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Elais Beer 5.0%, Angel's Beer, Italy
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Elais Beer
5.0% Belgian Ale

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Post author: WexiLahti
WexiLahti
@ Pirrimenti
3 years ago
Elais Beer, Italy
3.8
This Belgian Blonde is today's find in Reggio Calabria. The strange characteristic of this beer is that it contains OLIVE OIL. Very Calabrian. I've never tasted a beer that contains olive oil. I'm not enthralled but I want to keep my mind open. I actually bought three different products by Angel's Beer. Another one also contains olive oil if I remember correct. The third one doesn't. Anyway, this beer is turbid, dirty amber. Carbonation is fairly aggressive as the glass first fills with froth only. It takes a bit of time to settle. Once reasonable, the head is cloud-white and creamy, almost bubbleless. Retention is long. The nose receives stuffy elements, such as powerful wheat malt and wheat bread, accompanied by fruity inputs of grapefruit and orange peel, perhaps also a proposal of fermented banana. I don't pick olive oil in the olfactory sphere. The taste identity is composed of soft wheat malt, wheat biscuit, bitter orange peel and lemon pulp. A soft yeasty touch tickles gently my tastebuds. I'm not sure if I pick truly distant olive oil in the palate or not but at least I'm imagining it there. Admittedly, had I not known that it's there, I couldn't identify it in any meaningful way. What I do recognize though is sugar but, fortunately, it's really controlled. The body is medium-full. That's where the olive oil obviously shows its presence. The finish offers fruitier components ahead of other flavors, which reduces the closedness significantly and intensifies freshness. The mouthfeel is savory, oily and slick. It's also rather full, remarkably velvety, effervescent and smooth. Maybe also slightly Belgiany. I can imagine that the olive oil plays a key role in making the mouthfeel like what it is. This is an interesting beer that could easily be a disaster. However, it's nice and tasty. Olive oil pays its tricks neatly in the shadows and doesn't steal the show. +0.2 stars extra for thinking different.