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Meantime, Chocolate Beer (England) 
A beer brewed with "chocolate malts and real chocoalte" according to the back label, this is beautifully packed in a mini-Dom Perignon bottle, and pours a very dark ruby/mahogany colour with a high-rise coffee-coloured head. On the nose there is plenty of milk chocolate and toasty, roasted plum and dark fig fruit. On the palate it is surprisingly light and crisp given the alcohol and depth on the nose, and the flavour veers towards heavily roasted grain rather than pure chocolate, with a sugar-puff character and certain sweetness in the finish. Decent, though doesn't live with Brooklyn's chocolate beer, my ultimate example of this style. 6.5% ABV, 33cl, �1.29, Sainsbury's. | |
Meantime, Organic Pilsner (England)
In Meantime of Greenwich's new Champagne-style bottle, I have to say this Pilsner is a terrific expression of the style. Brewed with organic Perle and Halletauer hops, it pours a nice medium gold with a moderate white head, and has a beautifully clean, hop and delicately toasty nose, with plenty of fresh lemon and grassy notes. On the palate it is medium-bodied and nicely textured, but with a razor-sharp edge of incisive chicory bitterness that tingles on the tongue and adds an edge to leafy, pithy grapefruit flavours. Delightful, grown-up stuff. 5.4% ABV, 33cl, �1.79, Onlyfinebeer. | |
Meantime, Sainsbury's Bavarian Style Wheat Beer (England)
This beer is brewed in London by Meantime Brewing for Sainsbury's supermarket's "Taste the Difference" range using wheat, hops and yeast imported from Germany. It pours a pale, cloudy yellow with a thin but creamy white head. The nose is an extremely authentic amalgam of banana, lemon and cloves with fine perfumed aromatics and good depth. On the palate it is smooth and full, with a slightly smoky edge to lively spice and citrus flavours. There is an edge of slightly steely, tight, hoppy flavour, in a delicate and very good wheat beer. 5.0% ABV, 66cl, �1.99, Sainsbury's.  | |
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