Telegraph Brewing Gypsy Ale

Gypsy Ale

 

Telegraph Brewing in Santa Barbara, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Sour / Wild Beer Regular Out of Production
Score
7.38
ABV: 8.0% IBU: - Ticks: 7
Inspired by the exuberance of the Romani Gypsy culture, Telegraph Gypsy Ale celebrates the restless and adventurous spirit in all of us. We brew it with rye, unmalted wheat, and locally grown plums. Then we ferment it with Brettanomyces while listening to traditional Gypsy tunes. It's wild, it's unique, it's delicious. So go ahead, stray from that well-trodden ground you are following, grab a bottle, and dance along a crooked path. Opa!
 

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7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draft @ Beachwood BBQ and Brewing, Long Beach, CA. Pours a slightly hazy golden pale amber color with a small white head. Has a fruity sour tart funky yeasty bretty plum aroma. Fruity sour tart bretty plum flavor. Has a fruity sour tart plum finish.

Tried from Draft on 18 May 2018 at 13:45


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

750 c&c from Bine & Vine. Pours hazy golden copper with a slight, transient white head. Aroma is very fruity, fairly intense, yet not really strong in one particular or another. Quite nice, but different. With a deep inhale something like tart plum surfaces. Med body. Flavor is tart, has an aspect suggesting red wine, moves on to tart plum and I think has enough brett to be detectable. It is quite different in flavor, and that may be the rye. Not able to parse out rye spice, but I can believe it’s part of the mix. Very tasty, and not overly strenuous on the senses. A little horseblanket comes thru in the finish.

Tried from Can on 05 Dec 2014 at 16:19


8.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

At YNWA, Kolding. Cloudy orange with a small white head. Funky aroma with lots of lambik character, and notable plums. Sweet and tart fruity flavour with plums, a hint of band-aid and tannin and some funk. A bit sterile, otherwise it’s quite lambik-like overall

Tried on 11 Aug 2013 at 08:29


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

750mL thanks to noodleuser. Poured a hazy orange-brown color with notes of a white wispy head. Aroma is some notes of tartness, sour almost? Flavor is tart sweetness. Citrus is in there. Pretty drinkable!

Tried on 17 May 2013 at 23:55


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle courtesy of noodleuser, thanks! Cloudy pinkish amber color, white head. Aroma of prunes, summer fruit, stonefruit. Taste is bittersweet plum preserves, dryish finish. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 11 May 2013 at 13:27


7.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle. Dirty amber-brown beer with a tan head. Acetic and red fruit aroma. Acetic flavor with tart/sour notes, red fruit, and lemon. Medium bodied. Acetic and tart/sour notes with red fruit, lemon, and earth.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Mar 2011 at 17:19


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle, Batch 57. Pours with a hazed amber brown body and a resilient bone colored head that leaves great lace. Aroma is quite nice. It features horseblanket, a nice phenolic spice note, light sourness/lactic acid, plums, figs, prunes, vanilla, rye, jam. Vinous. Really nice and bright aroma. Flavor is slightly lactic, funky, and very fruity, wine notes, plums, cherries, tons of phenolics. Nice and dry with a sharp fruitiness in the finish. Lively bubbles. Really well done brett beer!

Tried from Bottle on 30 Sep 2010 at 19:57