Volume 02: Bufo
Wunderkammer Biermanufaktur in Craftsbury Common, Vermont, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Hill Farmstead BrewerySour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Series Out of Production
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6.74
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mcberko (47456) reviewed Volume 02: Bufo from Wunderkammer Biermanufaktur 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at Belmont Station Bier Cafe, pours a hazy golden orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out all sorts of earthy sticks, fungal notes, leaves and saison yeast. Flavour is just bizarre, with fungal notes, sticks, leaves and earthy notes. There are some light citrus notes and saison yeast elements, but they're buried beneath the mushrooms and other strangeness.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle - pours gold white head - nose and taste of mushroom, earthy unami, lemon, funk - medium body
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
From bottle thanks to Vasilis and Thomas!! Hazy orange color with white head. Yeasty aroma, funky, dusty, wet socks in closed room, mushrooms, light citrus, grass. Bitter, light sweet and light to moderate acidic taste. Medium oily body with soft carbonation.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Volume 02: Bufo from Wunderkammer Biermanufaktur 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle, undated, shared with Nelson on 4/13/17.
Glowing amber-ruby. Head immediately fizzles away. Translucent clarity.
Woody, earthy tones including light smoke, black pepper and cherry pit rise up but are quickly balanced by a honey and caramel-like maltiness. The finish if full of soft minerality. Smells just like pu-erh tea; lots of sticks and such. Very understated, not overdone with the acidity and rounded out by the malt nicely. No alcohol or flaw.
Sour acetic acids confront the palate initially as bready specialty malts give way to lots of wood, dirt, mushroom-like umami and finally a much brighter red fruit character. Malt is highly attenuated; too much so, leaving a dearth of texture with too much sourness/dryness lingering. Lots of pu-erh tea-like flavors. Tight, engaging carbonation with no alcohol. VERY dry.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thanks Dr Moll for sharing the bottle! Poured into a taster showing moderately filtered whitish yellow with sparse white foam. The nose shows tart notes of apricot that warms up into a light mushroom-like fungal note. The palate is medium bodied and moderately carbonated. Flavors of moderately tart apricot that transfers into a light umami/savoury mushroom flavor profile. Surprisingly this change on the nose and the palate is not unpleasant and very well done with the tartness. Definitely an interesting beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4.5
Poured into a tulip, the appearance was a glossy burnt semi-dark orange color with a thin layer of white foamy head quickly dies off. Stringy lace quickly slides off into oblivion.
The aroma leads with an overly sharp vinous quality bursting over earthy/dirty dry woody smells. Some sweet grass.
The flavor brings back that sharp vinous flavor with dry woody flavor. Vinous aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a dry sticky feel clinging to my tongue.
Overall, decent as a \"sour\" in the feel, but aromas and flavors are too vinous and not allowing the so called other ingredients to brighten up or shine in the beer.