El Gourdo
Firestone Walker Brewing in Paso Robles, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Series Out of Production|
Score
7.30
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El Gourdo is what happens when the local pumpkin patch calls the Barrelworks on the day after Halloween, asking if we want orphaned Cinderella Pumpkins. Not only did we take the leftover pumpkins last year, we roasted them with bay leaf and walnuts in a wood-burning oven fueled by brandy staves and local white oak. We then tossed 500 lbs. of the caramelized gourds into an oak-aged base beer blend for fermentation and further oak barrel aging, lasting almost a year. The resulting beer is subtle yet firm. Roasting releases naturally sweet spicy pumpkin, brown sugar, and nutty flavors and aromas, which mingle nicely with an earthy funk, toasted oak and assertive acidity.
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5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Sample at SBWF 2018. Clear golden/orange with a small white head. Tart and rather vinous with cinnamon, pumpkin, wood and some grapes. The body was medium. I am not a fan of Pumpkin beers but this was almost an ok one.
Tried
on 06 Oct 2018
at 08:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375 c&c from the Venice venue. Pours coppery gold with a white head. Aroma is mild bay leaf. Near med body. Moderately sour. Flavor is bay leaf, wood that seems oak, and some walnut bitter that’s very light. Some brown sugar opposes the sour. Quite pleasing to me despite the fact that no one flavor is strong.
Tried
on 04 Jun 2018
at 19:10
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
A lightly hazed golden ale with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet caramel malt with light oxidation character, light mineral notes, OK but was expecting more. In mouth, a super tart sour ale with light mineral notes, light basil, light wooden notes, lingering acidity, very nice and tart. On tap at Propagator location.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jan 2018
at 14:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at the Firestone XX Release. Nose is tart, lightly funky, brown sugar, and a little pumpkin along with just a smidge of vanilla. Murky yellow with a medium white head. Flavor is nicely tart and mildly funky.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Oct 2016
at 22:18
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at 10K. Pours orange white head. Nose/taste of pumpkin, cinnamon spice, sour funk and oak. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2015
at 17:30
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle share courtesy of MrBrightside53. It pours with a near clear deep gold body that supports a light tan head. The aroma offers up earthy barnyard, earthy tartness, muted pumpkin, more citrus sourness and then an earthy tart fruitiness. The taste starts with punchy tart citrus like fruitiness and then it gets into more and more puckering acidic citrus notes. To midway and into the finish the various tart flavors seem to mix with mild and earthy pumpkin meat sensation. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2014
at 06:59