Gnag Reflex
Against the Grain Brewery in Louisville, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.76
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Sour brown ale with red tart cherries. First we mash in a high gravity brown ale recipe with lots of pale ale, brown malt and oats. We then inoculate the resulting wort with a strain of Lactobacillus and let it work for 38 hours before boiling it, adding hops and fermenting with ale yeast. The resulting beer is tangy, malty, slightly sour and downright weird. But we don’t stop there, next we added over 10 pounds per barrel of Oregon red tart cherries, giving a nice sweet and fruity finish.
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6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Kentucky Fried Charleston Trip Beer #12. Draft at Shenanigans, Lexington. Pours a clear dark orange color with a medium sized creamy tan head. Decent head retention. Aroma of heavy spices, nuts, toffee. The taste is toffee, caramel, popcorn (unbuttered), cherries and a mild tartness in the finish. Medium bodied. A bit odd.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Feb 2014
at 19:59
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at brewery, Tart cherry, caramel malt, and light yeasty aroma., Chestnut with a small beige head. Tart cherry, roasty/toasty malt flavor., Medium body.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Nov 2012
at 20:53
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Sampled from the tap at FOBAB 2012. Pours a musty deep amber with a light brown heasd that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has some sweet chocolate and sourness with a bit of dark grains. Flavor has more roasted malts with sour cherries and a hint of chocolate. Didn’t come together for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Nov 2012
at 17:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at the source. Dark maroon color, scant head. Aroma of slightly sour prunes and raisins. Taste is softly sour dark fruit. Tasty.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Nov 2012
at 17:18
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft. Sour red cherry and chocolate malt aroma. Brown with small head. Sweet-tart cherry and mild caramel-chocolate malt flavor. Nice easy drinking beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Oct 2012
at 18:47