Løkken brewery dates back to 1867 where the brewer Anders Christian Andersen bought a old shipping warehouse in Løkken, Denmark. Løkken Bbrewery is today a micro brewery and has a yearly production of 700 hl. beer after their own recipes.
I bought this witbier on a 330 ml bottle at 4,6% from a wine shop in Odense, Denmark at the price of 2,5 Euro.
Yellow in the colour with a somewhat grey porridge tone to it.
No head or foam worth mentioning.
A anonymous aroma and almost too light to notice.
The flat CO2 with a dominating wheat in the taste is only slightly broken up with a minimal flower note, finishes with a slight bitterness.
Huyghe Brewery is a brewery founded in 1906 by Leon Huyghe in city of Melle in East Flanders, Belgium. They have a product line called Mongozo.
I bought this organic, gluten free, fair trade white wheat beer in a 330 ml bottle at 4,8%, at a wine shop at the price of 4 Euro.
Yellow in the colour with a white touch to it.
Medium sized head with a fine structure and top.
Flowers and fruit comes off in a good composition in the aroma, suitable in strength, the flowery part is not dominant over the fruit.
Drinking and tasting starts with a relatively flat CO2, a somewhat confused impression from the flower, wheat and hops composition. One of the few things that drags this beer in the right direction is it being organic.
Old texts mention, that beer was brewed in the 1600’s by the father of, Tobias Schaidinger who in 1656 built a new brewery in Teisendorf, Germany. This brewery was bought by Philipp Wieninger in 1813. The brewery is today driven by Christian Wieninger who is the 8th generation of the brewing family.
I bought this dunkel weissbier on a 500 ml bottle at 5,2% from a German webshop located in Bayern. The price was 1,49 Euro.
A deep brown colour with a very dark orange tone in the bottom of the glass.
Grand big head with a rough structure, a very fine foam on the top.
The aroma comes off with a good sweet fruit with a medium strength.
When drinking the beer it immediately welcomes with a good CO2 content, delicious fruit with a weak wheat twist to it, but unfortunately it ends very fast and is too gentle in its taste expression.
The Gourmet Brewery was founded in 2005 in Denmark, today the two originally owners are no longer a part of the brewery and it is owned by the Harboe brewery group.
I bought this large wheat ale from a supermarket in Denmark, it is a 750 ml bottle at 5,0% that cost 4 Euro.
Good looking yellow colour with a bright and white shine to it.
Grand big head with a rough structure and a fine foam on the top.
Perfumed in the aroma, almost too much, slightly wheated tones.
Powerful CO2 along with sweet flower and wheat notes are the first impressions this presents, easy to drink, fresh but with a short finish.
The name Quinta do Noval first appeared in land registers in the year 1715. António José da Silva, a Port shipper from Gaia, father-in-law of Luiz Valsconcelos Porto, acquired Quinta do Noval in 1894 after its devastation by phylloxera. He restored the property by replanting its vineyards.
A new bottling line and warehouse was completed in 1997 in Alijo, near to Pinhão. This project made Quinta do Noval the first of the traditional Port shippers to centralise all its activities in the Douro Valley rather than in Vila Nova de Gaia near Porto.
Estimated cost of this Quinta do Noval Silval Vintage Port 1995 bottle of 750 ml is 38 Euro.
Taste notes right after decanting
Red to light red in the colour
Feels thin and easy to sling in the glass, heavy curtains on the sides.
Spiced fruit, darkness, tannin and a dominating alcohol in the aroma.
Good fruit with a powerful bite, sweet taste with some alcohol.
Intermediate rating 85 /100
2.5 hours after decanting
Darker in the colour and slightly heavier.
Aroma and taste remains the same as earlier.
6 hours after decanting
Darker in the colour
Dark and spicy with a sharp nose.
Medium bodied, yet dry and alive from tannin. Sweet fruit in the end.
Will properly improve with longer decanting than 6 hours, still a lot of tannin that could rest for a couple more years in the cellar. The bottle had a bigger sediment than what I find on average in a vintage port.
The bar La Baladin opens in Piozzo, Italy in 1986, at 1996 it has its own brewing equipment and becomes a brewpub. It was founded by master brewer Teo Musso.
I received this beer as a gift, it was bought at a beer shop in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a corked and varnished 750 ml bottle at 5%.
Beautiful beer, yellow going to orange in the colour.
A small head that disappears quickly.
Light and fresh aroma with a weak fruit over it. A good and sweet scent.
Good CO2 level, delicious fruit in the taste, good balance between sweet and acid notes. Sweetness and hops go hand in hand. Soft, velvet and pleasant after taste. Fades very nice.
Volkan beer brewery is located on the island Naxos in the city of Santorini, Greece. What is special about the Volkan beer is that the water is filtered in a unique Santorini basalt filter unit which consists of volcano lava stones, Santorini honey and citrus from Naxos.
I received this beer as a gift, it was bought at a beer shop in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is a 330 ml bottle at 5%.
Beautiful and thick flowing yellow going to orange beer.
A small head with a fine top but else a rather rough structure.
Suitable aroma, fruity and sweet, but with a dominating flowery scent to it. Slightly spiced.
Low CO2, a very sweet beer, it is infact extremely sweet, sugary and it is just too much, not a pleasant drink. Its use of honey in the brewing process is not a hit with me. Tastes like a 8-10% beer trying to hide its alcohol with honey.
Brewery Dupont originates back to 1920 where Louis Dupont was given the old farm-brewery Rimaux-Deridder dating back from 1759, from his father Alfred Dupont. Louis had not children and his nephew Sylva Rosier. Sylva’s son Marc Rosier managed the brewery from 1964 to 2002. Since 2002, Olivier Dedeycker has succeeded his uncle Marc Rosier as the Director of the family brewery and therefore represents the fourth generation of this brewers’ family.
I got this unfiltered wheat beer as a gift, it was bought in a beer shop in Copenhagen, I do not know the price for this 250 ml bottle at 5,5%.
Light yellow colour and only slightly hazy, not a beer large enough to be served in a weissbier glass.
Medium head with a rough structure but a fine foam on top.
Good fresh and fruity in the aroma, with a good scent of banana to it.
Powerful CO2, good fruit, fresh, wheat and some banana in the delicate, not to powerful taste. A good and fresh wheat beer. Bonus points for being organic / biodynamic.
Indslev brewery was established in 1897 by Frederik Christian Rasmussen. At some point the brewery was closed down, but in 2005 restored to former glory with brand new production equipment. The re-opening was made possible by Anders Busse Rasmussen, grand grand nephew of Frederik Christian Rasmussen.
I bought this bottled 6.5% 500 ml unfiltered wheat beer in a local super market in Odense, Denmark at the price of 4.5 Euro.
A good looking yellow beer.
Small head with a semi rough structure, a tiny fine top.
Sweet and heavily hoppy in the aroma.
Low CO2, bitterness, sweetness, ends off in a slight fruit and hops. Hides the high alcohol percentage very well.
