Grandma's Boy (2012-2014)
Bellwoods Brewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.59
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2012 Version was aged 5 months prior to bottle conditioning. 2014 version was aged 16 months in barrel and with plums for additional 4 months prior to bottle conditioning. 2014 version released on draft Nov 2014. Bottles will be released Dec 2014.
Yeast: Trappist
Hop: Hallertau
Malt: Pilsner, Abbey, Wheat, Oats
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
650 ml bottle, clear amber pour, minimal white head.
Great funky aroma, the barrel is right up front bringing some nice woody vanilla notes. The fruit is subtle, but adds a nice sugary, fruity sweetness. The funk is solid and fresh, wet hay, and green fresh cut grass. As it warms the vanilla really starts to dominate and take away from the funk. Still extremely impressive!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle shared by Ryan, thanks! Pours a hazy gold with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of earthy grains with some funky fruits and a decent amount of sweetness. Flavor has a good amount of sweet grains with a light earthy tart fruit and a decent amount of funk.
Ferris (26026) reviewed Grandma's Boy (2012-2014) from Bellwoods Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Draft - Soured stone fruit and some white grape. Cloudy gold with a decent head. Soured peach notes, touch of chalk and orange rind. OK.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
500mL bottle, sent from wilco (thanks a lot, Mike), pours a cloudy golden orange with a small white head. Nose brings out massive plums upfront, with medium brett and some candied fruit underneath. Flavour is quite complex, with lots of vinous oak notes upfront, followed by peaches, and medium brett funk. Pretty fruity, vinous and oaky. Fairly alcoholic, but not too boozy. Excellent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bouteille 500ml, gracieuseté d’AlexGenois, merci Alex! Couleur orangé pâle trouble, mousse blanc cassé crémeuse laissant une belle dentelle. Arôme de Brett, prune, un peu terreux, gâteau des anges, légèrement vanillé. Goût de malt, boisé, bonne présence des bretts, sucré, alcool habilement camouflé, légère acidité en fin de bouche, prune en arrière-goût. Carbonatation moyenne-élevée, corps moyen.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bouteille 50cl de et partagée avec Pierre T. Bottle count 1704, no BB date. Dorée présentant un léger trouble, col blanc voire blanc-cassé crémeux et épais. Arôme met d’office le point sur les bretts qui sont bien là. Le tout est accompagné par un léger rétro-nasal rappelant presque un Chardonnay. La prune arrive en toute fin et sans être marquée sur l’étiquette aurait facilement été oubliée. De ce point de vue, je trouve très peu en terme de caractère de triple. Palais est agréable quoique un peu relevé au niveau des 11%. Le point négatif de cette bière réside dans le brett qui est quasi la même souche constamment revue et qui commence à devenir trop redondante. De mon côté je ne trouve rien de nouveau. Bière solide certes, mais ça s’arrête là. Note aussi un léger fini qui peut se rapprocher d’un boisé de Chardonnay et dont le caractère initial de la bière - les prunes - se retrouvent noyées dans la masse et surtout trop en retrait par rapport aux brett. Petite épaisseur de bouche venant de l’avoine, peu en terme de développement des houblons, ici un houblon pourtant très noble et neutre.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
A hazed golden ale with a thin white head. In aroma, beautiful fruity malt with smooth Brett, cork character, ground cherries, lactic acid, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with orange pulp, coriander, smooth Brett, cork, grassy hops, citrus pulp, excellent. On tap at brewery.
TimE (11146) reviewed Grandma's Boy (2012-2014) from Bellwoods Brewery 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Deep amber golden color. Amazing lactic nose with oak, vanilla, creamy, moderately sour. Some marmalade pops its nose out. Amazing nose. Wow. Hoppier mouth than expected, not so intense, oak, creamy, tons of malt, soo well balanced. Has to be Chardonnay barrels. Oak shines. Drinks amazingly light for 10%. Superb.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Vanilla and cream, fruity, caramel, sweetened condensed milk in the nose. Apple, oak, wine. More plums in the mouth, oak, vanilla, light sourness, more tart than sour. Great fruit, great lactic flavor, yogurt, white wine with oak. Very nice and elegant.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle: Poured a hazy dirty beige color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of vinous notes with light tart notes and some funk notes. Taste is also dominated by more funk then expected with some tart and vinous notes. Plums are quite hard to distinguish and somehow get lost in the mix. Body is quite full with great carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Good sour with nice level of complexity while retaining some drinkability.