Alvinne Extra Restyled

Brewed by Picobrouwerij Alvinne
Style: Belgian Ale
Heule, Belgium

11.2 oz squatty brown glass bottle. No freshness date. Appearance: It’s a gusher! Have the glass ready! Golden with notes of light brown. Thick white head with lots of retention! Fair amount of particles. Nose: Smells like the other Alvinne’s I’ve had. A little sweet malt, a little Euro-hops, a little yeast-spice. Palate: Sharp edges, almost with a sour/bitter edge all the way around the mouth. Fairly clean and light on the flavors. The bitterness rules this beer. Some light fruit estery-flavors, a little herbal note, and a light asian citrus note. Finish is centered around the bitterness. Notes: Not a great beer, I don’t think. I like the Gaspar a little better. This seems to lack some of the malt complexities that Gaspar adds to the flavors.

330ml bottle (One Pint Pub, Helsinki, Belgian Beer Weeks 2009)
Aerosol air freshener aroma - floral. Lively carbonation. Big hoppy taste, but also very alcoholic. Finish is children’s sweets - sherbet - and alcohol. Too boozy, and the hops stand out as a gimmick.

Bottle. This had been sitting in my fridge for over two weeks. I just open it and it erupted like a volcano! 4.99 for the small bottle and less than half left after gushing all over my computer desk, mouse pad and floor to the kitchen. Pours nearly all foam. After it has settled, there’s a cloudy bronze body left and sticky, spotty lacing on the glass. Aroma is sweet malts, candied fruit, spicy hops, light citrus and flowers. Strong yeast as well. Taste has bubblegum, Belgian yeast, flowers, spicy hops, candied fruit and sweet malts. Body is extremely bubbly to the point of being downright annoying. Finishes with more candied fruit, sweet malts, flowers, spicy hops, grassy notes and yeast. Wish I could have the non-explosive version....

Bottle@Home. Aroma of malts, grapefruit and grass. Golden/yellow colour, firm large great looking head, good lace. Light malty, bitter, grass, citrus. Medium body, light burn. Great aroma, looks beautiful but body and flavour a little disappointing compared to those.

(Bottled) Very hazy yellow with a large, frothy and lasting head. Aroma of pale malt and fresh, lemony-flowery-aromatic hops. Dry flavor with nice hop bitterness, yeast, and lots of aromatic, flowery-lemony hoppiness. Slightly more fruity and flowery with yeast. Light to medium body, quite refreshing with somewhat foamy carbonation. A solid, well-hopped summer beer from Alvinne.

This brew erupted from the bottle when I opened it, a good third of the contents transformed into a yellowish lava flow. By the time I got some into the glass, the beer showed a hazy yellow body with a bunch of particulates, all buried under a HUGE head. The aroma had a sweet pale malt base covered by lemon, grasses, and dried flowers. Medium-to-light bodied, it tasted of sweet malt, yeast, and an herbal/citrus/grassy bitterness, not overwhelming, but strong enought to dominate the flavor. It had a dry, peppery finish. Not a bad drink, except for the explosion.
Bottle from Binny’s Beverage Depot, Orland Park, Illinois

(33cl bottle) Hazy, golden colour with a huge blonde foamy head. Yeasty and slightly sweet malty aroma with lemon-fruity and herbal, slightly flowery hoppy notes. Moderately bitter flavour, medium bodied, slightly fizzy carbonation. Malty base with fruity and slightly vinous side effects, combined with a present herbal and slightly floral hop character; almost dry malty, subtle fruity and herbal hoppy finish with a rather harsh bitterness in the aftertaste. Lacks balance but is still pretty likeable and hops orientated, at least by Belgian standards (08.III.09).

draught at Pré-Zythos at Alvinne hazy beer, good beer nice taste light beer refreshing