Bedele Gold Label Special Beer

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Pours very pale gold to straw with wafer thin bright white head. The aroma is nice thick malt sweetness, grainy malts and corn. The taste is sweet sugary flavor notes with mild corn and faint grain in the background. The finish is thin and watery with a hint of metal.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

~Squatty brown bottle, label faded a bit, but featuring a monkey of some sort. Both English and Ethopian lettering. Had this at The Brickskeller, in Washington DC.

I was in a place that can rightly boast of having a *ton* of beers from around the world, and was looking for something different from my norm. This caught my eye, and was given a thumbs up from the bartender, so I gave it a jog around the block.

Golden, with maybe some hints of darker (redder?) highlights, with a nice rocky head of foam. Minimal lacing.

Fairly calm in the nose. No off-aromas, maybe some hints of some basic (Saaz?) hops. Maybe.

Clean and refreshing ion the mouthfeel, and rather tasty, really. Not as sharp and as angular as I normally prefer Lagers (esp. of the Dortmunder variety, which I think is dead-on for this beer), but still, an appealling quaff, for sure.

This one went quick -- seemed like I was at the end of the glass quite soon. Or maybe it was because I was buys watching the sports ticker at the bottom of the ESPN channel, as my Padres choked to the A's in extra innings.

But anyway, for being my very first beer from Ethiopia -- and for a mid-session palate cleanser -- this was rather nice, all told. A welcome change from the norm, indeed.
Cheers,
//TB