The past working week was full of challenges for me, with more stress and tangled situations. I needed some beer.
As Friday evening approached, I couldn't wait for the arranged meeting at my favorite restaurant, where I planned to reboot and relax with a few glasses of beer.
In the restaurant, along with an abundant amount of food (quality Serbian barbecue), I drank two Kapuziner wheat beers.
After dinner, since it wasn't time to go home yet, we continued to the city pub. I continued drinking wheat beers there, I just changed the producer. I drank wheat Paulaner, draft 0.5 and 0.33l and enjoyed the sounds of Planet animals band.
And all on a Friday night.
You're probably wondering, "So what does this have to do with #beersaturday now?
Aware that I went a little overboard with the amount, I promised myself that I wouldn't drink beer on Saturday, that is, that I wouldn't overdo it again, but that I would only taste one, in order to join the #beersaturday contest this week.
Walking on a nice sunny day, I came across a market with Robocraft products, as I have done a couple of times before.
Although I have several cans of Robocraft beer waiting for me in my refrigerator at home, which I bought the other day and didn't get to taste them, I chose a few more new ones.
This Saturday, I compared them and looked at their styles and compositions (and what was more important to me, which one has the lowest % of alcohol, because I wanted to not consume a large amount of alcohol for the second day in a row).
Tomato gose, a dark ale, which Robocraft Brewery called Turbo Knight, caught my attention.
The amount of alcohol is a pleasant 4.5%, and the ingredients announce an interesting and strange taste: water, barley malt, hops, sea salt, tomato juice and pepper.
Half beer, half tomato juice.
After pouring, the foam is very thin, and after a few moments, as soon as the first sip is taken, the foam disappears. The color is beautiful, reddish, like the tomato itself, but at the first sip, it does not promise either smell or taste.
Only after the first hit of taste evaporates from the tongue, the taste of tomato juice remains, with the pleasant aroma of pepper.
I don't know if you may have seen my post where I wrote about not liking the combination of tomato juice in soups/stews? I think I have concluded that it is the same case with beer.
I like beer, I like tomato juice, but in a package, the two do not come together in a taste that suits my palate.
I wouldn't drink it just to keep the interesting aftertaste of tomato juice in my mouth. In my opinion, Robocraft has a lot of other interesting styles that I would choose over this Tomato gose.