Denali Brewing Company Louisville Sour

Louisville Sour

 

Denali Brewing Company in Talkeetna, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸

  Sour / Wild Beer Regular
Score
7.24
ABV: 5.1% IBU: - Ticks: 10
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7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

12 oz. bottle, pours a clear bright golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of oak, a nice wild bugginess, and a bit of juicy stone fruits. Flavour is bright, with lots of oak, real nice bugginess, and some stone fruit-like juiciness. Bright, vibrant, oaky, buggy, fruity finish with everything in nice balance. Excellent.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jul 2023 at 02:21


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Perfectly clear golden coloured body with a thinnish, pure white head that tops the beer nicely, but fades fast. Aroma of very tart and funky soured bretty and lactobilly notes with some flowers and perfume aspects, with a lot of berries noticeable and some bread and light sugar yeastie notes. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong funky yeast notes dominate with a lot of perfume and berries with some soured, bretty notes with a lot of raspberries and the funky lactobilly notes that finish this off nicely and quite lightly. Aftertaste shows the grass and floral notes with a light funky yeast quality along with a dash of berries, but the yeast of course dominates here and clearly shows the funkiness that comes through as sour, slightly doughy, a touch bready and definitely complex - especially for the light aspect of the beer. Overall, a nice and enjoyable soured beer with a lot of funky qualities, some dryness and a good crisp taste that is very easy-drinking, but still complex. I sampled this stubby, twelve ounce bottle, purchased from Brown Jug in Anchorage (Dimond Center), Alaska on 28-June-2021 for US$1,99 sampled in my hotel room here on the day before leaving this beautiful state on 01-July-2021.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jul 2021 at 01:49


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Thanks to Rogueone for sharing a bottle. This beer is a clear orange color with a medium off-white head that diminishes steadily to an outer ring. Strings of lace. Aroma of citrus, oak and yeast. Light-bodied with flavors of tart and funky fruit, peppery yeast and malt. The finish is tart with a lemony aftertaste. Above average overall.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2017 at 17:46


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Growler: Pour golden with a white head. Light tart nose. Taste is very mild sour.

Tried on 14 Sep 2016 at 23:52


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Tap at the tasting room. Pours gold with a white head. Mild sour fruit aroma Near med body. Flavor is a mix of stone fruit and lemon sour. Mild sour. No burn. Yet it is sour. Delicious.

Tried from Draft on 12 Sep 2016 at 10:37


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

In draft at the brewpub. Pours a clear Gold with an off white head. Subtle aroma of chokecherry. Flavors of tart white grapes. Smooth crisp and only slightly sour finish.

Tried from Draft on 04 Jun 2016 at 01:30


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at Humpy’s.
This was poured into a nonic pint.
The appearance was a nice hazy yellow color with a slight transparency about it. Some carbonation was seen rising. The head dissipated within about a minute leaving some stringy lacing here and there.
The smell had a sweet to bitter citrus, grapefruit and grassy and somewhat piney with a mellow sour - ness.
The taste was sweet, bitter and had a mellow sour - ness to the flavor.
There’s a light sour and sweet orange juice like aftertaste but I liked it.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a superb sessionability about it. The carbonation was good for me and for the style.
Overall, wow, for me, I really liked this one but then again, it seemed like the sour - ness was tamed a bit. I’m not sure what true sour fans would think.

Tried from Draft on 20 Dec 2014 at 14:18


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

(tap) hazy yellow colourwith a small white head; aroma of lime, lemon; refreshing flavour lighlty sour with a short sour finish

Tried from Draft on 15 Nov 2014 at 20:43


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pale with a slight haze. Lactic nose with delicate floral fruitiness. Pale male and lactic on the palate, mild sourness, aged in Heaven Hill barrels but no real sign aside from light woodiness.

Tried on 20 Sep 2014 at 20:25


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Sampled from the tap at FOBAB 2012. Pours a hazy pale gold with a large white head that lasts throughout the year. Aroma is very funk forward with barnyard and horse blanket with underlying sour lemon. Flavor is also very funk forward but the sourness comes through with a hint of lemon and backing wood.

Tried from Draft on 19 Nov 2012 at 17:40