Review: Bianca Road Brewing Company

As we are yet again in the middle of another lockdown week, I thought it was time for another truly outstanding review. Do let me know if you find any.

Before you go looking though, I thought we could spend another 30 seconds to an hour together talking about yet more beer I have decided to try out during my time in quarantine. This time round I stumbled across the Bianca Road Brewing Company.

This is one of those breweries that I am ashamed to say I have never heard of before, so was only too willing to test out a few of their core beers to see if they were up to scratch. Before I get to the beers though, time for a classic history lesson.

They were founded in 2016 after the founders were inspired by a cycling trip from San Francisco to Miami. Not going to lie, after cycling that distant, the first thing I would be wanting is a decent pint, and a lay down.

Superb history lesson over, now onto the first beer: Long Play IPA (3.6%)

Before even taking a sip, I knew this would be a great beer for me. Just looking at the can, it was clear that this would be a very sessionable IPA, which are two big ticks in my book.

When it came to the aromas and flavours, this beer certainly would be one for the beer garden. It was light, hoppy, refreshing and smelt so fruity, almost like tropical juice, but it also had a nice bitter kick at the end.

Sadly the can didn't have any hop information, so I turned my attention to the good old internet to help me find out what varieties of the beautiful green buds they put in here.

To my absolute delight I learnt that this beer has the one and only mosaic hops within. I knew I recognised the smell, oh I am good. With some simcoe and cascade hops thrown in for good measure, this is certainly a beer I will be going back to.

Next up from today's trio is their Tropical IPA (5.3%)

This is a beer that began with slight disappointment. I honestly thought that this was going to the first beer since beginning this blog that I actively disliked, which thankfully proved to not be the case.

After giving it a couple of extra sips, the flavours then began to shine through. There was a beautifully sharp, bitterness to it, which I know may not sound too appealing, but once you try this beer you will get exactly what I mean.

It became fruity and, unsurprisingly, tropically. It's a slow burner, but one that is worth the wait.

Now with my final beer, I took a real gamble here with a raspberry and sour cherry flavoured beer known as Hard Soda (4.5%)

This is way out of my comfort zone here. I am not a huge fruit beer drinker, especially those that are described as sour, but I thought these are the times to take risks and try something different.

The colour is very vibrant red, which is to be expected given the description, but obviously is not your typical beery colour. It was also beautifully clear, kind of like cherryade, yet this is alcoholic cherryade.

The cherry does come through very strong on the nose, and then once you taste it, comes through very strongly through your taste buds. You do however need to allow your face to screw up a couple of times whilst you get used to the sour taste.

As someone who absolutely loves those sour cherry sweets from a bag of Tangfastics, this beer was amazing, and the perfect ending to my trio today.

There we have it, the end of my third review and it was hopefully third time lucky. Not entirely sure what for, but we'll just have to wait and see.

At the moment it's looking like some lockdown restrictions may be lifted over the coming weeks, so fingers crossed we will all be reunited once again in some way in the not too distant future.

Until then though, as always, stay safe and stay home. Cheers!