Coney Island Albino Python - Shmaltz Brewing, (Saratoga Springs, NY)
On the bottle:
“Shmaltz brewing company reveals a most charming, attraction: the sensual dance of provocative hops & spices entwined with a sumptuous & elegant malt body. Taste the rapture. Surrender to temptation. Seduce and be seduced. This white lager is pasteurized but may have a dusting of yeast. Agitate gently before serving. Indulge your inner beer freak!”
My Notes:
Tasting notes: pours slightly hazy grapefruit peel pink/orange, almost zero head, minimal ringed retention, ultra micro CO2, slow-moving bubbles. Very muted nose of nothing when chilled, at around 17C there are lots of malts. Predominantly the hop+breadiness+honeyed malts of a lager up front, intertwined with traces of cinnamon-ginger-cloves, cane sugar 3/10 sweetness in the mids. Finishes with a very soft slightly dry bitterness+aniseed. Medium high complexity, low-medium depth, medium length, medium-high carry. This beer has superb balance and transitions.