Good coffee and good beer! These are the two things that matter the most in my life. And that’s why when I travel, I carry both things in my baggage. It is extremely difficult to find craft beer in the tourist destinations and coffee that is available in the rooms and restaurants is garbage. So let’s see what was inside my bagpack…
SMALL STEPS Giant Leaps is a NEIPA, brewed in Bulgaria by Sofia Electric Brewery. This vrewery has become very popular in the last years and always delivers solid products to the customers. Hopefully this one will be another gem in their arsenal. But now, let’s see the label style first.
One of the good things of this hotel room was the abailability of various glasses in the room, but sadly there wasn’t any suitable for beer. I picked a small one… looked kinda cute to me… 😁
The label has no art on it… It is simple and clean. All that mattets here is the name of the beer and it has a reference towards the cosmic science and the landing on the moon. I don’t think that Neil Armstrong was carrying a neipa with him when he walked on the moon, but who knows… 🤷🏻
Let’s open the beer! Pssst…
The haziness is remarkable here - a true representative of the style. Looks juicy and fresh, color is yellow with a little bit of orange hints. If I make a fresh out of oranges it will probably look the same… without the foam, of coarse! Head looks very fine, white in color. Quite a seductive overall look. Time to try it!
Fresh, fresh, fresh… I love this quality of a good NEIPA, and this one is bot that sweet. It definitely has this faint citrus sweet vibes, but the artificial lactic taste is absent.
Citra, El Dorado and Galaxy hops make an excellent combo here. After Citra, Galaxy may be the second most delicious hop variety to me.
And look at this glass! This may be the single tiniest glass to drink beer from. It may be about 150 ml, which means that this 330 ml can will fill it more than two times! And two glasses of beer is always better than one!
The weather was on my sode. It was brilliantly snowing and the coziness of this hotel was feeling even greater now. But let’s not waste much more time, because the hot mineral water pools are waiting for me and my wife. Beer time is over!
Wish you a wonderful and warm weekend. See you really soon with another tasty craft beer.
Cheers and bye!
