Warsaw – Warsaw Beer Festival (Recraft Brewery)

Recraft is another Polish brewery that I haven’t encountered before, but it looked like they had some interesting beers going on, not least the tiramisu dessert pastry ale.

The other options, all bright and tempting.

I’m liking that the easy way to resolve what beer to have is to just have all of them. From back left to back right, then front left to front right:

(i) Juicy Sour Series: Brzoskwinia X Banan X Jabłko – fruited sours are always a good place to start and this one had peach, banana and apple. It’s a smooth beer, like a lightly soured Appletiser, although the banana and peach were more subtle. Very agreeable though.

(ii) Fruit Berliner Weisse – I had to Google what a chokeberry is, but it’s in this beer…. It’s quite a light and thin beer, although the ABV is only 3.5%, more of a palate cleanser than anything else.

(iii) Tiramisu Dessert Pastry Ale – this is the beer that I had seen that had tempted me and it didn’t disappoint. I very much like pastry sours so this is my sort of beer. There’s coffee, toffee, slight chocolate and it all combines to be like a liquid dessert. It even moved into the territory of being slightly decadent….

(iv) Hoppy Family – a punchy beer, but very hoppy and perhaps too hoppy, but still entirely drinkable.

(v) Sprau Floe El Dorado NEIPA – another very hoppy beer, but smooth and stonefruit taste to it.

(vi) Polish Hazy IPA Lubelski x Książęcy – coconut and creaminess, something of a hazy delight.

(vii) Chmelowy Most – a Pilsner isn’t my preferred beer style, but it’s clean and light.

(viii) Wielka Szycha – same as the previous one, this is clean and inoffensive, but not something I’d tend to veer towards.

Anyway, this is yet another brewery I’m going to have to look out for in the future. I preferred their sours, but the brew some interesting beers across numerous beer styles.