Hops N' Roses
Captain Lawrence Brewing Company in Elmsford, New York, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
7.45
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle - Sour peach with a bit of yeast. Cloudy gold with a thin head. Yeast and funky peach. Sweet and funky.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
375mL bottle, sent from Glouglouburp (thanks a lot, Dany), pours a cloudy, opaque dark-ish orange with a medium off-white head. Nose brings out lots of oak barrels, some brett, lots of the flowers and hibiscus, and some vinous qualities. Flavour brings out the wine barrels and oak upfront, followed by hibiscus, flowers, and some bretty notes. An oaky vinous tartness on the finish. The barrel aging is the more prominent component compared to the hibiscus, rose hops and elder flowers, though the latter additions certainly add some nice subtleties. Carbonation is on the higher side, without being champagne-like. Excellent beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Bruce’s new pad, big thanks to Leighton, 15/10/13. Hazed golden amber with a good sized off white head. Nose is light piss, dank tarte fruit, lemon dipped straw, bitter apricot. Taste comprises orange pith, earthy fruit tarteness, melon, tangy apricot. Medium bodied, crisp dry finale. Refreshing sour - decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
15th October 2013
Tasting at Bruce’s new pad. Thanks to Leighton for this tasty number. Hazy amber beer with a small pale cream coloured head. Palate is light, soft and airy, semi dry. Perfumey floralness and tangy fruity hibiscus. Lightly sour rose hips on the semi dry finish. Intertesting and tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
A hazed reddish amber ale with a thin mocha head. In aroma, a beautiful smell of flowers, hibiscus, roses, light Brett, musty, very nice. In mouth, a nice sour ale with cherries, boiled rose petals, hibiscus, light Brett, very nice. OttBottShare Oct 2013.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Bruce’s, thanks to Leighton. It pours murky golden-amber with a small white head. The nose is wood, vanilla, toasted coconut, floral, lactic and orange. The taste is crisp, melon, lactic, wood, spice, mild acidity, floral Granny Smith apple and lemon with a dry, tart finish. Medium body and fine, prickly carbonation. Quite delicate and well-balanced actually. Tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at Bruce’s in London. Thanks to Jay for trading me this one. Hazy gold with a creamy white head. Mild tangy clementines in the nose, touches of flowers. Decent funk in the flavor, light sweetness, hints of white bread, some oranges. Light bodied with fine, massaging carbonation. Dry finish with light sweetness, modest bitterness, some white grapes, lemons, oranges, slight herbs. Quite delicate. Very drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle: Poured a light dirty pink color ale with a quite large foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma consists of tart notes with light oak and some dominant notes of hibiscus. Taste is also dominated by tart notes with light oak notes with some dominant flavours of hibiscus with light dry Brett finish. Body is quite full with good carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Very well brewed with very good refreshing factor.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Aroma is fairly Brett forward with some nice barnyard funk and tropical fruit. The funk is balanced by a moderately strong floral note and some moderate phenolic spice notes. Light citrus character also present in the aroma. Pours a fairly clear golden amber, a really pretty color that is a blend of gold and red. Big pillowy white head that recedes quickly leaving a small white head on top and along the edges. Some medium lacing and no legs. Flavor starts out fairly dry with a pale malt and Brett character, similar to a Brett IPA in malt profile. There is a balanced barnyard funk present upfront as well. Mid palate the beer develops a sweetness with moderate floral and tropical fruit notes. The finish has a medium low bitterness as well as a medium low acidity which helps dry the beer out again. Phenolics are fainter in the flavor. Mouthfeel is medium light bodied with high carbonation. Low but present astringency and low alcohol warmth. Overall I enjoy the aroma, beginning palate and end palate, but the sweetness in the middle is a bit abrupt. It comes quickly and leaves just as quickly leaving you wondering why it was even there. The v bitterness is a bit to strong as is the astringency. A good beer but it needs a bit of fine tuning.