Indigo Child.
Wild Beer Co in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England 🏴
Collab with: Birrificio ToccalmattoSour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production
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Score
6.65
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The Rainbow Project 2014
The Wild Beer Co + Toccalmatto + Indigo
7 UK breweries paired with 7 breweries from around the world and paired with one of the 7 colours of the Rainbow, creating the theme of the brew.
The Result….
Indigo Child
This gooseberry sour beer is the offspring of an English and an Italian Parent, combining flowers, fruit and Somerset magical yeast.
Launching at Beavertown Brewery on 13th September!
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Stuu (34525) reviewed Indigo Child. from Wild Beer Co 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Keg at salthorse. Pours deep purple, nose is blackcurrant, funk, toffee, taste is sweet fruit, dry, toffee.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Indigo Child. from Wild Beer Co 9 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 330ml. [ As Wild Beer / Toccalmatto Indigo Child ].Gusher !!Clear medium to dark amber orange color with a large and quick, frothy, fair lacing, fully diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, barnyard, funky, light caramel, light hoppy. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate acidic with a long duration, tart, barnyard, flowers, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. [20141204]
Zlotta (9960) reviewed Indigo Child. from Wild Beer Co 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
0.33 l bottle, shared by markoijelena, thanks! Clear, golden amber with a thin, white layer. Funky, sourish-fruity aroma of lemon, rhubarb, gooseberry, barnyard and oak. Medium sour, fruity, rather funky taste of lemon, rhubarb, gooseberry, barnyard and oak, followed by a medium long, rather dry finish. Medium body, spritzy and slightly astringent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Very nice! Not too sour, pleasant brett funk, great balance.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Indigo Child. from Wild Beer Co 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
The indigo version in the 2014 Rainbow Project, an interesting artistic initiative trying to bring synesthesia into beer; this one is apparently a collab of Wild Beer Co and Toccalmatto. Thin, snow white head leaving a stable, moussy rim on the edge of the glass, colour is (luckily, perhaps) not indigo but a lightly hazy pure golden blonde with subtle greenish hue and calm sparkling. Aroma is sour ale all the way through, with impressions of gooseberry, starfruit, sour yoghurt, butter, stale sweat, rotting hay, wet cardboard, freshly fermented farmland, mouldy grapefruit, salted tomato, cucumber, white bread dough, chalk, field flowers, wine vinegar and, sorry, old urine, though fortunately this stench fades away completely after a while. Estery, crisp onset, explicit sourness with fruity sweetness woven into it, unripe stonefruit, green apple, lemon and kiwi as well as a subtle umami accent of dried seaweed, medium carbo, lemony acidity paired with a deeper, more yoghurty, lactic tartness lasting for a long time and drying the mouth; these esters and acids are well-supported by a supple, soft, lightly bready and lightly grainy malt backbone. Apart from the drying sourness in the finish, there is also a brief but substantial, earthy hop bitterishness, clashing a bit with the sourness; the initial ’stonefruit esters’ keep prevailing though, along with a kind of chalky, very lightly salty aftertaste. Some juicy, soaked bread-like malt sweetness remains as well. Somewhat weird even for a Wild Beer; refreshing and spritzy in terms of pure flavour, but like many other products from this brewery, I fail to see the point when the aroma yields so many uninviting odours. After having enjoyed a great Lindemans geuze in which the different acids and esters are in perfect balance, this cannot but come as a bit of a disappointment, I’m afraid. Apart from that, I also fail to see anything ’indigo’ in this, but that’s just me, I guess. I will probably never fall in love with this sour ale company...
marius (4938) reviewed Indigo Child. from Wild Beer Co 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Hazy golden beverage, with almost no head. Smells sour, like vinegar, unripe grapes, cider and a hint of grapefruit. Some barnyard funkiness. The taste is sour, but not as much as the smell would suggest, with notes of vinegar, apple cider, grape skin along with yeast and lemon. Medium to light body, medium carbonation and a mild sour aftertaste.
Nijstrom (1542) reviewed Indigo Child. from Wild Beer Co 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Notes of apples, flowers, funk, barnyard, fruits, citrus and gooseberries. Somewhat sweet and mildly sour and bitter. Quite dry finish.
CraftBeerNick (11005) reviewed Indigo Child. from Wild Beer Co 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home, 10th October 15. Looks amazing, like a radioactive liquid, weird. Aroma is floral, sour, sharp apple skin. Taste is elderflower, sour funk, reminds me of a very poor impression on Cantillon Mamouche. Not great
Idiosynkrasie (17851) reviewed Indigo Child. from Wild Beer Co 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
330ml bottle. Slightly cloudy, yellow-ish golden colour with small to average, frothy, diminishing, minimally lacing, white head. Sour-ish aroma, hints of vinegar, mustard, brine, dill, a sweet-ish honey-like counterpart. Taste is sour, seemingly more infection than intention. Nope.
TBone (30139) reviewed Indigo Child. from Wild Beer Co 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle at Viking Grace. Hazy yellow color, tiny off-white head. Sour, grapey, fruity aroma. Medium-bodied. White-wineous, grapey and tart. A bit dry, papery too. To white-wine lovers.