Coolship English Sour Beer
Elgood's Brewery in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England 🏴
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.99
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Elgood’s Coolship Sour Ale. Brewed using traditional methods & original brewing equipment. Spontaneous fermentation is initiated on our unique double coolships. A long period of fermentation and maturation in special tanks enables naturally occurring wild yeasts, combined with oak, to create its sharp fruity flavour. A true sour English Ale.
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7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Pours a clear dark amber, small off-white head Aroma of malts and sour funky fruit including apples and citrus. Taste of moderately sweet and sour fruits, yeast, caramel. Medium bodied. Quite a malty sour beer but it works, there is a nice balance to this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jan 2025
at 03:04
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
500ml bottle, online from Beers of Europe, Kings Lynn. Pours opaque orange-brown with a beige head. Aroma: cedar, leather, funk. Taste: sweet & sour with light tartness, oak, funk, sour berries, light caramel. Medium body with light carbonation. Interesting, enjoyed it
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2021
at 21:35
6.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Minimal off white collar stayed on a hazy vinegar coloured, slightly effervescent body. Tangy, sour, bitter & vinous aroma. Medium bodied, very sharp on the palate with minimal carbonation & an extremely dry clean finish. Bitter sour fruit, dry white wine, peach & cherry. A bit of an endurance test at first but getting down the glass it really got easier & tastier!
Tried
on 04 Nov 2018
at 21:28
6.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 500ml. @ [ Chriso’s pre- Xmas Tasting 2015 ] - Chris and Ruth's House, London. [ As Elgoods Coolship English Sour Beer ].Clear medium orange colour with a small, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, light tart - sour. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, baking yeast, tart, appley, oak notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20151206] 6-2-7-3-14
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Nov 2017
at 03:20
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at ash’s. Pours pale orange, nose is funky, floral, wood, pineapple, taste is dry, balsamic, zesty fruit, oak, quite tart. --- Beer merged from original tick of Coolship Release #1 on 01 Sep 2015 at 07:30 - Score: 8. Original review text: Keg at spitfire. Pours golden orange, nose is funky, toffee, vanilla, taste is sour, fruity, dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2017
at 14:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Beers of Europe. Appearance - golden with a nice lacy head. Nose - malt bag, savoury woody note like a Chardonnay or similar. Taste - orange zest and general tanginess. Some yeasty sour notes. Palate - light bodied with a tangy texture and a long dry tangy finish. Overall - lovely balanced palate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2017
at 08:02
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft. Lemon/tangerine, toffee malt, and straw aroma. Cloudy golden yellow with minimal head. Sweet-tangy sour orange-lemon/lime, toffee malt, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Nice body. Sour but not over the top.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Aug 2016
at 18:20
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
50cl bottle courtesy of and shared with 77ships. Léger orange, col fin blanc. Arôme au nez fin boisé, petite touche fruitée rappelant un foudre de cidre, léger chêne et citronné. Palais est finemetn boisé, assez plaisant avec une petite note âcre de pomme et un fini citrique léger en retrait. Effervescence est moyenne voire haute. Garde un peu de l’approche cidre.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2016
at 16:33
9.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 10
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 10
500 ml. bottle sampled @ “Wish you were Adam Chandler” tasting. BBF 04/2018. I aged this one at home for over 12 months in hopes of getting more complexity & success I say, insanely better than the other 2 Coolship beers that I tried from Elgoods, I didn’t try this one fresh. Pours orange with no head, little sign of carbonation. Taste is puckering sour orange peel & indeed lambiek, more malts than usual, orange peel, burned sugar & herbal. Taste is puckering & big barnyard frunk reminiscent of lambiek, herbal notes, burned herbs & burned sugar finish, puckering flat, sour apple, wonderful barnyard. Thicker flat body. Akin to a rich & very successful flat lambiek, wonderful beer. Big success.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jul 2016
at 12:23