Le Roar Grrrz
Bullfrog Brewery in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States 🇺🇸
Lambic Style - Gueuze Regular|
Score
7.73
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Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Le Roar Grrrz from Bullfrog Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. An amber beer with a beige head. The aroma has notes of vinegar and malt. The flavor is sour with notes of lemons, straw, and brettanomyces, leading to a tart finish.
Pinball (15907) reviewed Le Roar Grrrz from Bullfrog Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
bottle clear yellow small white head.aroma is quite sour and a little her al floral grazzy. flavor is clean quite sour herbal tea like note
Reubs (35480) reviewed Le Roar Grrrz from Bullfrog Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle@Jespers - Golden orange pour with white head. Fruity with notes of grape, some citrus fruity notes, medium body and acidity, some barnyard and orchard fruity notes, tart fruity finish.
yespr (55501) reviewed Le Roar Grrrz from Bullfrog Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
75 cl bottle. Pours cloudy yellow. Small white head. Aroma is fruity. Slight herbal. Dry and slight orange fruity. Sweet, lingering fruity. Wooden. Dry and slight herbal. Medium dry and light herbal. Mild earthy. Medium dry and bretty to earthy finish.
westchesterco (2480) reviewed Le Roar Grrrz from Bullfrog Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
From a 75 ml bottle. Pours a clear lgolfen color with a slight head. The Aroma is a saisson malt and the taste starts out somewhat sour and evolves into an interesting sweetness with some hints of sour apples complex and distinctively different
iphonephan (11575) reviewed Le Roar Grrrz from Bullfrog Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
From a 75 ml bottle. Pours a clear orange amber with an off whtie head. Aroma of funk. Flavors are moderately sour, with a nice sweetness running through as balance. Refreshing beer and very tasty. Holds up well against some of Belgium’s finest.
MarcoDL (7854) reviewed Le Roar Grrrz from Bullfrog Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
At Hopishop 2017. Aroma of tart, acidic sourness, white grape and horseblanket. Taste has tart, horseblanket, dry white grape, oak and a really dry tart finish. Not bad, but needs some more refinement.
Alengrin (11609) reviewed Le Roar Grrrz from Bullfrog Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
There is one last fronteer the American - and by extension now global - craft beer movement has yet to conquer, and that is traditional lambic and its offspring. Very serious attempts have been made recently, with Jester King's Spon as the most credible one from what I heard (I'm still trying to hunt down a bottle) and out of respect for these specific activities, a 'méthode traditionelle' label has been installed, under which American craft breweries have started trying to imitate lambic, geuze and traditional fruit lambic as closely as possible without explicitly using the terms 'lambic' and 'geuze' to identify their products style-wise. This Le Roar Grrrz, with the last part of the name mimicking the Dutch pronunciation of 'geuze', predates this very serious approach - and apparently managed to enter the top 50 of geuzes here. Very eager to put this one to the test, being the lambichead that I am... Thick and coarse, tightly lacing, snow white head, initially clear and deep, pure 'old gold' colour. Quite idiosyncratic, but attractive aroma of old sour apples, unripe green raspberries, lime flesh, very old and oxidized white wine, old sweat, lemon peel, dry wood, horseradish, hay. Sour onset, green apple, gooseberry and more pungent lemony acidity, touch of white vinegar even, over a somewhat soapy wheaty background, dry and astringent main character, bit wry, woody tannins in the finish as well as an outspoken, long-lasting, spicy hop bitterness, bit old grapefruit peel-like even, more explicit than normal for any kind of lambic. This is quite a unique beer, an approximation of a geuze, but altogether clearly different as well and lacking in the depth, estery complexity and refinement of a true 'oude geuze'. Not sure if this brewery supports that new 'méthode traditionelle' movement and intends to meet its requirements, but if not, I'd recommend them to do so: approaching geuze with American pseudo-lambic will evidently lead to pseudo-geuze, but I reckon this can be regarded as a first step in a potentially promising new chapter in the American beer revolution. And in that chapter, Bullfrog may function as more than just a forerunner - it may well be able to write an important part of it. Hugely interesting from a 'philosophical' point of view and most enjoyable to sour beer lovers, but as others have stated here before me, this is not really a geuze.
Puttetjes (2252) ticked Le Roar Grrrz from Bullfrog Brewery 8 years ago
sjogro (11801) reviewed Le Roar Grrrz from Bullfrog Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Maakun shares the sour power. Bottle shared, golden pour with white head. Big sour grain, apricot, big dry firecracker funk. Moderate sweet and sour and bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation. Lovely dry and funky and fruity. Crazy nice.