Beer Blog & Beer Reviews

Opening Maisels Weisse

Opening the bottle shows medium to high amounts of carbonation (fizzyness). Pouring it shows it to be a head happy beer with a dark straw colour and white head.

Maisel weisse Bottle

As with all weisse and white beers (especially a hefeweizen I like this) it looks cloudy. This particular weisse isnt as cloudy as some others like floris or meantime wheat.

What does the weisse smell like?

It has the traditional wheat/wisse/wit smell in droves with the smell finishing with a malty digestive note. It’s almost like banana cheese cake base but with all the usual weisse notes too.

What does Maisels Weisse taste like?

All of the lovely wheaty flavors are there on first taste, the flavors are on your tongue as soon as it hits your mouth. Some wheat beers can have a musty, sweaty taste and smell but maisels weisse happily is missing those sour notes.

I can taste more malt in this than ususal with weisse/wit beers, but with a smooth mellow wheat flavor th biscuity malt blends well with the wheat to make a good rounded beer.

Trying to think about individual flavors there are: dried banana, very slight cloves and crème, plus the usual wheaty ‘yeastyness’. Almost like a savory desert beer.

Some times when you drink beer you can tell right away its quality and that you are going to enjoy every drop of it you ever drink untill the day you die, well this is one of those beers and seriously challenges some of my long held favorites for a place in my favourite beers.

If you take all of the good bits from Leffe, Floris Wit, meantime wheat and add make them into a smooth, seriously tasty beer thats not only easy to drink, but has very good flavor and body then you might be able to imagine maisel’s Weisse. It even tastes good ‘on the burp’.

Summary

Smooth flavors and feel, rounded and balanced, easy going but with plenty of flavors.

This is the sort of beer I made this blog to talk about. Its foreign, interesting, imported, fantastic to taste and out of the ordinary. I might not have known about it if it were not for the Continually kind and knowledgeable people at purity brewery, so again thank you to them for importing this wonderful beer.

Disagreement in the camp?

I’ve heard people say the flavors aren’t strong enough in it which is all well and good if your are drinking beer for the sake of being arty and poncey, but I drink beers looking for a beer to enjoy regardless of the snobbery, I just want something that tastes good and this is it. if you want a challenging you can drink some overpowering, brutal beer, but this to me is beer for the ordinary beer lover who drinks beers of all kinds of beers and loves it because they taste good, not becasue they are challenging and intellectual.

You can get Maisels Weissen from Purity Brewery along with some other great imported beers.

Purity Brewery: UBU Ale

UBU premium amber ale is quaintly named after purity brewery’s unfaithful companion, UBU the dog.

“god love him the dog is mad. But an inspiration to all who enjoy doing what they do and want to be love for being what they are”

The UBU label has a distinctive Typographic style with a sketched dog which will site well with younger drinkers and stand out on shelf. You can also spot it from above by there red star logo.

If you care to join them on face book their infamous dog ubu has his own face book group to join.

Opening UBU

UBU does Not have much fizz but it pours with a good head with a bit of encouragement.

UBU has a Lovely hoppy smell, it smells like it will be quite hoppy. This defiantly has a strong smell off cascade hops.

The head dies off UBU quite quickly leaving some residue on top of the amber colour beer.

Does UBU’s Bite Match the Bark?

The Ale has a good hoppy flavor at first which mellows out into, the smell that comes through when drinking is like sweet fruit bread, brown sugar, malt loaf.

The bittering is medium on the palette the malt is simple and clean. I like the lack of fuss that this beer comes with. Its a basic amber ale with a sort of normal pint thing about it, but with extra flavor especially as you drink it more and more.

Could UBU be Adictive?

This beer improves consistently with the amount of it you drink. As you get used to the taste it changes and almost matures in your mouth and it becomes more flavorsome and full. I think it must have some some nefarious additive agent in it!

Conclusion

I am a big fan of Beers with plenty of aroma hops and this is right up my street. UBU is a honest beer with honest flavors and for a pint to drink in a pub I would be chuffed if it was a regular on the pumps.

Purity Brewery Pure Gold ale is a premium ale made in a eco friendly way.

Green beer means beer made with as little impact on nature as possible, not to be confused with the drinks often made on St patrick’s day by adding green food colouring.

Purity Brewery Pure Gold Ale

The Official Line on Pure Gold

Talking to the brewers the say “We say it’s an easy drinking beer with a lovely dry and bitter finish”

What Pure Gold Smells Like

Pure Gold smells a little like tribute ale by st austell. It smells like a good traditional golden ale with a small hint of something like a continental lager.

Good Head?

Gold has a good head which is quite thick compared to mad goose.

Its quite gassy having either been gassed up with co2/nitrogen or being fermented a second time under pressure. It has alot of fizz for an ale, but this seems to help the head.

What does it taste like

This is a really nice beer, when drinking it and smelling it at the same time the lemon/lime zesty dry taste and the hops blend together seamlessly into a really nice citrus hop bitter taste.

The after taste is dominantly hops, but the taste doesn’t dominate your mouth if your know what I mean?

There is a definitely a slight sweet theme running throughout the beer when the zesty bitter hops aren’t there on your taste buds.

If i could change one thing about this it would be too let some of that gas go and leave it to warm up a little. This beer is probably best served slightly warmer than some others.

Pure Gold Review

To me Pure Gold is a almost a modern twist on a classic golden ale. It brings some of the fizz from modern lagers and adds it to the classic fuggles and goldings hops but even these are grown in exotic Slovenia soil.

Very Nice, very drinkable and a easy beer to drink especially on a warm evening. Its interesting to note the cask version is 3.8% while a bottle will come with 4.3 ABV, its is because it easier to sell bottled beer at higher ABVs. The brewer assures me they taste the same anyway.

For these beers I am bringing out my new lidless, solid bottom, English pewter tankard. Its the perfect size for the full bottle and the purity of the beers I think deservies it.

Purity Brewery Mad Goose IPA

Lovley People, Nice to the Ecosystem

Well I can tell you having spoke to Claire at their office they are realy nice people and they are actually very much into the environemnt. I was a cynic when I read the labels promclaiming eco friendly ethics, but having read there literature and talked to the people i’m all for the green beer ethic purity brewing extoles.

Getting On and Drinking It

The beer is medium fizzy and pours well without fuss. There is a very slight caramel smell to the usual IPA tones of sweet hops and malty flavor. From the smell I think its going to be creamy.

On drinking you get Sweeness, quickly to bitter hops, then back onto the sweet malt before mellowing out into fruit aromas given by the cascade hops. Its doesnt leave the breath feeling too warm and the bitter drying finish at the very end, which can some catch the back of the throught, is there but it is very plesant.

The beer certainly doesnt taste like its been chemicaly treated (not that most do), and the taste is good. A lot of IPA’s I drink these days are far to plain, this beer walks the fine line between the plain jane and the interestingly drinkable. Its very nice to drink without being.. over the top.

Half way through drinking the beer the head doing well, and I am taking my time with this. The head lasts long enough to drink the beer through top to bottom.

What is in it?

Like almost all british beers these days, this is brewed with Maris Otter Malt. It gives a rounded nice malty flavor, but without too much going on. The Majority of the Nicer Malty flavors in the beer seem to some from the subtly creamy/butter tones supplied by the wheat malt included in the mash while brewing.

I’ve never heard of or used 2 of the three hops used in this beer, but they seem to hit the spot. Its definatly a good change from ‘good old’ Fuggles and Goldings, of which im becoming increasingly board despite my patriotic view of using british produce.

Mad Goose in a Glass

Is It Any Good

After all this talk about the green beer / eco friendly beer and the ingredients used, the one question I can hear you waiting me to get to is “is it a nice beer then?”

Well the answer is a definate yes.

The One thing Mad goose really does well is a balancing act. Its not so hoppy or mad that it is a party peice beer, but it is also very tasty with it. You will be able to drink this without having to make a big deal about it and you certinaly will be able to enjoy pint after pint of it.

There is a HUGE amount of competition in the IPA market and this beer not only has something to set its self apart being a em>green beer, it also tastes good. Its not out of this world crazy like Wipe Out IPA or BrewDog Extreme IPA, its just a good drinkable IPA with nice flavors. If it also helps the environemnt by me drinking it then I am all the more happy to drink it again!

Tasty Green Beer?

Recent chatting on the web had brought my attention to a brewery apparently selling “Carbon Neutral Beer” which turned out to be Adams Brewery. This idea of eco freindly Green beer peaked my interest and so I set about invesitgating the area.

Now! Ecology is something we should all involved in, if not interested in. I am keen on recycling, turning off the TV at the wall and taking phone chargers out of the sockets when not in use and I think responsable bussiness should take head too. We are porbably too late to save the environment totally but we would be daft if we didnt give a go, thats just ignorant!

Can You Make Green Beer at a Profit?

On a recent visit to Redscar Brewery I had seen water reclaimation in action and so I knew it was possable to be eco friendly and successful. However Purity Brewery take this to a whole new level!

At the very centre of thier work is a commitment to supporting the environment:

We have created our own unique Pond and Wetland system specifically developed as a means to treat our waste water. It is a totally sustainable eco-system which forms an interesting and varied ecological habitat that is developing into a wildlife sanctuary…

…Our spent grain is recycled for feed for the animals on the farm and spent hops are spread on the fields as fertiliser. We genuinely care about our planet and are constantly searching for new ways to help it.

Now thats what I call Green beer!

Can you make Tasty Green Beer?

Well this is the question I am only to happy to answer, and very soon I will answer it with great joy as I have two bottles of each of there beers and I intend to review them.

I know UBU is available is in Sainsburys but I got mine direct from the brewery as I might suggest you do. Help keep the micro-brew scene going and buy direct from the brewers.