Natural Blonde Wheat Beer (4.5%)

Another Grand Ridge brew? here it is. frothy on pour but quickly dissipating, i am suddenly hit by a slight sulphur nose that takes me back to the belgium beer tasting i had last week. This corresponds into taste, and must say i find it quite disappointing to my personal tastes. There seems to be a decent body at the background of this beer, but the heightened sulphur flavour overcomes this. luckily though this does not have a powerful length on it so aftertaste is not too bad. Seeing Joel did give me these grand ridge beers for my birthday, and seeing Grand Ridge keep their beers away from chemicals, the life of them dimishes quickly, and 6 months may be too long to leave then undrunk.

A bit of warmth does help with the taste, to bring in more of a citrusy flavour that at least goes with the thin mouthfeel, and the sulphur does diminish with this...

while i give this beer a bit more time to warm, I can let you know that stass and I have decided to open one of our raspberry stouts early as they just seem to be exploding and ruining our bottles. he did go outside with a large plastic container to allow the beer to explode from the bottle into that. and did it ever explode. i closed the glass door to kitchen when he was opening it, and it was worth it. when it opened, it went off like a mortar shell. we still managed to drink about 400ml of it, but the rest of it went all over stass and the (outside) walls of this place. Still, later that night at a Twoks gig, i managed to get Leffe Blonde all over me, so i guess it was even...

back to the beer, the carbonation again seems to be a bit high to separate the taste, sensing a more simplistic beer because of it. having beer from a keg really does add something to a beer, and generally it helps create a more rounded taste, and depending on the use of the keg, a fresher taste as well. here, the back of the tongue is getting overstimulated with the carbonation and so less of the beer is able to be tasted.

well, left disappointed with this beer, but one more Grand Ridge beer to try today...

Beefy