Wild Beer Co Redwood (2017)

Redwood (2017)

 

Wild Beer Co in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular Out of Production
Score
7.41
ABV: 5.8% IBU: - Ticks: 27
Barrel-aged + Sour Berries + Wild Yeast

Through autumn we forage the hedgerows around the brewery that are heavy with berries. Every year we will bring out Redwood, an annual release celebrating the previous years hedgerow vintage.

Aged for almost a year in some second use Modus Operandi, Burgundy red wine and Scotch Whisky barrels to produce a rich, rounded, tart beer that is intriguing and tasty.

This year we believe it's our best aged with copious amounts of Sloes, Blackberries, Raspberries, Mulberrys, Damsons, Plums, Gooseberries, and Elderberries. Need we say more?
 

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8.2
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Tap at Unorthodox Bar. Loads of bretty spicy yeasty presence, quite rich, woody, berries, well attenuated. Well attenuated, dry, easy drinking. Tasty. Very.

Tried from Draft on 27 Jun 2018 at 21:47


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

Bottle split at Bodney, team purchase, 12/04/18. Reddish amber with a decent light beige cap. Nose is tarte red berries, spice, funk, musty, damp wood, cherry skins. Taste comprises mellow berry tang, light brett, damp wood, background citric acidity, barnyard, dried fruits, funk, red berry fruit balsams. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, drying close. Nice well balanced and relatively complex sour for the ABV.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Apr 2018 at 10:04


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

Bottle shared in Hackney - team effort. Pours hay amber-red with a frothy, off-white head. Nice tart berries in the aroma, leather, funk, cherries. Light sweet flavour with nice acetic bite, leathery berries, sweat, salt. Medium bodied with fine, spritzy carbonation. Quenching finish, more tart and leathery berries, acetic twang, some vinegar. Great stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Apr 2018 at 18:48


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle at LKS. It pours clear deep red with a small white head. The aroma is fresh, sweet, juicy, musty, dried fruits, toffee, fruit cake, light spice and clove. The taste is crisp, dry, bitter, tart, juicy, sour, vinous, malt vinegar, sherbet, red berry, berry skin, earth, leather, black tea and tannin with a drying finish. Medium body and fine, prickly carbonation. Rather enjoyable.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Apr 2018 at 18:42


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

Can shared at Leightons place 12/04/2018. Many thanks. A reddy plum coloured pour with a off pink head . Aroma is lacto, woody berry, semi sweet, cranberry, plum, spicy tangy. Flavour is composed of red cranberry, spicy lacto, tangy, light acid. Semi sweet and sour. Palate is semi sweet sour, tangy, highish carbonation. Not bad.

Tried from Can on 12 Apr 2018 at 18:41


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

12th April 2018
Bodney Bier Huis bottleshare. Thanks to the team. Hazy deep reddish amber beer, small pale pinky peach head. Palate is airy and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Tart berries and a little lemony citrus. Malts are thin and almost irrelevant. Tart slightly sour red/brown finish. Drinkable.

Tried from Bottle on 12 Apr 2018 at 18:40


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Tried on 12 Apr 2018 at 18:37


7.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draught at BeerGeek Bar. Cloudy, amber colored. AROMA- sour, brett, fruity, grapes, berries, oak barrel. FLAVOR- neutral, quite sour, lightly tart, funky, fruity, tart berries, sour grapes, hay. Medium bodied.
Great.

Tried on 25 Mar 2018 at 19:30


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle. Pours reddy brown with a medium head. Aroma is sour dark red fruits and a little vinegar. Taste is very sharp and sour. Forest fruits. Fruity vinegar. A little ash.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2018 at 21:42


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle at home ... deep red brown ... small tan hea d... soft woody funk fruit nose ... light berries fruit .. soft woody funk .. earthy funk .. tart berries .. soft fruit ... soft fruit ... light tart fruit .. very earthy.. big funk .. big berries

Tried from Bottle on 15 Feb 2018 at 15:42