I got two Belgium beers made by Brouwerij De Regenboog. Brouwerij De Regenboog means rainbow in Dutch. The brewery started in 1995 as an artisanal brewery only making 1 barrel 120 liters of beer a week. I couldn't find much other info about the brewery, it's fun to drink beers from brewery's I can't find info about. I bet knowing Dutch would help.
This beer has a sharp dry smell, but with a little spice flavor. When I was pouring the beer I first thought it smelled like a Belgium beer which I think comes from using candy sugars, but the smell passed quickly. This beer has an unfiltered yellow brown color and only a bit of foam. Adding flavors to beer other than malt and hops like spices have a tendency to limit the foam.
This beer tastes like orange juice. I am not noticing any other flavors other than orange juice. I can't detect any malt or hops, or the mustard that the beer is supposed the be brewed with. A lightly sour orange juice is all I can think of.
There might be something wrong with this bottle, or maybe this is the way a beer brewed with mustard seeds tastes like. Overall I don't really like this beer I don't think it tastes like beer.
2 comments:
A friend of mine and I threw a big tasting a little under a year ago, and this was one of the beers. At the time, I remember it having a pretty identifiable mustard flavor, and being pretty enjoyable for using such an unusual flavor. It was one of my favorites of the night, actually.
I really like this beer. I actually tried my first attempt at brewing something similar this morning.
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