Tap at BeerTemple. Hazy light golden with big white head. Quite Bretty, dank weedy hops, lime peel, pineapple, sweaty socks. Just medium sweet and bitter. Medium bodied.

Holy balls what am I smelling? This thing is all over the map and I can barely get a foothold. I get: acetone, poop, moldy straw, perfume, candy, floor polish. None of those are really the right descriptor. It’s basically a lot of bretty weirdness and hops coming together to create a gestalt of funk. Pale hazy yellow. Huge massive billowing protein rich meringue head. Flavor is much like the aroma, funk and weird. Floral and citrus rind bitter, bretty funk. I barely even know what to think. Rarely have I been so dumbfounded by a beer. I think I like it?

Vom Fass im Muted Horn Berlin 2017-05 getrunken. Hier treffen typische Pale Ale Aromen auf eine sehr sanften Säure durch die Brett (Brettanomyces), die doch dann zu sehr im Hintergrund bleibt. Nett und fast schon etwas langweilig!

’Brett IPA’ from Crooked Stave, the renowned producer of primarily sour and wild ales that has been active since 2010 but has been operating its own brewhouse only for a couple of years now; bottle from Beergium. Opens with a whole lot of pressure and I could only manage to avoid gushing by pulling of the crown cap extremely gently and slowly. Loose but moussy, snow white head, old gold robe with peachy tinge, clear initially but equally misty with sediment. Interesting aroma combining Brett with ’dank’ hoppiness: urine is the first thing that springs to mind in this combination, but in a ’good’ way if that makes any sense, adorned with impressions of fermenting apples, gooseberries, green banana, moldy old lemons, buttermilk, wry grape peel, Picon, wet leather, herb cheese, cedar oil. Estery onset, very low plum-like sweetishness surrounded by an unripe gooseberry-like tartness, soft and drying, bone dry from the start with medium carbonation (less strong than expected based on the pressure - I guess a lot of the carbon dioxide already escaped during opening) and pleasantly mellow mouthfeel. Bready malt core underneath ongoing drying tartness, unripe stonefruit, hay and leathery hints of very clear Brett further unfolding in the finish, with that urine-like factor retronasally, but mixed with earthy, herbal and refreshingly zesty hoppiness, establishing a long, peppery bitterness in the end. Throughout, the whole beer remains bone and bone dry, but that is what makes it very appetizing - an ideal apéritif beer I guess. Both the Brettanomyces effects and the New World hops provide complexity and an array of interesting aromas, but the Brett clearly dominates. My kind of beer.

Bottle. Grass, barnyard, lemon, and biscuit malt aroma. Cloudy yellow with small head. Mildly sweet lemon, biscuit malt, moderately sour Brett, and mildly bitter straw flavor. Good body. Decent but straight forward.

Aroma: very fruity sour. Flavour: Very sour like sour berries. A fruity sweetness and grapelike bitterness. Aftertaste is fruity sour and dry. Colour: amber with a white head. As Crooked Stave Hop Savant 7.0%

Sample from bottle at Bob's Bar during the "Crooked Stave Hits Ohio" event on 02/13/2017. Slightly hazy golden color with a medium white head that diminishes steadily to a film. Sticky strings of lace. Aroma of piney hops, funky yeast and fruit. Medium body with flavors of brett yeast, citrus and stone fruits and bready malt. The finish is tart and funky with a citrus and yeast aftertaste. Pretty good all around.

Troszke w strone apteki ta dzikosc, ale skorzano owocowo tez jest, kwasnosci malo, cacy

Bottle back in like Summer 2013 and again on draught at Row 34, 12/10/16.
Hazy, pale-blonde with light bronze tints and a wispy, white head atop showing moderate retention.
Very hop-forward nose, with tons of lemon, limeskin and pineapple, the Brett acids mixing in, as well. Not too twangy or Brett-dominated nor is it resinous, but it’s rather starkly acidic with very little in the way of backing maltiness. No alcohol and clean with a little sweat and funk.
Not as thin and overattenuated as the other Crooked Stave beers I’ve had, but I still don’t find it to be nearly malty enough in texture. Light, engaging carbonation and tons of citrus and tropical fruits with a touch of barrel tannin and light biscuit. Very dry, almost sharp on the end, with perfume-like notes emerging.