Gruit
Torchlight Brewing Co. in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Traditional Beer - Gruit Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.08
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Traditional Medieval Ale
Definitely not for everyone this ancient ale is sour and less carbonated than anything we drink today. The recipe is from the Middle Ages and the herbs used to make it were used before hops were discovered. Flavoured with things like mugwort, yarrow, meadowsweet, heather tips, and fermented with some brettanomyces this is definitely a strange taste experience and not for the wary. It's bottle conditioning and best when aged so putting it away to cellar will vastly improve its taste and carbonation.
Definitely not for everyone this ancient ale is sour and less carbonated than anything we drink today. The recipe is from the Middle Ages and the herbs used to make it were used before hops were discovered. Flavoured with things like mugwort, yarrow, meadowsweet, heather tips, and fermented with some brettanomyces this is definitely a strange taste experience and not for the wary. It's bottle conditioning and best when aged so putting it away to cellar will vastly improve its taste and carbonation.
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3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
22 oz. bottle, pours a murky dark reddish brown with a tiny white head. Aroma is nasty, with loads of phenols, nasty spices, and earthy notes. Flavour is very sour, with earthy notes dirt, disgusting spices and vomit. Absolutely disgusting shit. What would inspire this?
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2016
at 23:03
3.2/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 2
Hazy medium brown. Phenolic, and there is a lot of herbs, like rosemary and sage. Sour rosemary. So sour. Why it this so sour? Come on, we all know this isn’t what it’s supposed to taste like, what’s with selling this to people?
Tried
on 06 Sep 2016
at 23:02
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
Bottle - Lots of spice and cola notes. Dirty brown. Lightly soured Dr. Pepper and earthy Woody notes.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Sep 2016
at 23:02
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Tasting at Matt’s
Murky brown color, no head. Aroma of spicy cake, cinnamon. No carbonation, lemon acidity, some spices, cake.
Definitively weird, not completely bad.
Murky brown color, no head. Aroma of spicy cake, cinnamon. No carbonation, lemon acidity, some spices, cake.
Definitively weird, not completely bad.
Tried
on 06 Sep 2016
at 23:01