Modus Operandi
Wild Beer Co in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England 🏴
Flemish Red / Bruin Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.14
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OLD ALE + OAK-AGED FOR 90 DAYS + WILD YEAST
This is the beer that started the brewery, a Wild beer, an untamed beast that thrives on the unpredictability of wild yeast and the subtlety and complexity of maturation in oak.
Available in 330ml Bottle / 20l Keg
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draught No head to speak of, hazy orangeish-rimmed brown beer. Lactic acid, fruitjumble (in the good sense of the word!), vinous, berries, point of acetic, and old barrels. Chocolate, berries, wine and wood in the flavour, pretty complex. Acidburn and -thinning, medium bodied, slick, dry. Very good BA fruitbeer.
Tried
on 01 May 2016
at 01:54
3.3/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 2
Imported from my RateBeer account as Wild Beer Modus Operandi (by Wild Beer):
Aroma: 3/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 3/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 4/20, MyTotalScore: 1.5/5
30/IV/16 - on tap @ Tilquin English Beer Festival - BB: n/a (2016-465) Thanks to the Belgian Ratebeer Crew (and Beerhunter111) for sharing today's beers!
Murky beige brown beer, practically no head. Aroma: dirty, diacetyl, butter, bit sourish. MF: soft to no carbon, medium body. Taste: all dirty and buttery, sourish, completely infected, slightly sweet, yuck. Aftertaste: more butter, diacetyl, infection, big big nope. Don't like!
Aroma: 3/10, Appearance: 2/5, Taste: 3/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 4/20, MyTotalScore: 1.5/5
30/IV/16 - on tap @ Tilquin English Beer Festival - BB: n/a (2016-465) Thanks to the Belgian Ratebeer Crew (and Beerhunter111) for sharing today's beers!
Murky beige brown beer, practically no head. Aroma: dirty, diacetyl, butter, bit sourish. MF: soft to no carbon, medium body. Taste: all dirty and buttery, sourish, completely infected, slightly sweet, yuck. Aftertaste: more butter, diacetyl, infection, big big nope. Don't like!
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Apr 2016
at 15:15
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Shared 11.2 oz. bottle. As Modus Vivendi. Pours amber brown with a large beige head. Aroma is red wine, cherry, and oak. Taste is vinous, sour, cherry, oak, and leather. It’s like a weak sour red/brown dominated by wood flavoring. Has a mildly sour, acetic, oaky finish. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Apr 2016
at 08:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, 330 ml, courtesy of Miro. Shared with him and JFK10000. Dark amber off white head. Light sourish, fruit, oak, lots of carbonation, bretty. Medium bodied. Dry bitterish finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Mar 2016
at 06:35
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Dark brown color with small tan head. Aroma is sour cherry yoghurt, some charred malts. Taste is more sour cherry yoghurt and charred malts, almonds in the aftertaste. Medium carbonation. This was the last pour of the keg, I wonder if the first pour also tasted like this.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2016
at 15:05
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Tap, dregs of the barrel. Murky brown, offwhite foam. Dry berry, wood, leather, chocolate , cherry. Medium body, wooden dry, dry sparkly. Sherry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Mar 2016
at 14:54
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Large sample from a bottle on 5th Feb 2016: in De Bierboom during the 4th International Beer Exchange Evening. Red hue to the semi-cloudy brown body of my pour, the head a wispy tan coloured affair. Semi-sour cherries in a red wine vinegar taste and aroma, all blended in an old oak container that had apples in it once: strange, yet interesting and making you want to have another sip to see if it really is that weird. Not too sure I liked it to be honest.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Feb 2016
at 09:32
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
This was poured into a tulip.
The appearance was a semi-dark burnt brown color with a quickly dissipating white foamy head that dissipated pretty quickly.
The smell had some tart cherries with a subtle vinous and woody dry character.
The taste was mainly the same with a subtle sticky cherry/big fruity ordeal going on leading into the aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a good sessionabile and slightly sour feel.
Overall, I can see it as an old ale, slightly with the Wild Beer Company sort of \"sour\" take. I’d say good for what it is, pretty sure I’d have again.
The appearance was a semi-dark burnt brown color with a quickly dissipating white foamy head that dissipated pretty quickly.
The smell had some tart cherries with a subtle vinous and woody dry character.
The taste was mainly the same with a subtle sticky cherry/big fruity ordeal going on leading into the aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium on the body with a good sessionabile and slightly sour feel.
Overall, I can see it as an old ale, slightly with the Wild Beer Company sort of \"sour\" take. I’d say good for what it is, pretty sure I’d have again.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Jan 2016
at 18:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
33cl bottle. Pours dark brown with a thin off white head. Vinegary, oaky, cherries in aroma. Flavor has vinegar, tartness, wood, wine, cherries. Quite complex, tart, acidic finish. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2015
at 15:49
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bij Maakun. Fles. Zure meuk met kersenzoet randje en veel hout! Lekker schuimig zacht mondgevoel. Backlog from 2015/08/28. --- Beer merged from original tick of Modus Operandi (Modus Vivendi) on 28 Aug 2015 at 22:44 - Score: 8. Original review text: Zure meuk met kersenzoet randje en veel hout! Lekker schuimig zacht mondgevoel
Tried
on 21 Dec 2015
at 11:45