Soy Sauce Flavored Beer
My brother just got back from Italy and I decided we’d celebrate so I walked to Publix only to be thoroughly disappointed by their sad selection of beer. First off, my brother has fancy tastes so that means Delirium Noctum, Chamay, Leffe Brun, Pranqster or any pricy Belgium ale that is ideally dark or golden. So here I stood trying to find a Belgium Ale in a Super Market whose idea of foreign beer involved Heineken. Okay, maybe not that bad but still it was either Leffe Blond or Blue Moons Belgium Style Blond, at which I would have much rather have gone with Affligen. Then Holy Mackeral: Panic Attack! It’s a Belgian-Style Beer, so it fits my criteria. Plus it is a local brewer (Floriday), GO HEAT!, and it is a craft beer, which always nifty. It a triple Belgium ale which makes me inclined to buy since Golden Monkey by Victory is quafftastic to my palate. But it didn’t stop there unfortunately it followed: “a Saison Fuision”. Eh, um, er, really? I haven’t delved much into Saisons but Widmers Brothers Dark Saison was enough to send me scurrying back to an Imperial IPA just to rid myself of the flavor. But hey, my brother just got back and it sounds like his type of beer.
So I am pretty excited to try it, so I lunge to taste it after he opens his and well, I didn’t know what to think about it. My brother tasted it, he gave me a look
-It tastes like some sort of Asian food.
-Haha, it taste like soy sauce.
I know this sounds awful and I probably just signed my death sentence by giving group of beer aficionados a reason to come torch my house down. It is as drinkable as whiskey- one sip at a time. I can taste the barely very subtlety and it has a good after taste that is close to a Leffe but everything in the middle is literally soy sauce. Guess it’s the yeast that turns me off, which in my opinion makes the beer a pleonasm of flavor. They should have removed one of the three flavors to make it enjoyable, then again I guess they did stay true in making it “a fine SIPPING beer.”
-Mr. Malts
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