Blond Strong Ale Mountain Beer
Origin: Mosco (מוסקו) (Zanoah, Israel)
Style: Blonde Ale
ABV: 6.5%
IBU: Not Listed
Description: This is my second offering from Israel and I am very stoked to try it. It is a blonde ale so we should be in good company to enjoy with friends or alone with some light food.
HELLO carbonation! Opening the bottle I get a small spill over even though it has been vertical in my fridge for a few days. Excited to see me, I expect. Wow, that is some head! If my memory of fractions serves me right that is 2/5th head to 3/5th beer. Interesting. Who knew the Israelis copied the Belgians? It pours very murky yellow leaning to the brackish colour.
The nose brings some spice and after spooning out the 2″ head I get a tangy wine gum with mustard and malt vinegar. Damn, where are my Belgian fries?
At first sip, I get the thought of tasting a potion made with all the leftover spices out of the mouse-ridden pantry of a closed restaurant in Wolverhampton. The carbonation is still assaulting my palate and the aftertaste is of wet burnt toast from the Korean War. I feel the need for my mother to burp me and wash my mouth out with soap.
Now I could make all kinds of jokes and maybe in my review I have, but I am not going to segregate this brewery from the craft beer movement. Okay, I am going to make a joke. I understand where this beer is coming from and how long it took to get here, along with what it had to endure to get here. Heat, time and mishandling. Why does that sound familiar?? What this beer tells me is that craft beer while marketed and sold globally should really be enjoyed locally for best taste. As a sworn agnostic and a true Northerner comfortable in the cold, I have been given a reason to travel to the heat of a highly fervent area. Proof beer can unite. The mountain comes to Muhammad, it seems? -C.B.
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