Sour Beer
Fire Valley (Hi no Tani Kogen) Beer in Tsu, Mie, Japan 🇯🇵
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
5.56
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle. Butter nose, butterscotch, honey, some grapefruit and acid. Hazy orange-golden color with a high, airy head. Tart citrus flavor, lactic, creamy, buttery, nice grapefruit, a touch of cinnamon spice. The lactic flavors are all over the place, too much diacetyl. Oily, buttery body. Far from a properly done sour ale, but not terrible and glad to see them trying.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 1 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 1
It pours a nice looking honey gold with a bright white head of foam. The aroma is vinegar & butterscotch. Yuck, I am guessing this kettle sour was intended to be a Gose. Raspy sandpaper carbonation on a light body with a dry finish. The taste is gross, diacetyl buttery bomb, cardboard, skunk and ash. Worst beer I’ve had in awhile and definitely the worst from this brewery. Just WTF?!?! It isn’t sour it is just off as hell. Drain Pour.