6.2

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

Early rating from Beer Buddy app

7.1

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

Bottle: Cloudy amber with a frothy beige head. Fruit, caramel, funky aroma. Taste is tart and acidic....old, soft apple and caramel malt. Slightly bitter and funky....pretty nice.

7.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. Barnyard yeast, apple, caramel malt, and hay aroma. Cloudy dark amber with giant light tan head. Lightly sweet apple, caramel malt, and moderately bitter dry grass flavor. Mildly lightly funky yeast finish. Nice.

7.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle from Boise Coop. Bottle opens with a loud pop and pours out with a huge head, clumpy head and lacing throughout. Acetic aroma, but taste and finish is where it gets interesting. Spicy notes, peppery almost, flowery, and even the malt comes through. Biting, snappy finish.

8

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

750 mL bottled 6/11/14, drunk 6/4/15, 1 year old
Fantastic pour as always from Victory; big fluffy white head is immensely well-retained and tops a deep golden liquid that is heavily carbonated with tiny bubbles and shows a great clarity and light sediment behind in the bottle.
Fresh lilacs in the nose showcase the hop and brett acid interplay. Perfumey and aromatic as all hell, with all sorts of floral notes beyond the lilacs and a strong lime skin and lighter stone fruit playfulness. Malts reveal a seemingly well-attenuated light caramel character, with biscuit and honey notes as well. No alcohol or faults that I can find. Maybe just a touch of sharp alcohol as it warms.
Glad I waited a year on this one....man, this stuff is still hoppy. In fact, my girlfriend thought it was still too hoppy, though I suspect she was mistaking some of the brett acidity for the hop acids. Certainly some residual pine can still be felt, as well as light citrus, but it blends in to the lime-like brett character pretty well, both elements sharpening each other’s flavors. Tremendously carbonated still, with no sign of oxidation. Every sip is well balanced between the moderately sweet, soft caramel malt flavors and the sharper, perfumey brett and hop notes. As it warmed, it grew, perhaps, a bit sluggish on the palate, the malt turning out to be just a tad too sweet. I imagine this must be necessary to balance the beer while young, as this thing must be a hop assault young, if it’s still this hoppy after one year. At $10 bucks a 750mL and available everywhere, you can’t argue with the delightful brett flavors here even if the beer does come off a bit messy at points (though far more refined with a year of age on it, I’m sure).

6.8

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

[3/2/15] Draught at Brouwer’s Cafe in Seattle. Nice deep red-amber color with a beige head. Aroma of malt, caramel, funk and fruitiness. Sweetish flavor with malt, caramel, mild funk, hops, some fruitiness and a bitter finish. Medium-bodied. Decent.

7.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle dated 11 June 2014.
This was poured into a snifter.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy to bronzed and slight cloudy orange to brown color with a one finger white foamy head that became slightly foamy to an extent and died with a slight amount of bubbles glossing to the sides of the glass. Still, there’s lacing running here and there along the glass.
The smell had a nice sweet to spicy to floral to sticky fresh citrus note driven into a deviously suspicious yet subtle yeasty to peppercorn combination.
The taste took all of those previously mentioned flavors to combine and flavor sweet and lightly spiced. There’s a nice light spicy floral aftertaste leading to a dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was there and displayed a decent amount of carbonation on my palate.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good Sour/Wild ale to me because I find it to be mostly balanced and not overbearing in the sour/funky department. I’d have again.

6.9

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

On tap at Breukelen Bier Merchants, Brooklyn. Pours hazy amberish with white head. Brett and fruit in aroma and flavor. Spicy. Dry finish.

6

Definitely citrus and some pine. Floral and a bit funky. Tangy. Good beer.

6.6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

750 ml bottle purchased at Julio’s about 3 months ago, maybe should have gotten to it sooner. Copper color pour with lasting head. Aroma is mango, tangerine, mild Bretty yeast and soft malt.

Flavor is all about the yeast with some fruity hints and light shoe leather notes. Has a sweet aftertaste with the Bretty shoe leather lingering after the sip. Medium in body with a dry texture across the tongue. The yeast comes across really well, For me it’s only so-so.