Strawberry Rhubarb Sour
Brewery Vivant in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Rotating|
Score
7.34
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Plein de Vie: Barrel-Aged Sour Ale
A Belgian-weiss beer soured in a melange of barrels and aged with Strawberries and Rhubarb. Usher in Spring with this light and bright sour ale. Take a bottle home to enjoy with friends.
A Belgian-weiss beer soured in a melange of barrels and aged with Strawberries and Rhubarb. Usher in Spring with this light and bright sour ale. Take a bottle home to enjoy with friends.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours a clear gold with an orange hue and a white head that dissipates quickly to the edges. Aroma has sour rhubarb with a light sweet raspberry and a touch of oak underlying. Flavor starts with sour rhubarb but has a growing sweet raspberry and a hint of sweet grain and oak backing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2020
at 20:26
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Last of a bottle at a share. Pours a dull, cloudy, orange color, with a big, bubbly, off-white head. The aroma is tart berries, vanilla, mild rhubarb, lime, and hay. Fairly sweet and mildly tart. Medium body, with a syrupy, acidic mouthfeel. This is a fun and tasty sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2018
at 16:45
7/10
Forgotten from last night, good balanced sour with a strawberry rhubarb nose and front.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2018
at 09:14
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours a hazy amber from a bottle. Nice strawberry rhubarb, vinegar aroma, similar flavor, nicely but not overly tart. Pretty good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jul 2018
at 23:29
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours faint pink, light head. The aroma of rhubarb, light berry, and sour grain. Taste is extremely light, weak rhubarb, mild berries, drying texture. Based on other beers from this brewery I thought this would be a train wreck. It kind of isn't. So cheers!
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Jun 2018
at 01:29
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
A hazed golden ale with a thin white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light strawberry notes, light acidity, light Brett, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with strawberry and light acidity, light Brett, very nice and smooth. Bottle at Dark Lord Day 2018.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2018
at 13:00
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Very nice beer. Aroma is mainly tart and natural strawberry flavor is like nose with some of the rhubarb added but very nicely balanced. The carbonation doesn't negatively affect the sourness and there's just the right amount of sugar in there too enhance things. Body is perhaps just a touch thin but not bad. Excellent finish.
Tried
on 27 Apr 2018
at 21:12
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle - pours gold white head - nose and taste of strawberry, oak, light wine, funk and rhubarb - medium body
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2017
at 22:29
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
375 mL bottle. Hazy orange, thin fizzy off-white head, decent retention. Aroma of pepper, rhubarb, tart berries. Taste is pepper, tart berries, tannic wine, rhubarb. Medium bodied, lingering tartness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jul 2017
at 18:41
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500 ml bottle into tulip glass, bottled in 4/2017. Pours slightly hazy medium golden/yellow/light orange color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy white head with good retention, that reduces to a thin lace cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big lightly tart lemon, lime, strawberry, rhubarb, pear, green apple, white wine, oak, hay, straw, herbal, grass, wheat, and cracker; with light vanilla, pepper, musty/leathery funk, and yeast/oak earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, fruit, oak barrel, and moderate pale malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big tart lemon, lime, strawberry, rhubarb, pear, green apple, white wine, oak, hay, straw, herbal, grass, wheat, and cracker; with light vanilla, pepper, musty/leathery funk, and yeast/oak earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tartness and yeast/tannic oak spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of tart lemon, lime, strawberry, rhubarb, pear, green apple, white wine, oak, hay, straw, herbal, grass, wheat, and cracker; with light vanilla, pepper, musty/leathery funk, and yeast/oak earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, fruit, oak barrel, and moderate pale malt flavors; with a fantastic malt/tartness balance, and zero puckering/astringent flavors after the finish. Moderate dryness from carbonation and acidity/tartness, increasing through the glass. Medium-high carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, crisp, moderately acidic/grainy, and lightly tannic balanced mouthfeel that is awesome. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is an awesome fruited sour ale! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruity/funky/acidic yeast, fruit, oak barrel, and moderate pale malt flavors; very smooth, crisp, and refreshing to drink; with the mellow acidity/tartness. Awesome balance between fruit, Brett, and Lacto flavors; with great oak presence and nice malt backbone. A highly enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2017
at 19:57