Petite Sour (Pure Guava)
Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular|
Score
6.91
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Deviating from conventional brewing methods and inspired by historic brewing techniques, we created our Pure Guava Petite Sour. Blending farmhouse brewing traditions with an old world souring technique this rustic wheat beer is brewed with the addition of oats and spiced with coriander and sumac. Fermented entirely in our distinct oak foeder, Pure Guava is an unfiltered, golden wild ale with tropical fruit aromas and bright citrus flavors created by a proprietary Brettanomyces strain. This beer is bottled with the natural yeast, if cellared in a cool dark place it will develop more complex Brett characteristics and evolve for years to come. Drink as you would a wheat beer, cloudy with the yeast in suspension. Please enjoy this unique offering in your favorite stemmed glassware and allow the beer to breathe and open up as you swirl it in your glass.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sampled at the Funky 8 - Barcade, Brookly, NYC. Pours cloudy, amber gold with a moderate, off-white head. A bit funky, a bit cheesy. Definitely some sort of guava character in there. Fairly tangy and acidic. Not bad.
Tried
on 29 Jul 2013
at 13:57
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle shared by Jay at Paul’s. Pours cloudy yellow gold with white head. Nose/taste of exotic fruits, lemon and wild yeast. A bit of dry diaper in the nose but not on the taste. Medium body. Good carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2012
at 12:12
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Where the Wild Beers Are, 2011. Strange aroma of stomach acid and cheese. No fruit really, and it is a little sour. As terrible as this description sounds, it actually is drinkable in a wild beer kind of way. Cloudy orange.
Tried
on 11 Feb 2012
at 13:16
3.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 1
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 2.5
Bottle 285/1765, Batch 5/11. Pours with a hazy golden hued body with a massive, foamy, tan head. Aromas of diacetyl, butter, butyric acid, bile, light esters and cheddar cheese. Flavors are slightly better, but not much. Acidic, bile, fruity esters, cheese popcorn. Lively bubbles, dry and acidic. While I liked the other Crooked Stave beers I had, this one was completely undrinkable!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2011
at 14:48
2/10
Tried
on 04 Oct 2011
at 15:28
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours hazy copper gold with nice off white head. The aroma is full up crumbled blue cheese followed by feta cheese, soured cheese, saltiness and a bit of tart for added interest. These cheese notes really do make for a pleasant aroma. The taste is smooth and more subtle than the nose lead on to with some cheese moving quickly into mild tartness, a pleasing sense of fruitiness and a thin mild spicy yeasty note. It dries out some into the after taste. This is tasting great right now. This whole experience works for me. Yum.
Tried
on 01 Oct 2011
at 22:47
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
From what I can gather on the interwebz, this beer is a blend of a Berliner Weisse and an intentionally soured Wit that has also been spiked with brett - apparently the "vomit beer" served at fests was both very young and not a blend, so for all intents and purposes, a completely different beer - the bottle is a bit of a gusher, but it gushed slowly enough that I got the glass under it before I lost any - hazy straw color - fizzy - doesn’t really kick up a head - there is a bit of the butyric acid in the nose that probably evoked the vomit comparison in earlier versions, but here it is presenting as a hint of Parmesan in the overall strong cheesiness in the aroma (blue cheese, Greyere) - nothing off-putting about it, as I love cheese - behind this, some strong notes of tropical fruit brettiness (pineapple and, yes, guava) - light hints of spiciness in the back - full, prickly carbonation in the mouth - light and fairly quaffable, despite the rather high acidity - quite dry, with moderate oak character, tannins - moderate brett funk - lightly earthy wheat - a touch of spiciness - a bit leathery - tastes a bit like a young lambic - a little too young, really, as it isn’t completely coming together just yet - as I understand, though, this is less than 5 months old, so for such a young wild ale, it is actually quite good - I guess I am odd man out here, but I am enjoying it, especially at closer to room temp - props for the nod to Ween, too.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Aug 2011
at 19:56