Turbulent Illumination
Block 15 Brewing Company in Corvallis, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.79
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This unique 50/50 blend of young and old features stock from two Belgian-inspired beers, beautifully harmonizing familiar flavors and aromas to produce a complex blend that feels altogether new. Our young Belgian tripel, Illuminated, contributes classic Trappist notes of honey, golden raisins, and spice. Our lambic-inspired and spontaneously fermented wild ale, Turbulent Consequence, brightens the blend with citrusy acidity and flavors of orchard fruit, tropical fruit, and a rustic wild funk.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 5
Overall 4.5
500mL bottle, pours a cloudy dull orange with a small white head. Aroma has some candi sugar, champagne notes, and a bit of wild yeast in back. Flavour has some phenols—some burnt rubber in there—with light candi sugar, and champagne-like wild yeast. Smells fine, but the phenols disrupt this big time on the flavour. Not good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2026
at 06:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pale, with a bit of haze. I like the fruitiness here, with good peach, pear. On the palate, there's a bit of harshness to the base, phenols. There's some good elements here, but the base sour has some ferm imperfections.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2026
at 06:00
7.6/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500mL bottle. Pours murky dull gold with a white head. Light chewy malts, herbal notes, and a nice wild yeast character. Flavour has a spunky wild yeast character, nice herbal tripel character. Definitely some phenols here, but doesn't really damage the overall quality of the beer that much. Quite good.
Tried
from Bottle
from
The Beer Mongers
on 09 Jul 2026
at 02:08