The Mandarin didn't feel particularly pronounced. The rest of the beer didn't feel solid enough for me to really enjoy this when the Mandarin doesn't feel truly featured.
Dry, grapefruit, smacking me in the face!
Also, only with Jet would I walk into a tap room in 2018 and find "Kiss The Girl" and "Part of Your World" playing.
Another stylistic oddity. I think I've learnt not to really trust any of the descriptions. This ale has a thin character, a caramel opening and a finish that turns nutty and has more than a little bit of drying, wood resin in the flavor. In a dubbel I look for some candi sugar and molasses character and didn't find it in this, but it was still a decent beer.
A sweetish stout with very little bitterness or complexity, and very smooth on nitro. Not going to stick in the mind, but at least it was stylistically spot on and very easy to drink, so it wins the flight.
Does not taste like a German wheat at all - more like a wit (because of the faint grapefruit tartness) or a kristallweizen (because of the musty wheat funk that had me thinking luncheon meat).
Smells like a spicy saison, with a predominantly clove / banana / cucumber flavor. None of the flavor components really rose above the others, and I found myself wanting a whole lot more more cucumber.
Not like a Kölsch at all, in my mind. More like a very dry session IPA with a bit of bubblegum and a hard bitter finish. Also, the yeast character seemed more Belgian to me.