Coney Island Albino Python

Shmaltz Brewing Company
Brewed at Olde Saratoga Brewing (Mendocino Brewing Co.)
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
San Francisco, California USA

Pale gold, small vanishing head. Citrus and astringently dry, especially in the finish.

Bottle. Head is initially small, frothy, white, mostly diminishing. Body is hazy light to medium yellow. Aroma is lightly malty (toasted grain), lightly hoppy (flowers), with notes of chemicals (household cleaning products), orange/lemon zest, spruce/juniper. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter, slightly unclean. Light to medium body, watery texture, fizzy carbonation. The spices yield a chemical-like odor that is not very pleasant. Could be worse, but it’s difficult to enjoy.

Light lemon and nutmeg in the aroma. lightly hazy yellow color with lots of carbonation and a large white head. Flowery taste in the beginning fading to a light malt finish.

22 oz bottle from Wine King in Wall. Pours a thin hazy light straw color with a large but quickly receding bubbly fizzy head. The thin body combined with hazy pale straw color makes this one look like a cross between dish water and stale beer. Aroma starts off with a combination of wet hay, earth and lemon juice. As the aroma develops spices begin to emerge, anise and mint over some grains.Palate is overly forced carbonation on top a watery body and leaves no aftertaste, which in this case is probably a good thing. Flavor is really lacking especially after all those....ahem...."interesting" aromas. What there is to taste is some weak boring cereal grains and a slight lemon aftertaste. I wasn’t expecting much from this beer but definitely more then this.

Bomber: Interesting beer. It pours a hazy, almost cloudy yellow body with a bubbly head. The aroma is kind of like spicy Christmas cookie dough spiked with gin and imbued with dirty pine needles. It’s "lager-ness" is almost lost under the heavy spicing - add anise, mint, and clove to the mix - and it develops an aspirin-like bitterness at the midpoint that lingers into the dry finish. Interesting.

Pat’s Liquors, Porter, IN

A 22 oz bottle with a cool label. the beer pours a slighty cloudy gold with a monster white crisp head. The smell is malt with some spices that i cant place. The taste is smooth with a nice hops and mint flavor. Good carbonation.

22oz bottle - Pours hazy light yellow with a big white head. It smells of spice and a touch of citrus. The flavor is heavily spiced with maybe nutmeg and clove among other spices. There’s also some orange zest in there. The light malt flavors are kind of buried under all that spice. The palate is light and bubbly. it’s certainly different and isn’t bad though I wish the beer under all that spice was more assertive.

Summary: The lager is almost lost amongst the spices. Aroma: Somewhat faint. Orange peel, vanilla, hay. Appearance: Hazy, pale straw-colored pour, enormous white head, abundant lace. Flavor: A mouthful of the suds is deliciously yeasty, but the liquid itself is all spices and very little beer. Cardamon, lemon zest, and general bitterness form the front; finishes yeasty. Palate: Generally watery, warming at the finish.