Warsaw – Warsaw Beer Festival (Miastolas Brewery)

This is a brewery that I haven’t come across before, but they had some interesting sounding beers so I thought that I’d get a flight to experience their offerings. The service at the bar was personable, engaging and I liked that they suggested an order to drink the beers in which I always think shows an attention to detail.

OK, from front left to front right, and then back left to back right.

(i) Tańczący Wilk – a clean and malty beer with a bitter ending. Not my favourite beer style, but decent.

(ii) Dobry Wiewiór – a very dry stout, roasty with chocolate notes.

(iii) Kot Browarny – a really decent DIPA, hazy, a little dank, tropical, stonefruit and very agreeable.

(iv) Pachnący Motyl – you have to like lavender to enjoy this, it’s effectively an IPA with a heap of lavender. Luckily, I liked it.

(v) Cherry Wild Ale – I love sours, but I can find wild ales a little bit too much sometimes. However, this one wasn’t overly sour and it had lingering flavours of cherries and it didn’t have a chemical edge.

(vi) Coconut and Vanilla Imperial Baltic Porter – this was very boozy, thick and rich. Lots of coconut and vanilla flavour, a big ABV (10.4%) and a very drinkable beer. Not perfectly smooth as it was so punchy, but I quickly forgave that.

All told, I was very impressed with this little selection, I’ll look out for the brewery in future