Farmer's Reserve Strawberry
(has 2 batches)
Almanac Beer Company in Alameda, California, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Hermitage Brewing CompanySour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production
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Score
7.29
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Sour ale aged in wine barrels with strawberries. A celebration of the summer harvest, this blond sour ale is loaded with Coastal Seascape Strawberries grown at Dirty Girl Farms in California’s santa Cruz Mountains. These delicious berries are swept by cool evening ocean breezes and drenched in warm daytime sun before being hand-picked and added to this tart and refreshing ale. Enjoy paired with classic charcuterie and summer salads.
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7/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draught @ Craft Beer Co - Islington, 55 White Lion Street, Islington, Greater London, England N1 9PP. [ As Almanac Farmer’s Reserve Strawberry ].Murky matt medium orange color with a small, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, moderate yeasty, tart, strawberry, vinegar. Flavor is moderate sweet and acidic with a long duration, tart, vinegar, strawberry, sweet berry - strawberry, baking yeast - dough, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20150813]
Tried
on 31 Dec 2015
at 09:25
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared at CBC Clerkenwell 10/9/2015. Many thanks to Daniel for this one. Aroma is baby sick, apricot, and caramac bar. Hazed golden yelow coloured pour with a fading white head. Flavour is composed of puckering crisp citrus sour, somewhat cheesy, tangy apricot and granny Smith apple, woody really dirty. Palate is sweet and sour, picking acidic, tangy woody, highish carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2015
at 12:20
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle bought @ Kihoskh. Pours hazy orange with a minimal offwhite head that doesn’t leave much trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is fruity with sourdough crackers, lemon juice, lime juice, frozen strawberries, white grapes, hay, minerals and lemon zest. Taste is sour, fruity and tiny funky. Mouthfeel dry, tart, mouth-puckering, tiny sparkling and light to medium bodied. Finish is sour with sourdough crackers, lemon juice, frozen strawberries, white grapes, yoghurt, moist wood, hay, minerals, lemon zest and hints of barnyard. Strawberries tend to be quite hard to handle but this beer does a good job providing a fairly tasty strawberry character on a mostly citric sour base. But too sour I guess which hampers drinkability. Enjoyable and solid but in no way amazing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2015
at 14:54
7/10
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Tried
on 12 Dec 2015
at 16:09
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
375ml bottle from Mikkeller Webshop
Bottled 17.02.15 - Pours dark orange with a bubbly white head. Aroma of apricot, tart fruits, hints of strawberries, sourness, rowanberries and wood. Taste is aggressively sour, tart and mildly funky with some rowanberries, apricot and very mild hints of strawberry jam. Finish is funky, sour and sweet with some lingering tartness, hints of strawberries. Pretty aggressive.
Bottled 17.02.15 - Pours dark orange with a bubbly white head. Aroma of apricot, tart fruits, hints of strawberries, sourness, rowanberries and wood. Taste is aggressively sour, tart and mildly funky with some rowanberries, apricot and very mild hints of strawberry jam. Finish is funky, sour and sweet with some lingering tartness, hints of strawberries. Pretty aggressive.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2015
at 08:04
6/10
Tried
on 07 Nov 2015
at 20:01
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
375ml bottle from Mikkeller webshop. Golden amber colour with a foam white head that quickly dissipates away and aroma of grain, funk, berry fruity, woody, oaky. Taste is sour, mellow fruity, strawberry hints, tangy citrus zest, barnyard, vinegar, drying, woody. Slick mouthfeel, medium bodied, soft carbonation, dry sour finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2015
at 12:55
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at home. Pours deep orange, nose is funky, oak, fruity, taste is dry, sour, wood, fruity, only very light strawberry.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Oct 2015
at 13:12
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, 7%. Hazy orange with small off-white head. Aroma is malt, baking yeast, tart, lemon, fruit peel and oak. Flavour is malt, baking yeast, little over carbonated, lemon, sour, notes of strawberry, lemon, notes of alcohol, medium dry, little sweet and a little bitter.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2015
at 10:40
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at Craft Beer Clerkenwell. Hazy pale yellow color, bright white head. Aroma of dusty and peppery berries. Taste is fruity and very softly sour. Tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Sep 2015
at 04:26