Ambrée
Jester King Brewery in Austin, Texas, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.20
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For our third batch of Ambrée, we took inspiration from Live Oak and appreciation for subtlety, simplicity, and restraint to create a simple, amber farmhouse ale. We brewed it with three malts (Pilsner, Munich, and Vienna) instead of eight using a decoction mash. The wort was then fermented with our mixed culture of brewer’s yeast and native yeast and bacteria harvested from the air and wildflowers around our brewery. We also scaled down the gravity of Ambrée, which resulted in a lower alcohol by volume. Our third batch of Ambrée is 4.5% ABV, whereas before it was in the 7% range. We think this has lead to a more drinkable, enjoyable beer.
Ambrée Batch 3 was brewed with Hill Country well water, barley, and hops. It was fermented in stainless steel for five weeks with our mixed culture, then naturally conditioned through refermentation in the serving vessel for another four weeks prior to release. It is unfiltered and unpasteurized. At the time of bottling, it had a finishing gravity of 1.002, a pH of 4.39, and was 25 IBUs.
Ambrée Batch 3 was brewed with Hill Country well water, barley, and hops. It was fermented in stainless steel for five weeks with our mixed culture, then naturally conditioned through refermentation in the serving vessel for another four weeks prior to release. It is unfiltered and unpasteurized. At the time of bottling, it had a finishing gravity of 1.002, a pH of 4.39, and was 25 IBUs.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap @ CBC2015. Pours hazy orange with a medium offwhite head. Aromas of lime, caramel, malt, hops, grain, some tart notes. Taste is alike.
Tried
from Draft
on 06 Nov 2019
at 17:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tried
on 22 Feb 2018
at 05:27
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
02.05.2014, tap @ CBC:
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sour-ish, caramel malts, red berries, grass, sorrel, hay, berry skin, rhubarb. Taste is slightly sour-ish smoked, grass, red berries, hay, leather, smoked malts, minerals, grass, rhubarb. Medium bitterness, dry slightly acidic mouthfeel. Nice.
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sour-ish, caramel malts, red berries, grass, sorrel, hay, berry skin, rhubarb. Taste is slightly sour-ish smoked, grass, red berries, hay, leather, smoked malts, minerals, grass, rhubarb. Medium bitterness, dry slightly acidic mouthfeel. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jul 2017
at 07:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. A red beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of brettanomyces, straw, and malt. The flavor is sour with notes of brettanomyces, malt, and berries, leading to a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Jun 2017
at 03:23
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to my boy Ryan for sharing: Poured a copper with white bubbles. Tobacco with funk nose. Light sour with yeasts.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Apr 2016
at 23:33
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled 11/12/2013, drunk 2/5/16.
Lightly gushing, black cherry-to-magenta-amber body shows a light haziness despite my best efforts of mitigating the gushing. Huge head is light beige and well-retained.
Very fruity nose also shows a good deal of acetic character, with very light chocolate from the malts and tons of earth and horsey brett. Lots of pepper, but no alcohol or flaws.
Quite sour in the mouth, with the malts adding bread, dry chocolate, and light, dry toffee. Plentiful amounts of acetic and lactic acid with tons of fruitiness and a lot of hard mineral character from the water and yeasts. Bone dry, exposing light to moderate astringency.
Very silly to call this "Another failed attempt by the Americans at sours", as does tderoeck. Is this a Cantillon or a 3F? No. Is it trying to be? No. Yes, this has perhaps a bit too much acetic character coming off as lightly chemical in nature. Have I found this character in many, many lambics and other Belgian sour ales? Absolutely.
It’s a fine attempt at a sour ale and obviously brewed with a high degree of care and quality.
Lightly gushing, black cherry-to-magenta-amber body shows a light haziness despite my best efforts of mitigating the gushing. Huge head is light beige and well-retained.
Very fruity nose also shows a good deal of acetic character, with very light chocolate from the malts and tons of earth and horsey brett. Lots of pepper, but no alcohol or flaws.
Quite sour in the mouth, with the malts adding bread, dry chocolate, and light, dry toffee. Plentiful amounts of acetic and lactic acid with tons of fruitiness and a lot of hard mineral character from the water and yeasts. Bone dry, exposing light to moderate astringency.
Very silly to call this "Another failed attempt by the Americans at sours", as does tderoeck. Is this a Cantillon or a 3F? No. Is it trying to be? No. Yes, this has perhaps a bit too much acetic character coming off as lightly chemical in nature. Have I found this character in many, many lambics and other Belgian sour ales? Absolutely.
It’s a fine attempt at a sour ale and obviously brewed with a high degree of care and quality.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Feb 2016
at 12:12
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle - pours amber brown white head - nose and taste of caramel, sour grape, oak and red wine - med body
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2016
at 14:32
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Nose of dust, caramel, raisins, coffee, and a bit of bandaid and glue. Quite sour--more than expected--with green apples, minerals. A bit too medicinal and astringent. Weird, interesting stuff, but not quite right.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2016
at 18:21
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
From tap at Copenhagen Beer Celebration 2014. Copper color with red notes and off white head. Malty and yeasty aroma, caramel, wood, spicy, funky, fruity - berries. Sweet and light acidic taste like aroma. Medium almost thin to oily body with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Nov 2015
at 13:45
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught at the brewery, almost no head, cloudy orange color, aroma of sour fruit, vinegar, some maltiness and a hint of rubber, fruity flavor, lightish sourness, light but empathic bitterness. Nice and easy.
Tried
on 26 Oct 2015
at 08:52