Sagres (Portugal)
Aug. 31st, 2010 10:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
metawidgetTonight, I had Sagres beer from Portugal, thoroughly chilled in a wine goblet, with stuffed tomatoes.
Like Pietra, I figured this would be The Local Beer — not much description on the label, national emblem front and centre. As such, I was expecting a versatile, easy-drinking beer.
In the glass, it had a middling-thin persistent head and very small bubbles, and a light brassy colour. The first taste was mostly of malt and grain — more directly sweet and less fresh-cut tasting than Bleue, and doing much more on the tongue than in the nose. Sagres was consistent all the way down, and very easy to drink. It played nicely with the onions and curry powder in the stuffed tomatoes. I think it might be a bit less refreshing and more of a with-food sort of beer — even cold there was a slight heaviness to it that was nice, but better-suited to mealtime than right after performing great feats in hot August weather.
Like Pietra, I figured this would be The Local Beer — not much description on the label, national emblem front and centre. As such, I was expecting a versatile, easy-drinking beer.
In the glass, it had a middling-thin persistent head and very small bubbles, and a light brassy colour. The first taste was mostly of malt and grain — more directly sweet and less fresh-cut tasting than Bleue, and doing much more on the tongue than in the nose. Sagres was consistent all the way down, and very easy to drink. It played nicely with the onions and curry powder in the stuffed tomatoes. I think it might be a bit less refreshing and more of a with-food sort of beer — even cold there was a slight heaviness to it that was nice, but better-suited to mealtime than right after performing great feats in hot August weather.
