Beer – #1,080 – Kereru – Tommancho
It has much longer name: Kereru Tommancho Ancho Chilli & Smoked Necatrine Golden Ale. It was the Beer of the month from Kereru, new beers monthly, it’s been a delight so far.
unfiltered
This is in a 500ml bottle, a beer that is at 5.9 % ABV, so that’s 2.3 standard drinks in NZ. This Is around 177 calories a serve size.
to macho
A delicious golden ale made with heaps of bbq roasted nectarines and mildly spiced with fruity ancho chilli peppers.
So, What could possibly go wrong?
You open it to an lovely smokey note, already it should make you smile.
The pour is a deep orange with a lovely finger of form white head atop, a lovely looking beer this. Carries that smokey aroma to the glass too.
Initially it’s just a smoked note. Then you get pushing along right behind a lovely sweet cushion and washes over and finishes to a light bitter kiss at the back.
It’s difficult not to go tstraight back in, but I overcame that and did. A walloping sup. You get the same experience again, that smoked note sitting lower and having more a woody smoke note, but it’s still balanced brilliantly against that sweetness that this has.
Now the Chili – well I’m not an expert on this things but I’m not convinced that this couldn’t go a couple more notches and not do any damage to the end result, an and result that already crackingly good already without any intervention.
What’s good about this though is that the underlying Golden Ale is brilliant.
The whole is a lovely balanced beer that gives you a whole host of experience, that smokiness, a lovely sweeter middle of the nectarines, and I’m sure that there’s counterpoint with the Chilli it’s just that they are not the front and centre of this beer.
The pdubyah-o-meter rates this as 9 of its things from the thing. I really like this beer, and it made me smile. I really liked that smoked note, I really liked that the body, the mouthfeel, was fuller and offered sweetness to offset that woody smokey note, and I liked that this has that bitter kiss at the end. A lot to like.
The double dip review
- Where did I get it? The Kereru Monthly beer Club.
- Am I enjoying it? Yes.
- Would I have another? I’m going to confess to have had at leat 4 of these already 🙂
- Would I share with a friend on a porch and set the world to rights? Yes this is truely nice beer that should be enjoyed by anyone that enjoys a good beer.
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