That said, I don't even have a way to "tie this beer" to Monday, or President's day or anything. Sadly, the Heineken Site suggests this Tarwebok Beer to be drank in Autumn. As a result, I may not be buying my beers from this distributor any longer. I'm not sure if this is correct but there is a really crazy date system with Heineken and the number on my bottle is 1189528r1014. I googled this and if I'm doing the math right this bottle was brewed on Aug 8 or 9 of 2011. Now, this is a dark wheat and some answers.yahoo.com page stated that the drink by would be 9 months past that. If I'm "still doing my math right" that means this beer should technically still have been good? Either way, that was a lot of math and a lot of calculating and work to place on the consumer if you ask me. When I own my BREWERY my beer names will be "DRINK ON MM/DD/YYYY" for every beer! You will not have to guess, play games, you will just know.
Now, that said above I guess this beer was still "good". I wasn't a huge fan of it but actually the more I drank it last night the more I started to enjoy it actually. It is a traditional wheat bock beer. The beer pours a nice crystal clear glass of brown beer. The beer has a bit of light dirty white head to it. I got a bit of fruity smell from the nose and definitely smelled the wheat/malt smell coming from the glass. I was reviewing my notes from last night and even still today I'm confused if I liked it. There was a huge amount of honey burnt caramel taste to the brew. I almost think that I'm drinking this beer the wrong time of year and/or wrong occasion with the wrong food pairing. As I listened to my notes I was stating how this was definitely an interesting and complex beer. It had some spicy notes to it and came across as sort of a scotch or bourbon type beverage. The carbonation was not extremely huge. It was a medium body with that honey like texture to the drink. In general I didn't care for this one but I think it was one that could probably grow on my if I gave it a chance. Just not sure I will give it a chance. To many other good beers out there that I do like.
Thanks for listening. On to Fat Tuesday's post!