Special Herbs
Upright Brewing in Portland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸
Traditional Beer - Gruit Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.61
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Special Herbs began as an experiment a few years ago when we decided to age a bit of our Reggae Junkie Gruit in Old Tom Gin casks. After a short time the beer tasted dull, but several months later it picked up some natural acidity along with the botanical aspects from the residual spirit in the oak. We loved the profile for having so much brightness and depth in the nose while maintaining a crisp and wine-like mouthfeel and finish. This new batch represents the first of annual releases for the Special Herbs, and in addition to two gin barrels we also mixed in two third use wine casks that were full of spent peaches carrying their own mix of yeasts and bacteria, contributing even more layers to this wild beer.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at THT. Hazy golden with short lasting white head. Ginger, Szechuan peppers, lemon, grassy, spicy yeast, light malts, lactic notes, flowery. Quite herbal indeed with tart lemon, light mineral and there’s some of the saison underneath. Don’t get much spirits. Almost medium sour and light sweet. Medium bodied with fizzy carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2016
at 13:40
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared at THT. Hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma of fruity peppers, lemongrass, spicy notes and herbs (special ones). Flavour is above light sweet and light to moderate sour. Light to medium bodied with soft carbonation. [26-08-2016]
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Aug 2016
at 10:30
9.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 10
Thank you Mathieu87 & PriorL! 750 ml. bottle sampled @ “Epic beer Tasting 2016”. Hazy golden, little white head. Nose is big ginger, lime, mellow, spice tea, intense ginger & other spices. Taste is big juicy lemon & big ginger, lime zest, juicy, low sourness. Big refreshing mildly sour cocktail tropical ginger brew. Very juicy, not for everyone but I quite liked. Surprised about learning that this is a peach beer. Gin & botanicals make definitely sense in hindsight. Que: Qx2zU1c2LFM (youtube)
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2016
at 09:13
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Small whitish head, lightly veiled golden beer. Ginger, lavender, limepeel. Sourish, lemon, red/whitecurrant and lots of ginger, some other spices. Light to medium bodied, very low carbonation. too spicy - still, some like this.
Tried
on 07 Aug 2016
at 08:11
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
750ml bottle pours out a hazy gold topped with a white head. nose is citrus funky notes pine cheese white grapes and oak. Taste is more of the citrus notes lemongrass pine floral spices and the oak.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2016
at 10:57
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle thanks to Nick. Pours a cloudy yellow orange with small off white head that diminishes quickly. The aroma is lemon, oak, funk, gin. Thin mouthfeel with tart lemon, light funk, gin with light dry finish. Very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2014
at 21:02