La Ruche (Blend #01)
(Batch of La Ruche)
Side Project Brewing in Maplewood, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Farmhouse - Saison Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.61
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La Ruche is a delicate Missouri Saison fermented using a blend of our local microflora and a traditional Saison yeast. Orange Blossom honey was added to this soft beer for refermentation in a Missouri Oak Foedre and was aged to maturity before being naturally conditioned in the bottle.
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle pours out golden topped with a fizzy head. Nose is nice funky tartness some fruit notes. Taste is more of the nice funky notes and some fruit.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2024
at 17:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle: Poured a slightly hazy golden color ale with a medium size white foamy head with good retention and light lacing. Aroma of funky yeast notes with light barnyard notes with faint notes of honey and tart notes. Taste is also a mix of funky yeast notes with some light honey, medium tart notes and some oak notes. Body is pretty full for style with good carbonation. Solid wild ale with a good mix of drinkability and complexity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2024
at 20:05
8.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
75cl bottle, label: Blend 5. Thx tiong! Poured golden and slightly cloudy. Light vinegary with apricots, light funk, sourness, dark fruits, finishes dry and bitter. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 May 2023
at 10:14
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
(Bottle, 0.75l, thanks tiong, at VastActiv, 20230518) The beer poured golden and hazy. Its head was small and white. Aroma had fruitiness, tartness, wood and sourness. Palate was medium bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were fruitiness, tartness, sourness, wood and bitterness. Aftertaste was dpiy tart and bitter. Delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 May 2023
at 18:11
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle, shared by mansquito. Pours orange. Funk, tart, citrus zest, grain. Medium body. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2022
at 01:00
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from source: pours light orange with a white head. Aroma is honey, yeasty funk, some citrus. Taste is acidic, honey, light sweetness, nice complexity. Excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2022
at 00:56
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at the 3/13 PS tasting thanks to Brian! Hazy yellow, large frothy white head, good retention. Aroma of tart lemon, funk, wine, oak. Taste is lemon, oak, funk. Delicate, bright.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2022
at 01:40
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Flaska från Side Project, blend 4. Blekguldig, klar med klar vit krona. Mycket citrus, citrusskal/vita, snällare i syra, snäll honungston, väl utjäst, vete, torr, lätt. Törstsläckande.
Tried
on 06 Feb 2022
at 20:55
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thanks to Peter! Pours clear golden, small white head, decent lacing. Aroma is nice, buggy, oak barrel, light vinous notes, lemon, hint of herbal note. Flavor is light tart, light funk, mineral and white wine notes. Lightish body. Quite nice. Certainly on par with what I would expect from say HF or SARA.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Sep 2020
at 16:03
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle split at L6, team effort, 22/08/19. Lightly hazed golden orange with a decent off white head. Nose is tangy fruit rinds, dried apricot, apple skins, funk, dusty wood. Taste comprises sharp citric rinds, hay bale, stoned fruits, mellow funk, tarte fruit esters. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close. Decent tangy farmhouse affair.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2020
at 12:59