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5 - Excellent (must buy), Beer Reviews, Gose - Fruit, Omnipollo, Sweden

Omnipollo Bianca Blackberry Blueberry Marshmallow Lassi Gose

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Brewery: Omnipollo
Country: Sweden
ABV: 6%
Style: Gose – Fruit
Other Notes: Brewed by Omnipollo at De Proef Brouwerij (Belgium)

Brewer Description: (from website) Bianca Blueberry Maple Pancake Lassi Gose quickly became a favorite for us with its deep color, inevitably potent aroma and long lasting flavor. We furthered those characteristics by adding blackberries to offer a tiny dose of sharpness and lots and lots of marshmallows, milk sugar and rock salt to give it a soft, fluffy base on top of all those berries.

My rating: 5
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.63
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.6

Intro: A 440ml can, with a best before date of 10th September 2022. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: It was a very nice deep beetroot purple colour with a one finger purple head that had good retention and left nice lacing.
Aroma: Cream soda, blueberry, marshmallow, vanilla.
Taste: Sweet, with a light tart note. Cream soda, blackberry, blueberry, marshmallow, vanilla, forest berry jam.
Mouthfeel: Milkshake smooth, full bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: This is like sweetened cream soda with juiced forest berries mixed in. I like cream soda, and I like forest berries, so clearly this is my thing. Perhaps a bit on the sweet side, but the flavours work so well for me, that I might be able to ignore this. Yum!

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Gose - Fruit, Omnipollo, Sweden

Omnipollo Bianca Noa Strawberry Pecan Mud Cake Lassi Gose

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Brewery: Omnipollo
Country: Sweden
ABV: 6%
Style: Gose – Fruit
Other Notes: Brewed by Omnipollo at De Proef Brouwerij (Belgium)

Brewer Description: (from website) Two of our beers once again collaborated and made another high voltage number. We sourced really expressive strawberries with aroma and flavor reminding you of freshly picked summer strawberries to go well with the nutty aromatics of Noa Pecan. Contains milk sugar.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.16
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.9

Intro: A 440ml can, with a best before date of 10th September 2022. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A not too appetising sewage brown colour with maybe a slight purple hue, and a half finger beige head that dissipated fairly quickly, while leaving only sparse lacing.
Aroma: A strawberry jammy cream sponge cake put together with a chocolate nutty mud cake.
Taste: Sweet and sour, melted Neapolitan ice cream mixed together, with the tart and jammy strawberry and the sweet and nutty chocolate front and centre, and the milky vanilla in the background.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: I get why this might be a love/hate type of beer. Other than the appearance, which I didn’t think was appetising, the aroma and flavours were my kind of thing, and it was a good liquid dessert.

4 - Good (buy), American Milkshake Double IPA, Beer Reviews, Omnipollo x Monkish Brewing Co., Sweden

Omnipollo x Monkish Space Cookie

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Brewery: Omnipollo x Monkish Brewing Co.
Country: Sweden
ABV: 8.2%
Style: IPA – Milkshake Double

Brewer Description: (from can) This collaboration between Omnipollo and Monkish (CA) was first brewed back in 2018. The idea was to make a dank and pungent Double IPA with graham crackers. A 4:20 snack. Enthusiastically crafted at our church brewery on Sturegatan 41 in Sundbyberg, Sweden.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.14
My ratebeer.com rating: 4

Intro: A 440ml can, canned on 9th February 2022, so not as fresh as I would have liked, but the best before is 9th November 2022. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy orange colour with a one finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly but left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Fruity, pineapple, orange, citrus zest, pine, grass, with light mango notes.
Taste: Slightly sweet, strong citrus beginning, mandarin, orange zest, citrus rind, light tropical pineapple, mango, grass, pine, and a lasting moderately bitter finish.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, medium bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: It drinks easy with nice citrus and tropical fruit aroma and flavours, while there is also a nice sweet and bitter balance.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, IPA - New England / Hazy, Stigbergets Bryggeri, Sweden

Stigbergets Juleljus

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Brewery: Stigbergets Bryggeri
Country: Sweden
ABV: 6.8%
Style: New England / Hazy IPA

Brewer Description: (from can) X-Mas tribute NEIPA.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.01
My ratebeer.com rating: 3.9

Intro: A 440ml can with a best before date of 7th October 2021. Poured into a Lost Abbey teku glass.
Appearance: A hazy mango juice dark orange colour with a one finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly and left only sparse lacing.
Aroma: A bit weak overall, but there’s mango, pineapple, papaya, orange, citrus zest, grapefruit, with light grass notes.
Taste: Mango, passion fruit, papaya, pineapple, bitter, grapefruit, citrus rind, slightly spicy.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Another nice easy drinking NEIPA from Stigbergets with good tropical and citrus fruits. Loved the can design and artwork as well.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Gose - Fruit, Omnipollo, Sweden

Omnipollo Bianca Raspberry Maple Pancake Lassi Gose

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Brewery: Omnipollo
Country: Sweden
ABV: 7%
Style: Gose – Fruit
Other Notes: Brewed by Omnipollo at De Proef Brouwerij (Belgium)

Brewer Description: (from can) Raspberry Maple Pancake Lassi Gose.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.41
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.3

Intro: A 500ml can, with a best before date of 14th November 2020. Poured into a Holy Mountain tulip glass.
Appearance: A hazy murky dark beetroot purplish red colour with a one finger pinkish head that had good retention and left lots of nice lacing.
Aroma: Intense raspberry jammy, maple, vanilla, milkshake.
Taste: Sweet, raspberry jam, maple, pancake, vanilla, with a sour, tart, raspberry and lightly salty finish.
Mouthfeel: Medium to full bodied with moderate to soft carbonation.
Overall: The aroma was intense and near perfect, but the combination of sweetness and thick body made it a sipper. I note that there is maple in this, but still, I would prefer it to be less sweet. Despite all this, it was good.