What a nice feeling it is when you have a favorite place to drink beer in a city in another country.
I found my place in Szeged, and it's called Malata.
I've already made posts about that brewery, and every time I'm in Szeged, I'll definitely visit it because they change the beers on tap and I can never get bored 🙂
If I had a #BeerSaturday emblem, I'd stick it on the board with the hours. as a compliment to the choice of day, when this pub is open the longest.
Little has changed in the courtyard, these benches have been added for more beer drinkers, and the glass ball dominates, which is ideal for rainy weather.
At the entrance to the taps, the offer of food and drinks is written on the board, and as usual, when I pass under the flying pig, I head towards the boards with the offers and the sled where the taps are located.
The offer is diverse and it is difficult to try everything they have to offer.
That's why I take photos and spend a few minutes studying what they offer...
First at the tasting, I came across Turbid, NEIPA with 5.8% alcohol, New edition, Feher Nyul's brewery.
Very drinkable and refreshing beer, with tropical aromas and flavors, very high foam that holds well. It is not bitter and slightly carbonated.
I was thirsty and drank it down in a few gulps.
What does the producer say about this beer:
"Fehér Nyúl's core range NEIPA; creamy body, cloudy looks, citrusy-tropical fruit aroma. Thanks to the Falconer's Flight hop blend, all major US hop varieties play a part in this textbook example of the style.
It's a Pale Ale style. type NEIPA with 5.8% Alcohol, the ingredients of this beer are: water, malted barley, oat flakes, malted oat, malted wheat, hops (Falconer's Flight), yeast (Streamprunk YF-103)".
After I quickly drank the first one, it was the turn of the next one.
As my second beer I chose Only Memories, an IPA with 7.1% alcohol, produced by Brewyourmind.
BYM wrote about the beer:
"This beer contains our favorite hops (Citra and Nelson) with a simple malt profile. Double cold hopped beer".
Its label is DDH IPA.
With this double-hopped beer, tropical aromas and taste dominate, and the beer has a lot of malt, so it seemed like juice to me.
Beautiful color, high foam that lasts for a long time, it didn't refresh me like the first time.
I did not feel 7.1% aclohol.
Third I chose Jam 72, brews Mad Scientist, an IPA style with 7 2%.
The description of the brewery is:
"Our first ever flagship IPA which pretty much represents our idea of how an old school west coast style india pale ale should be like. Freedom, festival feeling and music composed into a beer. The huge amounts of american hops and the single all-malt base makes Jam 72 an exceptionally fragrant and full bodied beer.
Chosen as Brew of the Year 2016 in Hungary. It is an ideal choice for someone who is looking for something strong and unique. Tropical fruits, black peppercorn, pine and grapefruit aromas can be observed thanks to the combination of four of our favorite hops."
I'm glad I chose this beer.
Nice color, excellent foam, no malt as before, although it has strong citrus notes.
It refreshed me and put the taste of beer back in my mouth.
Just enough to decide on another, non-standard beer, which got me interested by its name.
as the last one, I chose One night in Dubai, Pastry imperial stout, with 9.4% alcohol, Brewery Horizont.
This was already challenging for me because of the amount of alcohol, so I took a half measure. "Is the glass half full or half empty", an eternal philosophical question.
This one is half full, because I should have drunk a beer with a higher amount of alcohol 🙂
Apart from my impression, I can't tell you anything about this beer, its creators from the Horizont brewery:
"What's the chocolate like in Dubai? We tasted a lot (purely for product development, of course) and came to the conclusion: no two are the same. The most exciting feature of this dessert is its crunchy texture, which would be quite difficult to recreate in beer.
However, we managed to add pistachio and sesame flavors to the sweet, recognizable chocolate flavor.
The end result is a batch we're proud of, as we were the first to brew a chocolate-inspired beer from Dubai and, of course, we made a gorgeous Imperial Pastry Stout. The alcohol content is 9.4%, which almost disappears behind the chocolate sweetness - before we know it, this night has flown by.
Ingredients: water, barley malt, oatmeal, maltodextrin, lactose, wheat malt, pistachios, sesame seed cream, hops, vanilla, yeast, pistachio extract".
Beer, sweet almost like chocolate, black like coffee, without foam, with a slight smell of pistachios, really reminds of Dubai chocolate.
The only difference is that there is no crunchy feeling under the teeth when eating chocolate, and this beer glides on smoothly, like a dessert for this #beersaturday tasting.
When I'm not where the biggest concentration of beer lovers from the #Beer community is, even if I'm not driving, I'm tasting a little more different beers.
This dessert knocked me out and I walked to the hotel tipsy, as is the order when drinking beer.
Happy Saturday and enjoy, dear beer lovers. Cheers!
