Violet Underground
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: Wild Beer CoSour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Special Out of Production
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Score
7.30
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from 2015 thanks to Felipe. Pours slightly hazy golden, small white head, dissipates slowly, some lacing. Aroma is raspberries, bugs, funk, oak, lemon, floral notes, socks, brett. Flavor is light plus tart, medium funk, light berries. Medium body, soft carbonation. Pretty solid
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home in London. Pours totally clear gold, highly effervescent, with a frothy white head that fizzes out quickly. Lots of lemon notes in the aroma, hints of metal, wheat, citrus peel. Light sweet flavour with aggressive acidity, a touch more metal, impressions of grape, lemon juice, a little salty sweat. Light bodied with quick and massaging carbonation. Dry on the finish, lip-puckeringly sour, quenching, with more lemon character, salty bite, a little metallic zip, tongue-ripping acidity. Interesting stuff. Definitely a tart little beast. But there’s not a lot of depth to it. Overall, it’s pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle as a gift. Clear and orange/golden with a hint of amber. Almost no head and a trace of visible carbonation. Grapefruit and lemon, with compost and candy sugar in the aroma. Taste is tart, tart, tart. There’s a moment of sweetness right near the end but it never takes hold. Long luxurious tart finish with lemon juice and overripe apple skins in the aftertaste. Wow.
Fergus (31537) reviewed Violet Underground from Firestone Walker Brewing 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle split at ABC Beer The Hague, 24/09/2015. Thanks. A hazed yellow / straw coloured pour. Aroma is zesty lemon funk, zippy tart lemon citrus, fresh and juicy. Hint of parma violet on the nose as well. Flavour is composed of crisp lemon surbert, zippy lemon, pale grains. Palate is crisp, refreshingly tart, spritzy carboantion.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle 375ml. @ [ Pre-Borefts Ratebeer evening ] - ABC Beers, Korte Koediefstraat 5, Den Haag, Netherlands 2511CE. [ As Firestone Walker / Wild Beer Violet Underground ].Unclear medium yellow color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, flowers, citrus, fruity, peach. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light acidic with a long duration, tart, flowers, fruity, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20150924]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tap at the Purecraft Bar and Kitchen, Birmingham. Poured a hazy light amber with a round bubbly white head. The aroma is acid orange citrus, light dough, biscuit. The flavour is moderate sour with a crisp acid, orange marmalade palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Super smooth and highly drinkable.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Nice citrus and light bretta. Hazy golden pour. Tangy finish. Bottle thanks to Travlr. A bit too mouth puckering for me.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle at the DC Mini Tasting. Thanks Travlr! Clear yellow with off-white head. Aromas of tart acidic notes, lemon lime citrus. Tastes of tart lemon citrus, light funk, grassy notes. Light body with a dry finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
From a bottle at the DC RateBeer mini tasting in December 2015. Pours a clear gold with an off white head. Aroma of tart cherry. Flavors of sour persimmon.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
375ml bottle, shared with Blackhaddock & Simon F. Pours a hazy golden amber, minimal head. Raspberry pips aroma, fuzzy carbonation. Nice floral notes to this, sadly no parma violets, some soft berries. Light sour. Lacks the flavour I was expecting unfortunately.