Malka Brewery – Fun Israeli Beer

After a group purchase from Golda Brewery organized for us by Gal, this time we tried Malka Brewery. Malka brewery makes 3 types of beer – Malka Bright, Malka Redhead and Malka Dark, each of which is unique and excellent. These beers are very easy going and work really great with the Israeli summer.

Malka Bright – This beer is of a type called “Saison” (Season in France),  a generic name given to pale ales with low alcohol percentage, a fact that makes this beer light and very refreshing. This beer was known as the beer farmers would take with them to the fields during the harvest.

Color – cloudy resin.

Nose – mainly citrus peel and freshness.

Flavor – citrus flavors accompanied by light fizzing that fills your mouth. Fun and bitter free beer.

This is the perfect answer for afternoon hours, when you get back from work and it’s to worm for wine and the thirst parches your throat.

Malka Redhead – This one is a PA which is one of my favorite beers. This style shows excellent balance between the bitter and all other flavors composing the beer.

Color – Beautiful sunset colors that matches this style of beer.

Flavor – Medium body with flavors reminding whole wheat bread.

Malka Dark – Stout beer. This style is known for its intense bitterness and full body. I usually don’t like Stout beers, however, this time I found a beer I can relate to and even enjoy.

Color – Coffee

Nose – Coffee

Flavor – Coffee, roasted wood and dark chocolate. The bitterness even though noticeable, is very pleasing.

Israeli breweries have proved once again that there is a future in this field, and that we have some brewers how know what they are doing, and produce some nice beer.

Bulgarian Wine – Is it so?

Today I received as a gift from my mother & father in low 2 bottles of Bulgarian wine. “I never knew they had a wine industry over there”, told me a friend, frankly neither did I. This is going to be an interesting experience.

Chateau Karnobat Cabernet Sauvignon 2008 & Terra Antika Mavrud 2008. The tour guide told them that the second wine (Mavrud) is a local Bulgarian verity, which is considered to be better then Cabernet Sauvignon, an amusing idea on its own. I plan on tasting these wines 2 weeks from now, so you can expect a followup post.

Weekly Wine Meal – 30.7

This week we decided to try a rose, which fits wonderfully to the Israeli worm summer days. I got to know Clos de Gat winery real good at a vertical tasting held at Michael Rab’s, I can defiantly say that this winery make some excellent wine.

Color: Refreshing bright red with orange tint.

Nose: Blossom with a bit of strawberry.

Pallet: Dominated by red grapefruit with saddle bitterness. Some marmalade can be noticed from time to time.

Overall a fun and light wine that vanished of the bottle quickly.

Rimon – Black Tag

I do believe that this wine requires a post on its own, mainly because it’s not that every day we get to drink a wine made purely on pomegranate. Rimon Winery (Rimon – pomegranate in Hebrew) produces several wines that are not made using grapes, a fact that is rather unusual in the world of wine, if we should even consider such a drink as a wine.Its been a few months now that one of their wines was sitting in my wine cabinet waiting to be opened.

This wine is interesting mainly because it is different in its levels of intensity. As I pooped the cork the room was immediately swept by a sweet intoxicating scent reminding of cherry liquor. In the glass the wine displayed a beautiful deep purple with brown shades. A wild nose revealing a mixture of sweet chocolate and tequila, a few more minutes and the scent saddled down showing a more delicate cherry and even some liquorice. Throughout the whole time I could file the alcohol sting in my nose. On the pallet intense cherry and acidity of a pomegranate and generous amount of chocolate. Firm tannin which goes stronger as time goes by.

Undoubtedly an interesting wine, different then what we, wine lovers, are accustomed to.