Adjunct Professor - Boysenberries
Sante Adairius Rustic Ales in Capitola, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Series Out of Production|
Score
7.46
|
|
Sign up to add a tick or review
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle. Pours black brown head. Nose/taste of boysenberry, tart berry acid, red wine, oak, roast chocolate, coffee and acid funk. Medium body.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Pours with a black body, purple highlights off white head. Roasty aromas that turn earthy and vegetal. Some mulberries, earthy, funky. Flavors are mildly sour, some accentuated tart notes fruit. Earthy, dry juicy. Medium tart. Roasty. Lively bubbles. Tart, fruity, vinous, mild tannin.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Thanks to Kyle for sharing this good beer. A sour black beer. Yeast in the aroma as well as roasted malt. Flavor is moderately sour and I can taste the wine, but not the berries specifically.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
750mL bottle, sent from futuraxz (thanks a Will), pours black with a medium tan head. Aroma brings out red wine barrels, almost a chilli pepper like scent, boysenberries, and some funk. Flavour is very rich, with loads of dry, tart boysenberries, a slightly chilli pepper like hotness, and dry red wine notes. Very slow sipper, due to the hotness and dry, vinous, tart qualities. Not the most drinkable beer, but it's quite elegant. Good stuff, just not that drinkable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle @ Matt’s house from our Reserve Society membership. Pours a deep brown appearance with a brown head. Red wine, dark chocolate, light berry, brownie aroma. Tangy, dark berry, chocolate, caramel, light vinegar, a bit funky, roasty flavor. Not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Trying batch 1 and 2 together. Pours black with a tiny bit of brown around the edges. Medium light brown head. Some lacing, good retention for a sour. The first batch has a mild aroma with an acidic berry edge, some soured roast fruitiness. Batch 2 has a lot more berry character and sweetness. It generally comes together better with more depth and complexity, adding in more chocolate and some coffee. Taste is similar for both versions. Batch 1 is pretty acetic and sour but lacks the richer stout and berry flavors of batch 2. The second batch has a wonderful mix of chocolate, roast, berries and sour. It all works together much better than I expected. Very tasty stuff. Mouthfeel is thin for batch 1 but fuller and fairly smooth for batch 2. The second batch us clearly superior at this point and is probably the best dark sour that I’ve tried.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared at SARA. Pours opaque deep brown, some ruddy redness, with a small brown head and some lacing. A bit light in coloration for an imperial stout. Aroma is all sour - tart cherries, woody notes, red wine characteristics. Very reminiscent of Consecration. MAYYYYYYBEEE some roasty in there if you look hard enough, but I can’t imagine that I would comment on it in a blind tasting. Really subtle stoutiness. Flavor is the same, medium tart and lightly sweet, obvious notes coming from the barrel give the beer a lot of character, nuance, and depth of character. This is a really nice beer. Unfortunately in this area a beer like this will always be compared to Russian River, and it is just not quite there.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Aroma is rather fruity with lots of ripe berry notes, more raspberry than blueberry. Some light oak and tannic, vinous aromas as well. Faint darker malt character and some moderate red wine notes. Pours a very murky brown with purple and red hues on the edges. Thick purplish red head that recedes quickly to the edges. Quite a bit of yeast and particulate matter; this is definitely a goopy beer. Flavor has some sweet berry jam notes upfront with some lighter dark malt character. Mid palate you get some vinous notes and a moderate amount of red wine. In the finish is a bit of tart berry character, light bitterness and a touch of astringency. Mouthfeel is medium full bodied with medium carbonation. It finishes fairly dry for it's body and isn't sticky at all. Low, but present astringency and medium low alcohol warmth. Overall an ugly beer but a pretty tasty one, especially if you like tart berries which I love. I really like the aroma and the flavor upfront, but the finishing note is a bit harsh as it lingers. There was almost an inch of sediment in this bottle. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone