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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Score
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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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle via trade with fonefan - thanks Jan! It pours clear light gold-orange with a small white head. The nose is quite mellow: earth, farmyard, brett, soft fruit, orange, tangerine and spice. The taste is lightly tart, earth, hay, tart orange, apricot, sharon fruit, faint floral and spice with crisp, dry finish. Medium body and fine carbonation. A lot more mellow and soft than I was anticipating. Pleasant, if a little unexciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2013
at 10:08
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared at CBC - Clerkenwell, London - many thanks to Seth! Pours clear, yellow-gold with a light, white cream head. Doughy malt nose, hints of tangy brett. Medium to big sweet flavor, some sugary white bread, faint tangy lemon. Medium bodied with fine carbonation. Lightly warming finish with sugary pale malts, dough, light yeast, sweet lemon and other citrus. So so overall. A bit unexciting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jan 2013
at 08:48
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
375ml bottle. Hazy golden colour with small, frothy, half-way lasting, white head. Minimally yeasty and fruity aroma has cautious notes of peach and lemon. Taste is moderately sweet fruity with a minimally tart touch, notes of peach, tangerine, lime, orange zest; subtle, soft carbonation. Nice fruity taste but not as funky and bretty as expected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jan 2013
at 08:25
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bouteille 375ml. Couleur orangée-dorée, col blanc moyen. Arôme présente une pointe de brett tirant vers le massepain. Ce dernier est assez décevant si l’on tient compte de la réputation de ces deux brasseries pour faire des bières de type ’sour’. Le tout garde un bouquet rappelant un côté belge qui pour moi est très proche de la base de New Belgium. Pointe d’amertume venant des houblons et de fruits fermentés proche des esters. Palais est belge voire type abbaye-triple avec un léger profil ester fruité et un ajout brett qui contribue vraiment trop peu au caractéristiques de la bière. Le tout reste épais, grains avec un houblonnage fruité et herbacé. La bière manque le coche avec le brett à la ramasse et très peu d’influence aigre-funk et allant plus vers le côté abbaye. Pointe de malt cara-crystal. Pour moi, je retrouve ici un clone de la triple de New Belgium.
Tried
on 13 Jan 2013
at 07:10
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Big Top Bevereage, Rosyln, PA 375ml (too much money): Pours golden with a quickly dissipating white head. Aroma is a bunch of Brett funk, sugar, yeast, and fruit punch. Taste is much more wild than it is sour or anything like that, but there is a bit of sourness. It ain’t that interesting. The aroma is better than the taste, which is a bit underwhelming. Still the beer is a nice drink, but not really exciting.
Tried
on 11 Jan 2013
at 16:42
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Hazy dark yellow with small white head. Aroma is malt, yeast, fruit and spices. Flavour is malt, yeast, fruit, spices, medium dry, hop, little bitter and a little orange peel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2013
at 23:34
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Flaske 0,355l. Gave fra Fin&Loz. Thanks! Delt med Rune på rom 224 Premier Inn Blackfriars 5 Nov 12. Åpnet med et smell og litt røyk på “Bonfire Night”. Veldig passende. Vårt bidrag til feiringa. Lys aprikosfarget med et lavt skum. God aprikosaroma. Smaken er søt frukt. Holder seg slik. Litt kjedelig.
Tried
on 03 Jan 2013
at 05:23
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle shared at Beer Temple. Pours hazy golden with a small off white head. Aroma of Belgian yeast, grain, light malt, fruit, but no real brett qualities. Flavour is light to moderate sour, sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2012
at 09:39
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap. Pours with a very hazy golden yellow hued body with a medium sized white head that lasts. Aromas are wheat like, grainy, floral, peppery phenols, some grassy notes, orange, tangerine, lightly rustic phenolics, a touch of sun tan lotion. Flavors are of coriander, phenol, earthy, chamomile, a hint of funk, light esters (some tropical notes), grainy, dry. Medium-low phenols. Peppery. Lively bubbles, low bodied, dry. Tasty beer, but not very funky at the moment.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Dec 2012
at 11:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Sampled from bottle thanks to Joes. Hazy a bit pale yellow color, small to medium sized fairly quickly diminishing white head. Smell malts, some sweetness and lightly sour. Taste malts, not very sour, almost a bit sweet even. Some fruityness as well. Pretty decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Dec 2012
at 13:46