Urban Artifact Sliderule

Sliderule

 

Urban Artifact in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸

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Score
7.10
ABV: 4.9% IBU: 12 Ticks: 17
A dark gose with 800lbs of raspberries and 7.5gallons of liquid cacao per 30bbl batch.
 

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8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
12 ounce can into tulip glass, no can dating. Pours hazy nearly opaque dark brown color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of juicy and lightly tart/tangy raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, lemon, lime, green apple, red grape, cocoa, vanilla, coriander, sea salt, herbal, grass, wheat, cracker, light lacto funk, and yeast earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/acidic yeast, raspberries, cocoa, spices, salt, and light-moderate pale malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big juicy and lightly tart/tangy raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, lemon, lime, green apple, red grape, cocoa, vanilla, coriander, sea salt, herbal, grass, wheat, cracker, light lacto funk, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tartness, fruit tang, and light spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart/tangy raspberries, fruit skin/seeds, lemon, lime, green apple, red grape, cocoa, vanilla, coriander, sea salt, herbal, grass, wheat, cracker, light lacto funk, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/acidic yeast, raspberries, cocoa, spices, salt, and light-moderate pale malt flavors; with an awesome malt/tartness and tangy fruit balance; with zero puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Light-moderate increasing dryness from tartness and tangy fruit. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately crisp, grainy/acidic, and lightly sticky/chalky/saline balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 4.9%. Overall this is an excellent fruited gose. All around great fruity/acidic yeast, raspberries, cocoa, spices, salt, and light-moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink with the modestly acidic/tangy/drying finish. Never overly salty or lactic. Was not sure what to expect, but this tastes like a chocolate raspberry tart dessert or something. Extremely well balanced between the jammy raspberries, Lacto, cocoa, salt, and spice; with a solid pale/wheat malt backbone. A very unique and enjoyable offering; and great style example.
Tried from Can on 12 Feb 2018 at 00:28

8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8
4 oz. draft at Extreme Beer Fest, 3 Feb, 2018. Appearance shows a deep brown with a black hue. Aroma is subtle berries, chocolate, mild funk. The flavor is a great balance of raspberry, sourness, and chocolate. All natural flavors and not a novelty at all! I loved this. Thinking about seeking out cans. Wonderful balance, easy tartness.
Tried from Draft on 07 Feb 2018 at 10:19

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
EBF 2018: pours black with beige head. Aroma is chocolate and funk. Taste is lods of raspberry. Chocolate subdued. Good. definitely weird.
Tried on 04 Feb 2018 at 15:45

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
My label is totally different, it has a geeky girl on the front carrying a sliderule and a flask. I hesitated to buy this can. I was initially repulsed by the thought of it but then, couldn’t stop looking at it and thinking, oh my. Pour dark like a porter, same head too. Smell borders on artificial raspberry with shades of chocolate. Head disappears. Thin like a gose, not viscous. I was expecting a thicker brew. Taste is a little chocolate but the tart raspberry sticks out fer sher. Pleasant. Odd. Unique. Taste at times borders on hard to take, but never really gets there. Good sizzle and tartness carries it thru. Chocolate tends to fade in the middle then the raspberry gose starts to punch its way forward. Not sure about this one. Drink one? OK. 2? Not sure but, it is a pleasant all round experience for a one night stand. Nice visit, but would not want to live there. heheheh. Strange presentation for a gose.
Tried from Can on 19 Aug 2017 at 12:19

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8
12 oz can poured, with much thanks to prufrockstar for the can. Spent a while convincing myself to finally open this. The chocolate raspberry part sounds amazing as usual. But in a gose.. still wasn’t sure. Much better than I expected. Has the flavor of a chocolate raspberry stout, but a much much thinner body, so all is well. The flavor is spot on. Raspberry is much stronger than the chocolate, which I enjoy here. Lingering red raspberry constant, with a minimal tart. Cool throughout. Very enjoyable.
Tried from Can on 31 Jul 2017 at 20:23

5.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 8 Overall 4
Once again I feel the need to resurrect my "some things should not be" argument against a beer, in this case because I’m drinking a goddamned chocolate gose. Not that Sliderule’s terrible, just too weird for my blood, a big salty tart chocolate berry cordial, mixing flavors that should never be mixed. Starts with tart raspberry and yeasty breadiness, then the chocolate sets in and everything kinda goes to hell (no pun intended.) Tart lemon and Tootsie Roll on the finish. Can’t dig it, but my wife likes it, so I won’t be too harsh.
Tried from Can on 07 Apr 2017 at 22:00

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
On draught at Bob’s Bar during the "Inaugural Bob’s Bar Sour Spectacular!" on 02/12/2016. The beer pours a slightly cloudy brown color with a medium thin off-white head that recedes steadily. Small patches of lacing on the glass. Aroma of berries, yeast and malt. Light-bodied with flavors of semi-tart raspberry, chocolate malt and yeast. The finish is mildly funky berry and chocolate. Above average overall.
Tried on 16 Feb 2016 at 15:12