Pszeniczne Naturalnie Mętne Product review.

Pszeniczne Naturalnie Mętne

  *Product Review*

Brewery: Okocim

Alcohol: 5%

Volume: 500ml

Cost: 4.20PLN

Apperance: Nicely golden orangey -yellow. The traditional cloud associated with wheat beers and also a decent head early on, that vanished quickly when drinking.

Aroma: Really fresh and creamy, some hint of  orange and lime citrus (especially after I added lime)

In the mouth:Really smooth, simple and a little hit of hoppiness towards the back of the palate and some peachy/apricoty sweetness

Drink with: Anything that you want on a sunny summers day. It is the perfect warm weather beer. Would be equally great with fruit as with fish. A great outdoors beer.

Overall:  Really nice and a beer I will buy more of.
8/10

Website: http://www.carlsbergpolska.pl//Marki/Pages/OkocimPszeniczne.aspx 
 

Product review AIPA Piwo Rzemieślnicze

AIPA Piwo Rzemieślnicze

  *Product Review*

Brewery: Browar Wojkówka

Alcohol: 4.5%

Volume: 500ml

Cost: 8,00PLN

Apperance: dark golden honey, light short lived head, low fizz.

Aroma: Honey and apricot jam, real caramelised sugar
 

In the mouth: strawberry jam with burnt caramel, nice hoppiness to it

Drink with: pistacho nuts, light crackers and prezels, olives a real snacky associated beer.

Overall:  Not as light as hoped, you would have expected an IPA to be lighter, it is quite refreshing and has a little sugary balance at the end with fruit flavours.

8.0/10

Website: www.zzbrowar.pl

Product Review, Bojan Black IPA.

Bojan Black IPA

   *Product Review*

Brewery: Bojan Regionale

Alcohol: 6.0%

Volume: 500ml

Cost: 7.50PLN

Apperance: Rich blackness and a fine bead on the beer, nice caramel head that holds for about half a glass.

Aroma: warm caramel, treacle, oaty, malt.

In the mouth: beautiful mouthfeel, smooth with some tart on the sides, nice maltiness, with a small hint of sweetness.

Drink with: any sort of dessert, or anything spicy and light in volume. It isn't as heavy as a porter or stout so opens it to flexible applications with food.

Overall: One of the better beers I have had of recent times, I was really impressed and have never had a black IPA before, it was a really pleasant surprise and I would expect to buy this again.

   
8.5/10

Website: 

New Boozey bits

It has been a while since I made some more liqueurs. I don't think I made anything last year.... maybe some Wiśnówka (cherry liqueur). This year we have been drinking some great Fernet Citrus a fabulous Czech beverage which one of my fabulous students brought me because you can't buy it in Poland. Hence, we wanted to make some sort of digestive. It is very difficult to find a good/easy recipe for a herbal based liqueur, so we had to think about it ourselves and design something that might be similar. It is of course hard as you won't know for a month or more how it does taste. Time in this case is your enemy, where as with liqueurs normally it is your best friend.

We gathered together some things we thought might make a good brew.

Some spices

Spice and ginger

Some lime rind, with lemon thyme and a vanilla bean

some mint and lemon balm

A couple of oregano leaves and the heavy stuff gets added.

Now mix.

The whole recipe:

10g Lemon Balm
13g Spearmint
1g Thyme

5 Cloves
10 Peppercorns
15 Aniseeds
10 Corriander seeds
5 Cumin seeds
1 Vanilla pod

16g Ginger (peeled)
Lime (Juice and zest)

300mL White Rum
~600mL Vodka

105g Sugar
100mL Water

Combine all the dry ingredients into the jar including the lime zest and juice. Heat the sugar and water in a pan until it has dissolved. Add this to the dry ingredients, then the white rum and top up with Vodka. Shake and store in a dark cool place. Shake whenever you remember it.

Or maybe some plums

Totally stoned

Pack the kids in

Add a vanilla pod brandy and vodka and store somewhere dark

Pick some bountiful wild foods. The horseradish leaves for bread and the mirabelle plums to eat and maybe try a liqueur, the French of Lorraine can't be wrong.

Now add some sugar and gin and vodka.

a bit cloudy but from all reports that is normal.

Now let's wait and see how they taste..... 2 weeks after bottling the first two and they are very very good. The Mirabelles need much more time.

Product review - Lipcowe.

Lipcowe

  *Product Review*

Brewery: Jagiełło

Alcohol: 5,2%

Volume: 330ml

Cost: 3.20PLN

Apperance: Crisp clean with a light head foamy head that did hang around a while longer than many lagers.

Aroma: Smells of green almonds and maybe stale urine.

In the mouth: Malty, and hoppy, it isn't big in the mouth, slides off quickly and you are left with a residual sweetness.

Drink with: We ate it with some pulled beef but to be honest, there are plenty of better beers on the market. This brewery make odd things like Chocolate, plum, cherry, and cranberry beers. Lipcowe basically means July beer, it is August now, maybe I should have not drunk it because it was the wrong month.... To be honest, don't drink it. Luckily if you have to, it comes only in 330ml so it is less pain.

Overall: 2/10

Website: http://www.browar-jagiello.pl/index2.html

Product Review - Kopernik (Edycja Limitowana)

Kopernik
(Edycja Limitowana)

  *Product Review*

Brewery: Browar Amber

Alcohol: 4.8%

Volume: 500ml

Cost: 4.00PLN

Apperance: Crisp clean with a light head foamy head that did hang around a while longer than many lagers.

Aroma: Nothing really outstanding here, smells of hops to a degree and maybe a little honey and lots of yeastiness in there.

In the mouth: Crisp, light some citrus flavour, hoppy but really, like a good party guest, it doesn't hang around too long.

Drink with: Being a real lager style beer you would drink this with hot, spicy, salty or BBQ flavoured things. So maybe go with some shashlik of Mexican marinated pork.

Overall:  6/10

Website: http://www.browar-amber.pl/pl/aktualnosci/limitowana-edycja-piwa-z-browaru-amber

Konstancin Żytni

Konstancin 

Żytni

*Product Review*

Brewery: Kompania Piwowarska

Alcohol: 5.3%

Volume: 500ml

Cost: about 3.90PLN

Appearance: Lager orange- tan. Super bubbly but the head vanished quickly.

Aroma: Vanilla, cream and egg yolk. Maybe this is a custard....

In the mouth: Peaches, citrus peel, with a good hit of hops.

Drink with: A really different beer this one. It tastes like it wants to be sweet but isn't. It is really light on the tongue and doesn't really hang around in the mouth meaning you want to drink more and more of it. For this reason I would say it is great for an outdoor event, A roast on an open fire like a suckling pig would be perfect for it.

Overall: It is good, it is different. How many could you drink? Does it matter? I think it is certainly one of the nicer beers on the market, Konstancin do make consistently good beers, I would certainly drink it again.

8/10

Website:http://www.browar-konstancin.pl/index.php/ida/21/

(but unfortunately there are no English details of this beer)

Product Review - Cornelius - Ciemny Pszeniczny

Cornelius - Ciemny Pszeniczny

   *Product Review*

Brewery: Sulimar

Alcohol: 5%

Volume: 500ml

Cost: 2.90PLN

Apperance: Reddish brown in colour, a white head with a slight yellow colour to it. Not overly gaseous.

Aroma: Herbaceous and malty sweetness, but overall very light on aroma.

In the mouth: A touch of sweetness, dark chocolatey, a hint of  rhubarb or gooseberry tart. Smooth across the tongue and finishes with this fuity nice tartness.

Drink with: Interesting beer, you could even have it with a desert I would suggest good with a pudding, chocolate is preferred, or maybe golden syrup pudding.... now I am hungry!

Overall:  A pleasant beer, easily drinkable, but probably not something you would want to drink more than one of.
7/10

Website: http://www.cornelius.pl/