Tonight's beer: New Belgium/Brasserie Dieu de Ciel! Heavenly Feijoa
Lots of fruity impressions, skittering between sweet and tart and funky and musky. Some pale-bready caramel sweetness struggling forward, mostly getting smacked around by the fruit. There are hints of grassy-floral bitterness lurking in the background, but they're overwhelmed by the funky-tart-sweet fruit. There are white grapes, pears, apples, peaches; but the dominant fruity character is this funky, almost musky tropical ... noun. Definitely a noun.
A little on the syrupy side of medium-bodied, a little bit sticky but decently carbonated. Not a ton of alcohol presence, a bit drying and surprisingly refreshing for 9% ABV.
I don't know what feijoa is, but if it's really the dominant flavor of this beer, I never want to taste it again. It tastes like one of the pungent tropical/exotic fruits I can't stand to be in the same room as, if someone else is eating one. It's not as though this it technically a mistake—I have little doubt this is that the brewers wanted the beer to taste like. It's just not something I ever want to drink again. Not really balanced—there's a lot of fruit here—but plenty intense—there's a lot of fruit here. Too dominated by the fruit to muster complex or integrated, either. Probably the first really disappointing beer I've had that either brewery has been associated with. Oh comma well.
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| New Belgium/Brasserie Dieu de Ciel! Heavenly Feijoa |
Lots of fruity impressions, skittering between sweet and tart and funky and musky. Some pale-bready caramel sweetness struggling forward, mostly getting smacked around by the fruit. There are hints of grassy-floral bitterness lurking in the background, but they're overwhelmed by the funky-tart-sweet fruit. There are white grapes, pears, apples, peaches; but the dominant fruity character is this funky, almost musky tropical ... noun. Definitely a noun.
A little on the syrupy side of medium-bodied, a little bit sticky but decently carbonated. Not a ton of alcohol presence, a bit drying and surprisingly refreshing for 9% ABV.
I don't know what feijoa is, but if it's really the dominant flavor of this beer, I never want to taste it again. It tastes like one of the pungent tropical/exotic fruits I can't stand to be in the same room as, if someone else is eating one. It's not as though this it technically a mistake—I have little doubt this is that the brewers wanted the beer to taste like. It's just not something I ever want to drink again. Not really balanced—there's a lot of fruit here—but plenty intense—there's a lot of fruit here. Too dominated by the fruit to muster complex or integrated, either. Probably the first really disappointing beer I've had that either brewery has been associated with. Oh comma well.
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