk, bread, grass, and spice.
Taste is tarter and drier than the smell implied, but still fruits are top, front, and center. Raspberries and pears, obviously, but grapes, apples, cherries, and plums also linger around the perimeter. Some funk on the back end, ans the flavor dries out. Peppery-spicy impressions hanging around. A little bready sweetness hiding out in the center, maybe.
The beer is light- bodied, and pretty well-carbonated, with the barest hint of a boozy prickle. Drying, but very refreshing. A bit of tartness-puckering on the finish, but very clean and cleansing on the palate.
An interesting, Champagne-like beer. Very drinkable, with roughly zero hint of its 8.9% ABV. A very experimental beer from Ommegang, and I'd be inclined to call it a successful one. Kinda like a saison, with raspberry and pear syrups, and grains of paradise
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