Warsaw – Warsaw Beer Festival (Browar Sarabanda)

Next up for me at Warsaw Beer Festival was Browar Sarabanda, who I haven’t encountered before but they had some interesting looking beers. The service was immediate, friendly and warm, they seemed keen to engage about their options that they had. Their tasting set changes during the festival, but it’s clearly visible on the left-hand side.

Ignoring their numbering, from back left to back right and then front left to front right:

(i) Serenity – a very hoppy little arrangement. A little rough and ready, but there’s always a place in life for a beer like that. As long as it’s not rough like the bloody awful generic lagers are….

(ii) Black Celebration #3 – this isn’t holding back. Rich, decadent, heavy and maybe a bit brutal. Chocolate and coffee flavours, but subtle this is not. An adult’s beer.

(iii) Currant the Black & Red – lots of berry flavour going on here. A nice level of sourness, very agreeable. And premiered at this beer festival 🙂

(iv) Mango Passion Delight – not as rich as other mango pastry sours that I’ve had before. It’s a bit tart to be honest, but there’s a nice lingering mango flavour. There’s a bit of lime or similar in there as well.

(v) Tantalus #2 – very heavy grapefruit flavour from the hops, it’s a bit thin and not one of my favourites, but still a credible beer.

(vi) Cofeecolus – I can’t recall having had a coffee IPA before so marks for innovation here as I thought it worked well.

This is another brewery that I was surprised and delighted by, so I’ll look out for their beers in the future.