Comments on: Tasting Notes: BrewDog 2009 Prototypes

By: Ed Ashby

Ed Ashby — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:52:58 +0000

Chaos Theory – what can I say about this? First impression was Woah! What all is in this zingy hoppiness. I could just say hops, citrus, hop, citrus but more detail is required. So there’s orange, lemon, grapefruit, mango in there as well. Like a fruit cocktail soaked in beer. It’s all a bit overpowering on the taste buds though, so as lovely as it is, one is plenty. Per day. I’d happily go back to it another time or three.

By: Ed Ashby

Ed Ashby — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:43:28 +0000

Darren recently sent me over a bottle of Zeitgeist to sample and it is indeed a very fine black lager.
First up is the lovely chocolatey, slightly smokey, aroma. For me the flavour at the start was of very smooth milk chocolate, quickly followed up with a slightly bitter bite of dark chocolate which stayed through to the finish. I also detected a splash of some fruit in the background, like mango with some faint orange, but I didn’t find it as obvious as it appears to have been in the prototype.
Now that you’ve had the production version Darren, how does it compare with the prototype?

By: Darren Turpin

Darren Turpin — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:23:28 +0000

Howdo Leigh – well, I’m not sure Bad Pixie is going to make it into production after all… Chaos Theory won the comp, so that one’s being made out of this batch of three. But they might come back to the style at a later date, eh?

By: leigh

leigh — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:15:25 +0000

interesting stuff. I am perhaps overly fond or wheats, and was waiting for BrewDog to get in on this style. I’ll keep an eye out -thanks!

By: Darren Turpin

Darren Turpin — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:07:52 +0000

Yeah, kinda thought that might be a rarity… :)

By: Ed Ashby

Ed Ashby — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:18:04 +0000

In my experience wheat beers do tend to have quite a dry finish. Can’t say I’ve noticed any cheese though.