ZENNEGASH / ゼネガッシュ

スタイル	Wheat / ウィート - Wit Beer / ウィットビール
ABV	5.7%
IBU	-

4.2★★★★☆

ポートランドの Allagash Brewing Company との2度目のコラボレーション。アメリカとヨーロッパの両方のホップをドライホッピングした(アラガッシュが得意とする)ウィートビール。美しい濁りあるブロンドカラー。パパイヤや白い果樹の花を思わせるアロマ、ブレット酵母由来の古いレザーや動物のような野生的な風味。小麦由来のほんのりとした酸味とクリーミーな口当たり。パパイヤだけでなく、桃のような味わいとフィニシュには黄色いストーンフルーツやメロンを思わせます。

ZENNEGASH is a collab with our friends -and excellent brewers- of Allagash Brewing Company from Portland, Maine in the USA. Little side note: the first ever collab we did was with them in 2011: the Very Spéciale Belge.
We didn’t have to look far to find a name for the beer. We simply combined the two rivers we both owe our names to: the Allagash river, and our good old Zenne!
This time we brewed a wheat beer (the specialty of Allagash!), dry hopped with both American and European hops. We made two versions: one bottled version, refermented with Brett-yeast, and one clean version in kegs.

The bottled version:
A blond beer, beautifully veiled thanks to the large amount of wheat used. In the nose we primarily smell papaya, mixed with the scent of white fruit tree blossoms. Because of the refermentation with Brett yeast, we also get the typical aromas of cider and leather. When we drink the beer, we get a very slight acidity due to the wheat and a lovely creamy texture. Once again we taste papaya, but also peach and hawthorn. In the finish there’s yellow stone fruit and Galia melon. The alcohol percentage is at 5,7%.

The kegged version:
At sight, she looks exactly the same as the bottled version. But in the nose, we get an explosion of acacia flowers and especially of fruit: a mix of tropical fruits, yellow stone fruit, quince compote and melon. We have the same freshness of the wheat and the same slight acidity with a creamy texture. We can already smell summer!