Careful With That Fruit Salad, Eugene
Beachwood Blendery in Long Beach, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Cascade BrewingLambic Style - Fruit Regular
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Score
7.01
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Poured from a 750 ml, 2017 vintage bottle. Aroma is fairly fruity with lots of pluot and plum note with lighter guava and lemon notes. Hints of coconut that becomes a bit more prevalent as it warms. Light grain and alcohol notes with hints of oak. Pours a slightly hazy, copper-gold with a small, thin, white head that recedes quickly to the edges and disappears. No lacing and faint legs. Flavor is fairly acidic and sharply so, but perhaps less so than the other variant of this beer. Light sweetness and light grain notes. Moderate bitterness and light alcohol notes. Medium light fruit notes of pluot, plum and guava. Hints of lemon, green grapes and coconut. Light oak notes. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, a decent beer but not an impressive one. The age has certainly washed the fruit out a bit, but this is pretty acidic. A bit of an odd pithy, bitter note in the finish.
Earlier Rating: 11/19/2023 Total Score: 3.4
Poured from a 750 ml, 2017 vintage bottle. Label says fruit is apricot, nectarine, guava and Jasmin rice. Aroma is moderately fruity with notes of apricot and nectarine. Lighter notes of lemon and tart guava. Hints of grain and oak. Light alcohol notes. Pours a fairly clear, brilliant gold color with a small, thick, white head that recedes quickly to the edges where it lingers for a bit. No lacing and small legs. Flavor is rather acidic and fairly sharp with light grain notes. Medium low bitterness and light alcohol notes. Moderately strong underripe, tart, nectarine, apricot and guava. Hints of oak in the finish behind the lingering acidity. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. Low, but present acidic astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall, an alright beer and my fault for sitting on it this long. The fruit is still pretty upfront, but has likely faded and lost some brightness. Very sharply acidic. Not really any funk notes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle - Soured apricot and light funk. Cloudy orange with a small white head. Soured grape and peel with a dry finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750ml bottle at Kump's during non-Belgian lambics tasting. Release 2017. Pours a hazy golden with a weak white head. Aroma is funky, barn-yard, fruity. Similar taste. Good one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
750mL bottle, pours a cloudy opaque yellow with a small white head. Aroma is pretty subtle on the tropical fruit - I guess the rice dries much of it out. There is a bit of funk. Flavour is more expressive on the tropical fruit, with guava, apricot and nectarine, moderate pith, and light bitterness. Not a whole lot of funk. The tropical al fruit is rather subdued - could use more punch. Good beer overall, but leaves something to be desired.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Cloudy golden color small white head. Plum aroma. Taste is dusty funky fruity cobwebs and attic corners. Very tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle - pours orange gold white head - nose/taste of coconut, guava, plum, cotton candy, oaky funk and apricot/stone fruit - medium body
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Tap at Beachwood Blendery, Long Beach. Colour is cloudy orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, berries and some sourness.