Feral Vinifera
(has 1 batch)
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Series Out of Production|
Score
7.66
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Vintage 2017. On tap at Weathered, pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out subdued wild yeast, a bit of oak, some wine barrels, and then more earthy funk. Flavour is along the same lines, with a very vinous character, some tartness, oak, and a nice grape-like tang. Much stronger than the nose suggests. Excellent.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jan 2019
at 07:21
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Draft @ Firestone Walker Taproom - Venice, Marina Del Rey, CA. Pours a golden color with a small white head. Has a fruity sour tart woody grape and apricot aroma. Fruity sour tart woody grape flavor. Has a fruity sour tart woody grape and apricot finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Apr 2018
at 10:18
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375 c&c from the Venice Venue. Pours hazy dark gold with a quite transient white head. Aroma is yeasty with pale stone fruit. Med body or so. Flavor is mildly yeasty, mildly funky, gets oak notes, earthy/tannic, a touch floral. The one specific flavor I can nail down: dried apricot - even has that supporting twinge in the flavor. This is a very easy drinking sour. Even tho "imperial" in strength, and without heavy malt for disguise, the heat issue is questionable. There's a feeling in the gullet, but ... I approached this in fear and trembling, but it's smooth and very lightly acidic.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Mar 2018
at 23:45
8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Brilliant gold, honey-like, with lace. Nose is grapes, oak, buttery oaked white wine, lemon, some horse blanket. Tart, wine-like flavor, some buttery oak, kind of like a wild yeast Chablis. Moderately sour, some pineapple and peach notes, with a tingly, peppery finish. Lovely stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 May 2017
at 22:09
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle [from trade but totally forgot with whom, my apologies!] shared with Countbeer and Thompson. Unclear orangy color, no head. Smell and taste citrus peel, quite sour, fruitpeel sour. Pretty sour and a bit too much for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2015
at 02:02