Tag: Schofferhofer

Beer 3/9/16

Schofferhofer- Grapefruit Wheat Beer Radler

Petrus – Blond Belgian Pale Ale

Petrus – Dubbel Bruin

Sierra Nevada – Hop Hunter IPA

Sierra Nevada – Torpedo Extra IPA

The Grapefruit Radler was almost lollywater. 2.5 percent , extremely easy drinking, a light grapefruit bitterness and smell. Its a weird one, its not bad but…yeah. If you want a session grapefruit “drink” this may be it.

The Petrus Blond is a weird one, I was expecting something lighter. Its more amber, with a good caramel malty taste, a bit of alcohol present too. Candy malt/syrup I think is what does it? Nice moderate bitterness from hops. Smells “Belgian” if thats a thing, a good malty citrus aroma.

Petrus Dubbel Bruin has a lighter alcohol/candy thing taste than the Blond, and far less smell, still has a light nice fig, dried date, slightly spiced smell thing going on though. The taste is so so, though. Its there, then its gone. Malty, a short sharp hope of what you smell, but thats it.

The Hop Hunter, no idea when this was bottled, cant find a date stamp. I’ve had this before, its Hoppy, but unless its super fresh as hell can I really say how this is much better than many big IPA’s?  Still has that weird corner of the lip burn.

Torpedo…nothing to say, the beer that made me go FUCKING HELL and get into craft beer and know the potential of hops. Its still good.

 

Beers – 1/9/16

Cheeky Monkey – Travelling Monk Session Red Ale

Schofferhofer – Hefeweizen

Badger Brewing – Tangle Foot English Pale Ale

The Cheeky Monkey has a really nice bitterness that I dont think is all hops, and Im guessing the chocolate wheat and golden naked oats somehow add to that. The other maybe the Bravo hops – meant to be spicy – but Im unsure if I have encountered them before.  Low alcohol [3.5 percent] and the nice bitterness make it very drinkable.

The Hefe was  nice, an initial banana smell and taste, a spicyness with a nice refreshing citrus afterwards, not too spicy, but its there. This was well prices and definitely a beer I will buy again for casual drinking.

The Tangle Foot has a very nice sweet malty taste to it, caramel like, reminds me of chewing on some caraamber malt. Light fruity smell. It has a fair amount of  bitterness to it, not too much, which is good with the lower carbonation. Its rather abrupt in taste, you sip it, taste it all and then it ends with a slight bitterness and sweetness left, no real lingering aftertaste. Its not bad.