Gallo, Cerveceria Centro Americana, Guatemala City, Guatemala – Gallo (meaning Rooster) offers a light yellow\straw appearance with a smallish white head. Aroma is grainy with a bit of malt and extremely low hops. Taste is of pale malt, cereal grains, corn, a light kiss of hops. Body is light and carbonation is lively in the style of a beer designed for the tropics. It finishes with a light sweetness and a bite that is more carbonic than from hop bitterness. © Gregg Smith
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Ursus Black, Ursus Breweries, Cluj Napoca, Romania – Ursus, or Bear, thus it’s named after a Black Bear. Dark, nearly opaque, topped with a creamy colored head. Aroma is of dark bread, dark malts, and dark sugars. Sweet; with a dark almost burnt character underneath an intense sweetness, punctuated by a bit of licorice. Mouthfeel is similar to a Schwartz beer and it seems light compared to the intense sweetness. Bitterness makes an appearance in the finish. © Gregg Smith Zoo Brew Returns August 18th from 5 to 9 p.m. In
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Speights Brewery (Lion Breweries – NZ) Dunedin, New Zealand It pours an attractive copper color and raises a moderately-thick, off white head which lasts a reasonable time before diminishing. A clean malty aroma it is faintly but fruity and ale-like. The medium-thin body presents a caramel maltiness, light Spicy hops and low carbonation. It finishes slightly dry. Mark your calendars, Mountain Brewers Beer Fest –June 3rd, Idaho Falls, ID – TICKETS on sale now at https://myidahotix.com/events/mountain-brewers-beer-fest-2023-6-3-2023 Copyright Gregg Smith – His latest book “American Beer History” is available on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/American-Beer-History-Mayflower-Microbreweries/dp/108155410X/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=American+Beer+History&qid=1625503750&sr=8-2
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Baltika #4 Premium, Baltika Breweries, Russian Federation, Leningrad, Russia – A dark euro lager, in the glass it yields a bright medium amber color a thinnish head and sporadic lacing. Aroma is of dark fruits, toffee and light whiffs of brown sugar. The flavor profile begins with dark fruit then bread and caramel character emerges along with some brown sugar. Hops are earthy but subdued. Mouthfeel is light\medium with medium carbonation; it finishes semi-dry with notes of caramel. Mark your calendars, Mountain Brewers Beer Fest –June 3rd, Idaho Falls, ID
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Harpoon IPA, Harpoon Brewery, Boston, Massachusetts – Bright, medium\dark gold topped with a somewhat thin white head. Nose is floral and offers a piney almost resin quality. Flavor is sweet malt, caramel and citric notes of orange and grapefruit. Body is medium with a creamy mouthfeel produced by light carbonation. Hops are fairly assertive with a piney finish. This was one of the first successful east coast IPA’s. Mark your calendars, Mountain Brewers Beer Fest –June 3rd, Idaho Falls, ID – TICKETS on sale now at https://myidahotix.com/events/mountain-brewers-beer-fest-2023-6-3-2023 Copyright Gregg Smith
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Old Speckled Hen, Green King Brewery, Bury St. Edmunds, England – An ESB, it pours amber\light reddish brown with a creamy head. Aroma is floral hops, and a low note of butter typical of many ESB’s. Flavors are malty, toffee, nutty, biscuit-like, fruity, and low citric. Mouthfeel is medium\full with medium carbonation. It finishes with medium bitterness of earthy English hops. Old Speckled Hen offers a classic rendition of an ESB. Copyright Gregg Smith Mark your calendars, Mountain Brewers Beer Fest –June 3rd, Idaho Falls, ID – TICKETS on sale
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Daybreak Pale Ale – Bale Breaker Brewing; Yakima, Washington – From the heart of Washington’s Hop Country Bale Breaker celebrates its tenth anniversary with the release of Daybreak Pale Ale. In their signature Hop-forward style Daybreak follows the lead of the brewery’s other beers, but does so while using just two hops, Simcoe and Mosaic. The result is a crisp beer with notes of grapefruit (of course) along with apricot, berries, melon and a bit of resin-like character. All that comes in a reasonable ABV of 5.5%. Look for it
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La Trappe Dubbel Abdij O.L.V. Koningshoeven, Berkel-Enschot, Netherlands – Deep orange-brown with a foamy light brown head, at times the bottle conditioning provides a slight haze\turbidity. The head diminishes in a moderate amount of time, but lacing remains along the glass. Aromas of dark fruit, distinctive Belgian-style yeast and caramel make up the nose with no discernable hops. A nice beer to sip and savor. © Gregg Smith Beer Fest Tickets – Mountain Brewers Beer Fest –June 3rd, Idaho Falls, ID – TICKETS on sale now at https://myidahotix.com/events/mountain-brewers-beer-fest-2023-6-3-2023 Copyright Gregg
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Sakara Weizen – This self-styled wheat beer of the Al Ahram company has a medium gold hazy appearance common in a Weizen beer topped by a fairly thick and frothy but short lived white head. Body is medium; the flavor is light and spicy with low banana flavors and aromas expected in a wheat beer with a faint citric bitterness. The finish is fruity, watery and lightly sweet. © Gregg Smith Mountain Brewers Beer Fest –June 3rd, Idaho Falls, ID – TICKETS on sale now at https://myidahotix.com/events/mountain-brewers-beer-fest-2023-6-3-2023 Mark your calendars,
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