Mo' Betta Bretta
The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: New Belgium Brewing Company / New Belgium Brewing CompanySour / Wild Beer Rotating Out of Production
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6.68
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Collaboration ale between The Lost Abbey and New Belgium Brewing.
A long time ago (well, 2004), Pizza Port’s (Solana Beach, CA) Tomme Arthur and New Belgium’s Peter Bouckaert brewed an all Brettanomyces beer they called Mo’ Betta Bretta. In 2012, the two joined forces once again — this time at The Lost Abbey — to re-release this funky ale.
On the Imagination River…live some very curious Bullfrogs. Rumor has it they LOVE funky and wild beer. But it wasn’t always this way. Like most beer drinking frogs, they started out drinking mass produced beer. And for the most part, each was content drinking this beer. But then a new frog took up residence next door. He embraced funk and his inner wild child.
One day, while lounging on the lily pads, he broke out a special bottle of Mo Betta Bretta, a delicious blonde ale with a decidedly 100% wild fermentation carried out by Brettanomyces. Everything changed that day. Now when you get close to the reeds and listen, you can hear them croaking in unison…Mo Betta Bretta. And for that, we’re thankful these frogs have great taste in beer.
A long time ago (well, 2004), Pizza Port’s (Solana Beach, CA) Tomme Arthur and New Belgium’s Peter Bouckaert brewed an all Brettanomyces beer they called Mo’ Betta Bretta. In 2012, the two joined forces once again — this time at The Lost Abbey — to re-release this funky ale.
On the Imagination River…live some very curious Bullfrogs. Rumor has it they LOVE funky and wild beer. But it wasn’t always this way. Like most beer drinking frogs, they started out drinking mass produced beer. And for the most part, each was content drinking this beer. But then a new frog took up residence next door. He embraced funk and his inner wild child.
One day, while lounging on the lily pads, he broke out a special bottle of Mo Betta Bretta, a delicious blonde ale with a decidedly 100% wild fermentation carried out by Brettanomyces. Everything changed that day. Now when you get close to the reeds and listen, you can hear them croaking in unison…Mo Betta Bretta. And for that, we’re thankful these frogs have great taste in beer.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
12.7 oz corked and caged bottle purchased at Joy Wine and Spirits in Denver, Colorado. Stored wine fridge 55 degrees since purchase, tasted side by side with the New Belgium Brett Beer. The pour is clear golden yellow with a smallish white head. The aroma is really funky, though not necessarily a soft inviting funkiness. The nose is a bit oily, dirty, and has pepper and a mild vegetal aspect. The taste is leather, funk, citrus pineapple floral, then the oily and pepper notes from the nose. The palate medium bodied with soft to low carbonation, and a lingering dirty funk finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2013
at 14:19
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle from Cotteridge wines; clear amber pour small white head, weak sour aroma that comes through in the taste quite insipid I was expecting more from this brewery.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2013
at 11:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from hophead.dk. Hazy dark golden with a big and lasting white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, fruity, yeasty and light bretty. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet and moderate bitter finish, Not a lot of brett in my bottle. Ended up being more of a saison. 220213
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2013
at 12:20
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle, 12.7oz, corked. It pours a hazy, orange body and just some white bubbles as a head. Orange peel, canned pineapple, some pale malts, spice notes and a yeasty note. Some barnyard hints in the far back. Full to medium body, quite dry, with very soft carbonation. Tropical fruits, some white sugar and a faint spiced and yeasty touch in the flavor. Pear hints. Fruity finish. A beer starting of boring as hell, but it soon turns into a very tasteful and pleasant drink. 130222
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2013
at 10:44
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle 375ml @ Geokkjer
Pours sligthly hazy golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, melon, pineapple, yeast and citrus. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long slightly dry, dried fruity, melon, pineapple and yeasty finish
Bottle 375ml @ Geokkjer
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, yeast, pineapple, orange and some herbs. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a fruity and yeasty finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [7 3 7 4 15 - 3.6 2/22/2013]
Pours sligthly hazy golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, melon, pineapple, yeast and citrus. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long slightly dry, dried fruity, melon, pineapple and yeasty finish
Bottle 375ml @ Geokkjer
Pours hazy golden with a white head. Aroma has notes of malt, yeast, pineapple, orange and some herbs. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a fruity and yeasty finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [7 3 7 4 15 - 3.6 2/22/2013]
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Feb 2013
at 10:43
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle @ Irreale. Sample thanks to Lupuloadicto. Pale golden with white head with average duration. Aroma is malty, fruity and yeasty. Flavor is dominated by yeast, fruits, acidic on palate and lactic acid. High carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2013
at 08:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
12.7 fl oz bottle thanks to Nisse666! Sampled on February 6, 2013.Bottled xx.24.12.Hazy golden color, white head. Sweet, light acidic, fruity, hints of phenoles, apple scent. Fruity, yeast, some phenoles, touch of alcohol, sweet taste. Phenoles, sweet aftertaste. Medium mouthfeel, medium bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2013
at 13:51
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Wee corked bottle from Bierkompass cons 2013-02-06 AR: white grapes, mettalic, yeasty, water biscuites AP: pale copper, transparent wee white head F: white grapes, yeasty, dry, wee sweetnees, wee bubbly carbonation, raw fruitiness, medium low bitternees
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Feb 2013
at 11:20
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12.7oz bottle-tight white-yellow/gold. A-yeast, lt malt/hay, lt fruit-pear/banana with slight tart. T-yeast with some funk, spice hops, lt malt/hay, lt fruit-pear/banana with slight tart. Plenty of effervescence. Occasional.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2013
at 19:50
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12.7oz bottle (with a super tough to get off cork) pours copper with a slight haze and minute long off white head. The aroma offers up a bit of sweet malts and wheat and banana to apple esters. The taste is similar with malts and a soft wheat note sliding into a mild to at times faint malt sweetened tart acidic sensation. This tastes like a $6.99 per six pack wheat ale that I’ve had before. But, wait, this beer at the six pack price comes in at $52 per six. (Note to self, never ever buy this again at this price). The price of this beer has left a sour taste in my mouth where the beer only left estery sweetness behind. Disappointing experience.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2013
at 08:52